Recently, Toyota's new electric vehicle bz4X circle of friends advertising has aroused a lot of attention, so as Toyota's first model to officially launch the pure electric vehicle market, the first model of Toyota's new pure electric exclusive series, what is special about bz4X? Can toyota regain its former glory?
The exact time to market is still uncertain
The bz4X is the first model of Toyota's BZ pure electric exclusive series, and Toyota Motor officially released the specific information of the bZ4X on October 29 last year. According to the plan, the model will be the first to be released in China, Japan, the United States and Europe in the middle of this year.
According to the introduction, Toyota Motor will take the bZ4X as the starting point to comprehensively promote the continuous expansion of the BEV product lineup. It is also preparing to launch 7 pure electric vehicles of the "TOYOTA bZ" series by 2025, and the Chinese market is expected to import 5 of them, which will be the market with the largest introduction of this series of products.
The circle of friends advertising is also Toyota's first publicity of the model in China, but Toyota China's relevant people told Travel Finance: As of now, the specific listing time of bZ4X has not yet been determined.
Technology that Tesla didn't get in
Toyota bZ pure electric exclusive series means to achieve the value of "beyond Zero" beyond zero emissions, and at the same time puts forward the four core values of people and people, people and vehicles, people and nature, and people and society.
When it comes to the realization of the four core values, it is necessary to mention that Toyota has launched the new One Motion Grip technology for the first time on the bz4X. According to the introduction, through this technology, Toyota Motor will realize the combination of steer-by-wire and the special-shaped steering wheel for the first time, and the technology will be the first to be listed in China, and then introduced to other markets around the world.
It should be pointed out that the steer-by-wire system is considered to be a core technology that needs to be mastered urgently in future intelligent vehicles. Tesla, which has made outstanding achievements in the field of automatic driving, began to lay out the research of the switch-by-wire transformation system in the fourth quarter of 2020, and Tesla CEO Musk also publicly stated in June last year that Tesla's steer-by-wire steering system will take several years to enter the market. Therefore, we believe that Toyota's One Motion Grip technology will be the most significant representative of the intelligent technology of the BZ4X. It will help Toyota gain its market position in competition with new car-making forces such as Tesla and Xiaopeng.
The advantages of one Motion Grip
If you use a sentence to summarize what is the steer-by-wire steering: that is, the traditional way of relying on the steering pipe column to connect the steering mechanism to achieve steering is converted into a steering system that detects the steering wheel angle signal through sensors and drives the steering through the computer-controlled servo motor.
This design can completely eliminate the steering tube column, and even cancel the steering wheel in terms of reliability, so as to achieve the automatic driving level above L4, so the steer-by-wire steering system is also considered to be a necessary steering system for automatic driving.
This kind of steer-by-wire system was first applied to aircraft, and major car companies have also launched many concept cars that use steer-by-wire systems, such as Mercedes-Benz F400 Carving, BMW BMW Z22, Citroen C_Crosser, etc., but the real mass production has not yet.
The Toyota One Motion Grip is structured away from the mechanical connection between the steering wheel and the tires, giving the bz4X five competitive advantages over the competition.
First, the steering wheel rotation angle is set to ± 150 °, without changing hands and wheels can complete the steering operation, which greatly reduces the driver's operating burden when making a U-turn, entering the warehouse, driving in curves, etc.
Second, through the independent control of the direction of steering torque and wheel angle, improve the sense of control. In conjunction with the selected driving mode, the characteristics of the steering device are changed.
Third, block the unnecessary vibration caused by the tire, and only convey the necessary information such as the state of the road surface. Control the movement of the tires when passing uneven roads, or when driving lane tracking assist, to ensure the safety of the vehicle.
Fourth, the One Motion Grip expands legroom, increasing driver's seat freedom and ease of getting on and off.
Fifth, the knob type shift (Toyota's first time), the operation is more intuitive and simple.
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