Recently, the professor obtained more news about the new Toyota bZ series from relevant channels, and the news showed that in addition to the bZ4X jointly developed with Subaru, there are the remaining 4 pure electric models that will be jointly developed with Subaru and Daihatsu.
Toyota announced its goal of launching 30 electric vehicles worldwide by 2030, but not all of them were independently developed by Toyota. As we all know, Toyota is working very closely with subaru and Daihatsu, so in the face of the era of pure electric power, Toyota decided to jointly develop new cars with alliance manufacturers according to the characteristics and markets of their respective models.
In addition to Toyota's self-developed electric vehicles, medium-sized and large-size electric vehicles will cooperate with Subaru and Daihatsu, and small-sized electric vehicles will cooperate with Daihatsu.
The Toyota bZ4X, which has already been unveiled, is the same model created in conjunction with Subaru's SOLARRA, and will be the first to be launched this year. Although the two cars are roughly the same in terms of body, they give full play to the characteristics of their respective manufacturers in terms of detailed design and performance tuning.
It is worth mentioning that Lexus' new car, the RZ, is also built using the same platform and is expected to debut this year.
Although this bZ compact SUV has not been released for more information, according to foreign media reports, the new car will be used as a pure electric successor model for C-HR.
From the picture, this concept model does have a similar design to the C-HR in terms of styling, which is also the shape of a cross-level SUV, but the slipback shape is more sleek, more like a sedan heightened. The new car is expected to be unveiled in late 2022 or 2023.
The bZ SDN will most likely be launched as an alternative model to the Prius, but the Prius, as the forerunner of toyota hybrid models, is likely to continue to sell, after all, the hybrid model will not be eliminated in a short period of time.
The car will be developed in cooperation with Subaru, and from the perspective of size positioning, the closest model should be the Impreza, so it is likely that it will be launched as a pure electric version of the Impreza, but Subaru will definitely equip it with a four-wheel drive system.
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The bZ Large SUV is positioned as a medium-sized pure electric SUV, mainly for the North American and Chinese markets, and should be the largest model in the bZ series in terms of size. As a Toyota bZ model, the new car will be mainly a front-drive model, and if it is good enough in terms of space, then it will be very much in line with the tastes of the Chinese people. However, for pure electric models, the energy consumption of medium and large SUVs is higher than other models, and endurance may become a major difficulty.
The last is the bZ Small Crossover, a small crossover jointly developed by Toyota and Daihatsu, which uses the design concept of the Aygo Cross. From the concept map, the size of the new car is very small, and it may adopt the same front and rear door opening design as the Mazda RX-8.
Although this new car will soon be mass-produced, the professor believes that this model will most likely not introduce domestic sales, because its positioning is very close to the domestic Wuling Hongguang MINIEV, Chery Small Ant and other models, and the pure electric small and micro cars in the domestic market have been relatively saturated, and the price is certainly not as close as the domestic model.
Toyota has led other Japanese brands to start making efforts in the field of pure electricity, and there will be more pure electric new cars launched in the future, which will undoubtedly bring more pressure to all brands. In the era of pure electric, a little slack may be surpassed by other brands, so continuous research and development and updating is the way out of new energy!