Hybrid will not always mean efficient as Toyota turns the petrol-electric technology towards boosting performance in large models like the LandCruiser 300 Series.

Toyota Australia, having established its fuel-saving series-parallel hybrid vehicles, will now diversify the electric technology to showcase its performance applications.

While the hybrid systems found in the Corolla, Camry, Kluger, RAV4, and others fall into the Efficiency Hybrid bucket, designed to lower fuel consumption, there will now also be the Performance Hybrid moniker that uses electrification to increase outputs of the petrol engine.

The first Performance Hybrid has already arrived in the form of the Tundra pick-up, but a second model, the LandCruiser Hybrid, will arrive in showrooms from March next year.

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