The 2024 Alfa Romeo Tonale plug-in hybrid achieves an EPA-rated 33 miles of electrical vary with an effectivity ranking of 77 MPGe mixed, in addition to 29 mpg mixed gasoline financial system, the automaker introduced Wednesday.

Whereas Alfa Romeo is historically a efficiency model, it claims the Tonale plug-in hybrid is “probably the most environment friendly plug-in hybrid C-SUV within the section.” It is unclear what different automobiles the Alfa is being in comparison with, nevertheless.

2024 Alfa Romeo Tonale

The Tonale makes use of a 1.3-liter turbo-4 engine to energy its entrance wheels, with a belt starter-generator aiding and enabling extra intervention from its engine start-stop system. An electrical motor, fed by a 15.5-kwh battery pack, powers the rear wheels, giving the Tonale all-wheel drive. Whole system output is 285 hp and 347 lb-ft of torque—sufficient to get to 60 mph in an estimated 5.6 seconds, which is not a lot if any faster than the way more fuel-efficient Toyota RAV4 Prime.

The official electric-range ranking is a little more than the 30 miles Alfa estimated when it revealed the Tonale final 12 months. It is also simply above the 32 electrical miles used previously as a cut-off level for PHEVs to make Inexperienced Automobile Stories’ Greatest Automobile To Purchase shortlist, based mostly on national-average day by day commutes.

2024 Alfa Romeo Tonale

Transport to U.S. dealerships now, the Tonale is Alfa’s plug-in hybrid, and thus an essential step within the model’s aspiration to go all-electric inside the subsequent few years.

Alfa introduced in 2021 that as a model, it plans to go all-EV by 2027, though father or mother Stellantis mentioned on the time that Alfa would go EV-only in North America, China, and Europe, particularly. That leaves out the remainder of the world, however does cowl the most important world new-car markets. Alfa’s upcoming EVs are on account of be constructed on shared STLA platforms, additionally revealed in 2021, for use by different Stellantis manufacturers as nicely.