There's a technical tie-up going on between Japanese automakers Suzuki and Toyota right now, although here we're not seeing the fruits of those labours.

Principally, that's because Toyota – by far the bigger partner in this relationship – has historically taken the lead in this automotive dance and provided its vehicles to Suzuki for rebadging: witness the RAV4 becoming the Across, and the Corolla morphing into the Swace.

However, we get neither of those two repurposed Toyotas from Suzuki Australia. But this car, Suzuki's first-ever mass-produced electric vehicle (EV), is the new e-Vitara . And this time around, Toyota will be borrowing Suzuki's work to create the Urban Cruiser from the same basic building blocks.

Nothing will be straightforward for the Suzuki e-Vitara, though

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