At Toyota's electric vehicle strategy conference, Akio Toyoda unveiled 16 electric vehicles together, and built a huge electric vehicle empire overnight, catching everyone off guard. One of the 16 models, the Toyota bZ4X, was also handed over to FAW Toyota for production, which is the first pure electric medium-sized SUV launched by Toyota in the domestic market. At present, the car has made its world premiere (domestic version of bZ4X) in China, and announced that it will be launched in early 2022. So, what kind of SUV is the Toyota bZ4X? The first thing you have to understand is the naming rules of Toyota pure electric vehicles, which are based on the e-TNGA architecture, which is a model in the exclusive series of bZ pure electric vehicles, and the naming rules are bZ + numbers + letters, that is to say, Toyota new energy BEV series models are bZ at the beginning.
In terms of appearance design, Toyota bZ4X has the characteristics of electric vehicles, but it also retains some characteristics of Toyota fuel SUV, such as its side looks like the "shadow" of Toyota RAV4, but uses blue brake calipers to highlight its "identity" of pure electric vehicles. Its front face adopts a closed design, which looks like a pure electric car, the Toyota "bull's head" logo is moved up to the front hood, and the traditional lower grille is followed under the closed mid-mesh. Overall, the front face of Toyota bZ4X is similar to other electric vehicles, lack of recognition, the side is very "Toyota", very powerful, the wheel eyebrow also uses black decoration, appear domineering.
The rear part of the car, with the blue car logo to highlight its new energy vehicle "identity", through the tail light is now also very common, there is no very amazing feeling, there are two huge diffuser decorations on the black lower guard plate, which enhances the sense of movement of the rear. The exterior design of the Toyota bZ4X is still very conservative, not as radical as the new car-making forces, and it is more acceptable to most people.
In the interior part, you can still see the design ideas of Toyota fuel vehicles, Toyota bZ4X adopts a T-type center console design, the central control screen and the control knob on the front floor table share a blunt angle frame, and metal trims are used around to enhance the texture. Unlike other electric vehicles, the Toyota bZ4X retains the traditional button and knob design, without removing physical buttons or replacing them with touch buttons, which means it can be "blindly operated" and not easy to leave fingerprints. Its LCD dashboard size is not large, far from the position of the steering wheel, the central control screen size is very large, support satellite navigation, voice recognition control, CarPlay, Internet of Vehicles and OTA upgrades. In addition, the front deck of the Toyota bZ4X uses a double-deck design, and the ground floor is a huge storage compartment that can accommodate many items.
Toyota bZ4X's rear seat space and trunk volume are decent, not to say that it is very cramped, anyway, it is not very spacious. It also adopts a two-stage sunroof design, the front sunroof area is larger, the rear sunroof area is smaller, and the lighting rate is not as good as the panoramic sunroof.
At present, Toyota has not announced the power system of bZ4X, only announced that it will have X-MODE function, which is Toyota and Subaru jointly developed AWD electric four-wheel drive system, and equipped with Grip-Control intelligent multi-road adaptation system, which can be regarded as an all-terrain feedback system specially developed for electric motors, in order to play the characteristics of the motor and the ability of the electric four-wheel drive system to get out of trouble, through the ability, to find a balance between energy consumption and off-road. With an electric all-wheel drive system, it means that the Toyota bZ4X will provide front and rear dual-motor models. According to Toyota, the Toyota bZ4X front-drive model has a WLTC working range of 505km and supports a 150kW fast charging mode, which can be charged to 80% of the maximum power in 30 minutes. In addition, its battery pack is provided by the Ningde era. So, what do you think about the Toyota bZ4X?