Remember the scenario in September in which Akio Toyoda angrily denounced the development of electric vehicles would ruin the Japanese economy and reiterated that the development of hydrogen vehicles is the real future? Just three months later, Toyota President resolutely and resolutely killed his relatives, released 15 pure electric new cars in one go, even Evergrande Automobile, which had previously become a big joke in the Chinese car circle, at most released 6 to 7 models at a time, it seems that Toyota Akio decided to make himself the destroyer of the Japanese economy for environmental protection and the future of the earth this time, which is commendable.
As for the conference itself, because in addition to the bZ4X, which has been unveiled for a long time and is about to enter the production process, all other cars are just a model, and there is not much to say, and there is not even a beautiful promotional video and PPT at the Evergrande conference, so this article is just a rough list of models, let's take a look.
In addition to the bZ4X, Toyota brought four other bZ series concept cars this time, of which the bZ Compact SUV looks like a crossover coupe pure electric SUV, and the fashion attributes are full. The bZ Small Crossover, as the name suggests, is a small crossover, and it is rumored that the car will be built by a joint venture between BYD and Toyota, and BYD will be mainly responsible for development and manufacturing.
The third model is the bZ SDN, which is a pure electric sedan, which is not large in terms of size, and should be positioned similar to the Tesla Model 3 to compete for the same market. The last model is the bZ Large SUV, which, as the name suggests, is positioned as a medium-sized pure electric SUV that will have a 7-seat layout and should be closer to the Volkswagen ID.6 series.
In addition, this time Toyota also brought the Lifestyle series of electric vehicles, unlike the bZ series at least looks like a new design, Lifestyle is more of a modification and evolution of the previous classic model. Among them, the Toyota Sports EV positioning k-car class sports car can be seen as a pure electric version of the S2000. As a crossover SUV model, the Crossover EV has a slight difference in design style from the bZ series.
The third Small SU EV clearly positions the all-electric version of the Aygo X and is the smallest all-electric SUV toyota has announced so far. The Toyota Compact Cruiser EV is very similar to the FJ Cruiser model at first glance, and at the same time adopts a four-door design, which should be a pure electric version of the Cruiser series. As for the Pickup EV, it is obviously a pure electric pickup truck model, which has many counterparts in the Toyota family. The Micro Box and Mini Box are two Van models with Japanese characteristics, focusing on small size, large space, and outstanding functionality.
Finally, Toyota also brought four Lexus pure electric vehicles, one of which is built with the e-TNGA platform, which can obviously be seen as a finely decorated version of bZ4X, in the case of close side contours, the use of Lei's exclusive pure electrified front face and rear shape, but in terms of details, can you find out the shadow of bZ4X, the relationship between the two is very clear.
In addition, the three concept cars are the Electrified SUV, which is equivalent to a larger version of the RZ, which looks like a thunder car version of the Audi Q5 e-tron. The Electrified Sedan, as the name suggests, is a four-door coupe, which should be the thunder car version of the Toyota bZ SDN model released at the same time. Finally, even more notable is the Electrified Sport model, which features standard sports car-style lines and is seen by fans as another spiritual sequel to the LFA sports car.
Since there really isn't much information, there's only a lot of speculation about the 15 models themselves, which are boring names and positioning. In addition, Toyota also announced that by 2023, the entire group will launch a total of 30 pure electric models on the market, with global sales of 3.5 million vehicles. By 2023, Lexus will have pure electric models covering all market segments, with sales targets of 1 million units in Europe, North America and China. By 2035, 100% of all Lexus models are pure electric vehicles, which is obviously more radical than many early overseas manufacturers, which shows the determination of Dayi to kill relatives.
In response, Toyota said that by 2023, it will invest an additional $17.6 billion in battery production, more than three times more than the previous 4.4 billion, and finally achieve toyota and Lexus dual brands carbon neutrality in 2035. In the face of this Evergrande temperament of the new car conference, of course, can not simply draw the two companies equal, after all, Toyota is still the world's largest car manufacturer, and Evergrande has not built a car before. Therefore, many fans claim that Toyota has already made plans, which is a curve to save the country in the case that hydrogen energy cannot achieve the expected effect.
But if this is the case, why did it angrily rebuke the Japanese government and regard the electrification routes of other car companies as grass? At the same time, when the global sales of Volkswagen ID series pure electric vehicles exceed 1 million in 2022 or 23, how many models of Toyota's more than a dozen concept cars released this time can be mass-produced? We can only wait and see how it will perform.