Minivans shift to hybrid, besides Honda Odyssey

• The redesigned Kia Carnival has a hybrid possibility with an anticipated 36 mpg vary
• Customary as a hybrid, the Toyota Sienna will get 36 mpg or 35 mpg with all-wheel drive
• The Chrysler Pacifica is the one plug-in hybrid minivan, with a 32-mile electrical vary. 

The variety of minivans on sale within the U.S. has shrunk, however the remaining cohort is on the entire fairly environment friendly. Each minivan besides one—the mildly replace 2025 Honda Odyssey—now gives a hybrid or plug-in hybrid powertrain, the truth is.

2024 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid

Chrysler Pacifica

• Hybrid powertrain possibility: Plug-in hybrid with 260-hp 3.6-liter V-6, two-motor hybrid system; 16-kwh battery pack, FWD
• MPG: 32 miles of all-electric vary at 82 MPGe mixed; 30 mpg mixed in hybrid mode
• PHEV beginning worth: $52,750

Launched for the 2017 mannequin 12 months, the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid stays the only real plug-in hybrid minivan accessible. And it lives as much as expectations in a approach few different plug-in hybrids do, permitting households to use it as a completely electrical car for shorter each day journeys round city and as a fuel-efficient hybrid on highway journeys. The Pacifica Hybrid additionally nonetheless qualifies for the complete $7,500 federal tax credit score beneath stricter new guidelines launched in 2024.

Kia Carnival

• Hybrid powertrain possibility: 242-hp 1.6-liter turbo-4, 54-kw electrical motor; 1.4-kwh battery pack; FWD
• MPG: TBD
• Hybrid beginning worth: $41,895

The 2025 Kia Carnival Hybrid brings a hybrid powertrain to Kia’s minivan for the primary time. Launched with a mid-cycle revamp of the Carnival that additionally consists of tech upgrades and completely different styling, the powertrain is just like the one used within the 2025 Kia Sorento Hybrid crossover, which additionally will get a facelift for the brand new mannequin 12 months. EPA estimates aren’t accessible but, however the Kia Carnival Hybrid ought to land close to the Sorento Hybrid’s 36 mpg mixed.

Toyota Sienna

• Customary hybrid powertrain: 245-hp 2.5-liter inline-4, two-motor hybrid system; 6.5 Ah battery pack; FWD or AWD
• MPG: 36 mpg mixed (front-wheel drive), 35 mpg mixed (all-wheel drive)
• Beginning worth: $39,080

The Sienna acquired an ordinary hybrid powertrain with its most up-to-date design for the 2021 mannequin 12 months. It is not a plug-in hybrid just like the Pacifica Hybrid, however does supply the choice of all-wheel drive, which also needs to show a distinguishing issue in opposition to the newly launched Kia Carnival Hybrid that appears set to match its 36-mpg EPA mixed ranking.

Honda Odyssey

• Fuel powertrain: 280-hp 3.6-liter V-6, 10-speed computerized transmission, front-wheel drive
• MPG: 22 mpg mixed
• Beginning worth: $43,315

The 2025 Honda Odyssey receives a minor refresh of styling and know-how options, however the updates do not contact the powertrain. That leaves the Odyssey, which was final redesigned for the 2018 mannequin 12 months, because the final minivan with out an accessible hybrid powertrain. Honda is concentrating on 50% hybrid gross sales, and plans to make hybrid variations of all of its core fashions, so an Odyssey hybrid could also be sooner or later product queue, although.