Toyota, the representative car company of Japanese cars, has finally taken a key step in the layout of new electric vehicles.
Recently, Toyota's first pure electric vehicle, the BZ4X, was officially launched, and the new car was priced at 42,000 US dollars (equivalent to about 267,000 yuan). The new car is based on the latest e-TNGA pure electric architecture and is the first model in Toyota's pure electric bZ series.
As Toyota's first new architecture electric model, BZ4X is also more radical in appearance design, completely abandoning the "family design language" of Toyota fuel vehicles, and the shadow of Toyota fuel vehicles cannot be seen on the appearance.
The new car has a length of 4690/1860/1650mm in length, width and height, and is a compact SUV in terms of body size, but its wheelbase has reached 2850mm, and toyota is expected to classify it as a mid-size pure electric SUV after the later release.
In terms of intelligence, it is equipped with Toyota's third-generation ToyotaSafetySense (Toyota Chi Heng Safety System) and provides basic L2-level driving assistance. It is equipped with mobileyeEyeQ4 autopilot chip, front-mounted monocular camera design, and 12 ultrasonic radars and millimeter-wave radars on the outside of the body.
In terms of highlight configuration, the new car is equipped with solar charging panels, which officially claim to provide toyota BZ4X with an additional range of 1800 kilometers per year.
In addition, Toyota's steer-by-wire technology is also mounted on this car, specifically, the Toyota BZ4X equipped with this technology, the steering operation is controlled within 150 degrees of the steering wheel, for many drivers, one-handed driving turnaround, will become easier.
In terms of power battery life, Toyota BZ4X is equipped with ternary lithium batteries, suppliers are Panasonic and Catalonia, of which the single motor version is equipped with Panasonic's 71.4kWh battery pack, and the dual motor is equipped with a 72.8kWh battery pack of Ningde era.
According to data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the single-motor version of CLTC has an endurance of 615 kilometers, and the dual-motor version provides two endurance versions of 500km and 560km. The maximum charging power is 150kW, and 0-80% of the power needs to be charged for 30 minutes.
In the power part, Toyota BZ4X has two versions of dual motor and single motor, the output power of single motor is 150kW (201 horsepower), and the dual motor is 80kW + 80kW (214 horsepower), which is more competitive than the mainstream models in the market.
In addition, in the domestic market, Toyota BZ4X has appeared in the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to declare, indicating that the car will also land in the domestic market in the near future. The emergence of Toyota BZ4X will form a competitive relationship with Volkswagen ID.4 and other models, and under the aura of Toyota's logo, whether it can compete with domestic BYD, Wei Xiaoli, Tesla, the later market will give the answer.