Suzuki looks set to become the next big household name to go electric, revealing a new concept car called eVX. It previews what will become the Japanese brand’s first fully-electric car, which will be launched in 2025. 

How much of Suzuki’s reputation for cheap and cheerful small SUVs with genuine off-road capability - think the Vitara and the Jimny - will translate into the new model is not yet known, though the brand is certainly promising some of that.According to Suzuki, the eVX combines its “strong 4x4 DNA with the advanced features of the latest BEVs [battery electric vehicles].”

 The latter part of that suggests it certainly won’t be a barebones, agricultural off-road electric car, and we can expect a certain degree of passenger car civility. But it makes no bones about the fact it intends for this newcomer to deliver what it calls a “true Suzuki driving experience.”

No technical details have been confirmed, save for a suggested battery capacity of 60kWh and a range of up to 341 miles - though under the Indian MIDC standard suitable for the crowds at the car’s introduction, at this year’s Delhi Auto Expo.

The talk of 4x4 DNA confirms that four-wheel-drive versions of the eVX will be available while we’d expect more affordable, single-motor options too. But whether it will use a Suzuki-developed electric platform is not yet known. The brand does have a technical partnership with Toyota, which it could lean on to develop or leverage the necessary technology to produce the eVX. 

Beyond that, the eVX is all about teasing the design of the new car we’ll see in two years, and Suzuki has published some dimensions. At 4,300mm long, with a width of 1,800mm and a height of 1,600mm, it’s roughly the same size as the Hyundai Kona Electric, Peugeot e-2008 and the Renault Megane E-Tech Electric. Though it’s taller than all of these cars, and evidently chunkier looking. 

Suzuki says it is designed to be “instantly recognisable” as one of its SUVs, though it looks quite unlike anything else the marque has ever produced. That can only be a tacit acknowledgement of the jacked up styling with strong body cladding around the wheel arches and the purposeful looking front and rear bash plates. 

There’s no indication to how close-to-production the design is, but the concept’s interior remains under wraps. We expect a fair amount of toning down of the concept car looks when the covers come off the production car in 2025.