Toyota for us, should also be regarded as a bias to be stable and conservative and more principled brand, every step it has taken is steady, steady, but it is such a brand, last night actually broke the ground to carry out a wave of "raids", while releasing a total of 15 concept models including Toyota and Lexus two brands, such a release volume should not only be Toyota's first time, or even the first time in the history of the entire automotive industry, even Hengchi, which was once released in a high profile, had to bow to the wind.
This release is actually about Toyota's strategy in electric vehicles, and the new models released, without exception, are all concept cars, and all are pure electric concept cars, previewing the future models of Toyota and Lexus, which shocked the entire automotive industry. And the 15 models released this time are also quite rich, including common cars, SUVs, sports cars and even pickup trucks, commercial vehicles, automatic shuttle buses, compact trucks and so on. Of course, in addition to the release of the model, the biggest significance of this conference is that Toyota has basically determined the future development direction.
Toyota plans to invest more than $35 billion in research and development in the new energy sector in the future, including $17.6 billion in batteries, which is much more than the previously announced $4.4 billion. At the same time, the product plans to launch 15 bZ series models by 2025, and the first model is the bZ4X that has been unveiled in China, which will be officially launched in 2022, and 5 bZ series cars will continue to be introduced into the domestic market in the future. By 2030, Toyota plans to reach 30 global new energy models, and the sales of new energy vehicles will account for 75%, with a total global sales volume of 3.5 million units.
Of course, in addition to the Toyota brand, its high-end brand Lexus will also make major changes. According to the plan, Lexus will become a pure electric vehicle brand, planning to achieve 100% pure electrification in Europe, North America and China by 2030, and extend the pure electrification target to the world by 2035. The first pure electric model of the Lexus brand has also been tentatively designated as RZ, and will share the e-TNGA platform with Toyota bZ4x and Subaru Solterra in 2022 as a mass version of the LF-Z electrification concept
In addition to this RZ, Lexus shows many models, including a rather handsome two-door sports car that attracts everyone's attention. According to Akio Toyoda, this new sports car incorporates a lot of the concept of the legendary Lexus supercar LFA in the past, although it is pure electric, and it is reported that in terms of performance, this sports car will be faster than most of today's supercars, the acceleration of 100 kilometers can be about 2 seconds, in addition, electric vehicles may be equipped with solid-state battery technology, even if there is such performance support, but the mileage is expected to exceed 700 kilometers. Of course, it is still the concept stage, and it is still unknown how much this car will be retained in the end.
In the end, we may as well summarize the beautiful picture of these 15 cars, and also hope that these cars, especially those we may have missed in the past, like the Toyota FJ style of the car, in a pure electric way to resurrect, may also become our future goal ah.
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