Toyota/Lexus released 16 electric vehicles in one go today, looking at the formation MoMo also thought that Evergrande Automobile was resurrected??? This should be the largest concept car launch in history, what happened, MoMo first to briefly sort out.
At a press briefing on the electric vehicle strategy, President Akio Toyoda presented 16 electric concept cars, previewing future models for Toyota and Lexus, and will launch a total of 30 all-electric vehicles by 2030, with a goal of selling 3.5 million vehicles worldwide.
In terms of Lexus, by 2030, electric vehicles will cover the full range and become an electric vehicle brand in China, Europe and North America, with the goal of annual sales of 1 million vehicles. By 2035, lexus will sell all electric vehicles.
To achieve these goals, Toyota has pledged to invest 2 trillion yen ($17.6 billion/112 billion RMB) in battery production by 2030, 500 billion yen ($4.4 billion/28 billion yuan) more than previously announced.
The 16 electric vehicles released this time include everything you can imagine in all levels, categories, and uses, from city cars, cars, SUVs and pickups, and even supercars.
At the press conference, Toyota divided the car into two types - low-carbon vehicles (HEV hybrid, PHEV plug-in hybrid, etc.), and carbon-neutral vehicles (BEV pure electric, FCEV fuel cell vehicles, etc.), and said toyota will do its best to achieve the latter. Both Toyota and Lexus have hopes of becoming carbon neutral by 2035.
This latter is toyota's newly released bZ series, bZ is the abbreviation of "beyond ZERO", the code name of the pure electric series, which means that Toyota wants to achieve the value of "beyond zero emissions".
All bZ series will be based on the e-TNGA architecture, including:
The bZ4X, the only production car, Toyota brought the first launch of the bZ4X concept car as early as the Shanghai Auto Show in April, positioning similar to the RAV4.
One of the highlights is that in addition to the ordinary circular steering wheel, it also adopts a rectangular rudder similar to an airplane, equipped with steer-by-wire, which can adjust the steering ratio according to the speed of the vehicle.
At the end of October, the mass-produced version of the bZ4X was officially released, and the GAC Toyota version of the bZ4X was unveiled at the guangzhou auto show that lasted. In addition to the Chinese market, the bZ4X will also be sold in Europe, North America and other markets this year, and is expected to start delivery in 2022.
bZ Small Crossover, a small crossover.
The bZ Compact SUV, the compact SUV, although the bZ4X also belongs to the compact class, but obviously the bZ Compact SUV is more sporty, the shape is similar to the C-HR, and the design of the side skirt and rear wheel arch are very similar.
The bZ Large SUV, a large SUV, should theoretically be a pure electric Highlander, but since it is called "Large", it should be larger than the Highlander level.
The bZ SDN, a sedan, looks small in size, not like a pure electric Camry, but more like a pure electric Corolla.
In addition to the bZ series, there are some specially positioned and used vehicles:
Toyota Compact Cruiser EV, electric compact cruiser, car as the name suggests, look at the size should be Jeep Freeman that level, electric small off-road, a bit of meaning.
Toyota Electric Truck, an electric pickup truck, is obviously Tacoma's oil-to-electric, positioning a medium-sized pickup truck, one level smaller than The Tantu.
Micro box, the box car is coming, the vehicle is minimized, the space is maximized, this is what the electric car should look like, the small box car front also has a two-dimensional code, may be involved in the rental industry.
Mid box, the middle box, larger in size, with blind windows, it seems to be used back to the original, should involve the logistics industry. Positioning similar to their own Town Ace or Nissan NV200 (NV200 alternative model called Town Star, Toyota called Ace, Nissan called Star, and really a good friend)
There is also an e. in the upper right corner of the official picture. Palette, electric minibus, is not driverless is unknown, but did not appear in the press conference.
The Toyota GR Sports Concept, a GR high-performance electric sports car, a mid-engine-style coupe, is expected to bear the MR2 designation, and Gazoo Racing will undertake chassis tuning. Rumors of resurrecting mr2 have been circulating online for years, and although Toyota Vice President europe Matt Harisson called the fourth-generation MR2 "not a priority," the concept car was like a reassuring pill for fans.
There are also two that can't be understood, Small SU EV, because it is still in the concept stage, I don't know what the positioning difference is with bZ Small Crossover.
The Crossover EV, a crossover electric vehicle, does not see any information from the name alone, and may be similar to the positioning of ciltry C5X Versailles.
The positioning of the four Lexus models is still relatively clear:
LEXUS Electrified SUV, Electrified SUV, Toyota bZ Large SUV Hardcover FaceLift. Since it is specifically marked as "electrified" instead of "pure electric (EV)", it must indicate that the car is hybridized into infrastructure, or derived from a pure electric version.
Lexus Sedan, a Lexus sedan, found that the lexus naming is also very arbitrary, this is good, even the EV word is not, look at the size should be an electric IS.
Lexus RZ, Lexus version of the bZ4X, looks like an RX, but is actually compact. The RZ is also the second model close to mass production in the concept car released this time, and the tail tag has been officially announced - the RZ 450e, which will be officially unveiled in 2022.
Lexus Sports Battery EV, LFA The LFA is definitely the top sports car that can enter the history of human sports cars, especially the 4.8L V10 1LR-GUE engine developed and tuned by Yamaha, which is the biggest highlight of LFA.
Although the electric LFA does not have the sound of 1LR-GUE, but there is a sound self-hey, I guess there will definitely be an analog sound of the LFA after mass production.
In the face of the rolling trend of electric vehicles, the car companies that are most unmoved should be Toyota.
President Akio Toyoda has said in an interview that electric vehicles are being over-publicized, and that advocates of electric vehicles have failed to take into account the carbon emissions from power generation and the cost of excessive fuel to electric. Japan alone will cost $135-358 billion in infrastructure to fully convert electric vehicles, and there will be a shortage of electricity.
"When politicians say , 'We're going to phase out fuel cars,' do they understand these issues?" Japan is too hasty in banning the sale of fuel vehicles, and the business model of the existing auto industry will collapse, causing millions of people to lose their jobs. ”
Some people say that this is short-sightedness, I don't necessarily see it, after all, as the world's earliest and only hybrid and hydrogen fuel cells to promote and mass production of enterprises, Marai has come to the second generation of mass production models, you can say that Toyota is stubborn, even stubborn, but how to be short-sighted.
I don't know if the president has regrets, regret not to share the hybrid technology earlier, even today, the difficulty of hybrid is still too large, the world's hybrid energy is still very few. Honda has just caught up in recent years, there are very few GM and modern hybrid models on the market, the European hybrid is even more miserable, not to mention the strong mix, like Mercedes-Benz so far even 48V light mix can not understand, the failure rate is extremely high. Hybridization equals no universality at all, and the result of a monopoly is that the whole world does not play according to your standards. To put it bluntly, money can't make you Toyota earn it alone.
Toyota's 180-degree change in attitude towards pure electricity may be within the plan or may be forced by policy pressures.
Since Toyota really wants to play electric vehicles, then we naturally have nothing to worry about, after all, as the only car company in the world that can play with hybrid and hydrogen fuel, the most important thing is technology.