Auto-First | Zhang Chi
In March, Beijing's spring is cold, but the apricot blossoms in Xishan have quietly bloomed. Unlike the early apricot blossom, Toyota's pure electric platform car bZ4X is late, but it incorporates Toyota's latest understanding of pure electric vehicles, which is obviously not to be underestimated.
The bZ4X is expected to be listed at the Beijing Auto Show, although there are still some days to go, but FAW Toyota's related warm-up has been started, at the end of March, the country's first licensed bZ4X completed the debut from Xishan National Forest Park to Waterfront Park Landscape Avenue, a total of about 20 kilometers.
This exclusive electric model of the bZ series, which was first launched by FAW Toyota, does not play the black technology card or the cost-effective brand, but is positioned as "people-oriented advanced". bZ is an abbreviation for "beyond Zero", which is interpreted as the concept of providing consumers with the value of Zero Emission.
bZ4X is based on the exclusive platform of pure electricity, with typical short front and rear suspension characteristics, it seems that the body is not wide, but sitting in the car has a large contrast, the front and rear space is surplus, 2850mm of intermediate car wheelbase, can achieve a distance of 1 meter between front and rear passengers. Two people with a height of 1.8 meters, sitting in the front and back rows, did not feel cramped. The flat chassis of the pure electric platform makes the floor feel at home, coupled with the moderate front wrapping and the comfortable seats at the rear elevation angle, which makes people feel like a spring breeze, and the people-oriented design concept of bZ4X ergonomics can be seen.
Unlike other traditional fuel vehicles or new power models, the bZ4X's short front suspension, coupled with the height of the seats in the car, the normal driving posture, almost can not see the "machine cover" in front of the car, good vision greatly increases the driver's confidence, plus the short rear suspension, let people enjoy the space of the big car, but also experience the ease of opening of the car.
This is Toyota's unique understanding of car design, bZ4X body shape as a whole is more youthful, not pleasing to the traditional sense of the large body, but the actual presentation of the internal space is not small, which is probably also in line with the young consumers to highlight the personality, not conventional concept.
The 20-kilometer journey, including the West Fifth Ring Road, Lianshi West Road and River Embankment Road, these cities paved the way, the bZ4X is very Toyota and very subaru.
Since the e-TNGA platform that gave birth to the bZ4X was jointly developed by Toyota and Subaru, using the excellent technology of both brands, in the field of urban SUVs, Subaru is almost the handle of off-road performance in its segment, its off-road KNOW HOW is highlighted on the bZ4X, in addition to the car's perception system includes intelligent driving and Subaru sharing, intelligent driving system has been upgraded to the latest TSS3.0 version.
At present, there is no official announcement of the power parameters of the car, in fact, most of the electric vehicle acceleration performance can meet the needs of consumers, in the front and rear dual motors, intelligent four-wheel drive mode, bZ4X power output appears to be within the range of income, people and vehicles, normal and small limit range, it can definitely give you the strength you want.
Because it is based on a pure electric platform, the chassis of the bZ4X is complete, giving people a feeling of Toyota rather than Toyota, and the road feedback transmitted is more rigid and solid, which has a good echo with its dynamic appearance. Because this test drive did not set an off-road distance, the bZ4X's multi-road adaptation system X-MODE and Grip-Control such as intelligent distribution of wheel torque have no opportunities to play, and these very "Subaru" places are probably its future killer skills.
Although bZ4X does not take the "black technology flow" of new forces, but its advanced technology beneficial to users is not much at all, of which the solar charging dome, so that it has a cool feeling, when the vehicle is static, solar energy can charge the power battery, when the car is in motion, solar energy can charge 12V power supply, for the use of electrical equipment in the car, according to reports, the energy absorbed each year can be used by the vehicle to travel about 1800 kilometers, plus the vehicle energy recovery system, so that bZ4X properly becomes an open source throttling expert.
bZ4X interior design spent a lot of thought, its dashboard is closer to the front windshield, so that the driver in the observation of the instrument and the road view of the switching amplitude is smaller, more conducive to safety, in addition to the rear mirror can do video and flat mirror mode switching, wireless charging can be opened, closed, woven material trim, etc., all these details or for safety considerations or for the comfort and convenience of the driver and passengers, flashy configuration in this car is difficult to see, it is these subtleties that make bZ4X people-oriented positioning fall into practice.
Easy to open, intimate, practical, reassuring, people-oriented sense of technology, is the auto-first brief contact with bZ4X the most intuitive feeling, it does not use the coolest technology and fancy configuration bo eyeballs, and with the confidence of the big brand let you feel that it moisturizes the silent good. It's hard to say that the bZ4X will be a blockbuster, but it must not be a vulgar weapon.