In recent years, BYD in the domestic mix is the wind and water, who can think of a car company that started by selling mobile phone batteries, buying the Qinchuan automobile production line to produce cottage flower crowns, can become the leader of domestic new energy vehicles, not only its own technical strength is excellent, model sales are rising, but also attracted many companies and BYD joint venture factories, we are familiar with Denza Automobile is Mercedes-Benz and BYD jointly controlled car companies, and BYD and Toyota have also begun to cooperate in the past few years, but have not produced new cars, But with Toyota releasing 16 pure electric models in one go last year, many people began to speculate that the joint venture between BYD and Toyota may be "coming to life"!
Recently, some netizens broke out a set of spy photos, this car from the appearance is Toyota's bZ SDN, this car is based on Toyota's latest e-TNGA architecture to build a new energy model, will use BYD's three electric technology, and is produced by BYD Toyota Joint Venture, that is to say, this car is a Toyota standard BYD model, and this is also BYD's second OEM production model after Denza.
At present, through the spy photos, the road test vehicle has been highly similar to the spy car released by Toyota, coupled with the words BYD car on the work order posted with the car, it can basically be determined that it is bydy OEM's bZ SDN, this car positioning is A+ class new energy car, the model positioning is similar to Toyota's own Asiatic Lion, but there is no small difference in technology and size, this car belongs to the small body large wheelbase, the space performance is expected to be in line with the B-class car.
First of all, we can see through the front face, the headlights part and the concept car the same as the use of concave design, the light group around the complex shape, although after a certain degree of camouflage, but it is not difficult to see that the light group part is more concave than the front of the cover, in the concept car, such a design more highlights the sense of movement, in addition to the lower part of the protruding front lip is basically consistent with the concept car, from the front face can be judged that it is bZ SDN road test.
There are several details on the side that expose its identity, first of all, the lines on the side of the body are basically consistent with the bZ SDN concept car, such as the recessed part under the rear door, which is basically the same as the concept car, and the rear wheel arch and the fender shape are also raised, highlighting the same muscle feeling as the concept car. The shape of the rear C-pillar and small window basically continues the design of the concept car, and here you can basically hammer this car belongs to the identity of Toyota bZ SDN.
The tail design is also basically in line with the concept car shape, which belongs to the typical coupe style, the tail box back cover is very small, but also highlights the concept of large wheelbase of the small body, the size is 4725/1835/1475mm, the wheelbase is 2880mm, and it is equipped with 225/50 R18 wheels. This information is displayed on the on-board ticket.
What is more gratifying is that the spy photo also exposed part of the design of the interior, the entire interior design is relatively simple and atmospheric, the center console a straight line from left to right through, it is estimated that the through-type air outlet is also used, the large screen does not use BYD's rotating screen, but a large size vertical screen, the dashboard position is very front, quickly pasted to the windshield, this design is rare. In addition, the rotary gear shift, the double-layer center console can also be seen in the photo.
The power system is more regrettable, can not see how much power, basically can refer to the Same level of models such as Qin PLUS EV, of course, do not rule out Toyota to customize a set of powertrain, parameters and battery capacity are different, but BYD's three-electric system is still trustworthy.
Summary: The marriage between BYD and Toyota represents the combination of the two giants of the new and old in the automobile industry, not only in the Chinese market, in the future, BYD will use Toyota's global automobile empire to expand, and Toyota can also get BYD's technical support, which is currently a win-win situation. (Text/Univision Auto Haoyang)
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