How many generations of the Toyota Prius have been produced as of 2024?
Answer
5 generations
As of 2024, Toyota had produced five generations of the Prius.
The first-generation Prius, designated XW10, launched in Japan in 1997 and reached international markets afterward. Toyota redesigned the car as the second-generation XW20 for 2003, followed by the XW30 in 2009. The fourth-generation XW50 arrived for the 2016 model year, bringing the Prius onto Toyota’s TNGA platform.
The fifth generation, coded XW60, was unveiled in November 2022 and went on sale in 2023. It remained the current Prius generation during 2024. In addition to conventional hybrid versions in some markets, this generation included a plug-in hybrid variant, known in North America as the Prius Prime before Toyota changed the name to Prius Plug-in Hybrid for the 2025 model year.
A frequent counting mistake is to treat the Prius Prime or Prius Plug-in Hybrid as a separate generation. Those are powertrain or model variants within Prius generations, not additional generations. The Prius family also includes related derivatives such as the Prius c and Prius v, but they do not increase the generation count of the standard Prius.