Toyota's first pure electric vehicle came a little late: Toyota bZ4X, priced at $42,000 (equivalent to about 267,000 yuan), based on the latest e-TNGA pure electric architecture research and development, is the first model of Toyota's pure electric bZ series. Maximum range of 615 km, maximum charging power 150kW, 0-80% charging time 30 minutes. In terms of intelligence, it is equipped with Toyota's third-generation Toyota Safety Sense (Toyota Intelligent Travel Safety System) and provides basic L2-level driving assistance.
Looking at the data alone, Toyota fired the first shot of electrification transformation, which is too ordinary and conservative.
Why is it worth paying attention to such a pure electric vehicle with ordinary data?
Very simply, in addition to being the pioneering work in the field of pure electric power, Toyota bZ4X is more important, behind the bZ4X, Toyota is conservative in the transformation of electrification and intelligence.
How about the first model?
Let's start with intelligent configuration.
Toyota bZ4X is equipped with Toyota's third-generation Toyota Safety Sense (Toyota Smart Travel Safety System), hardware configuration, equipped with Mobileye EyeQ4 autopilot chip, front-facing monocular camera design, the outside of the body equipped with 12 ultrasonic radar and millimeter wave radar.
At the functional level, basic L2 level intelligent driving functions can be implemented, including lane keeping and ACC adaptive cruise.
In terms of three-electric system, the Toyota bZ4X has two versions, dual motor and single motor, with a single motor output power of 150kW (201 hp) and a dual motor power arrangement of 80kW + 80kW (214 hp).
Toyota bZ4X is equipped with ternary lithium batteries, suppliers are Panasonic and CATL, of which the single-motor version is equipped with Panasonic's 71.4KWh battery pack, and the dual-motor is equipped with the CATL era 72.8kWh battery pack.
In terms of cruising range, according to the data of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the single-motor version CLTC has a range of 615 kilometers, and the dual-motor version provides two endurance versions of 500km and 560km.
The Toyota bZ4X has a maximum charging power of 150kW, and 0-80% of the power needs to be charged for 30 minutes.
In terms of appearance design, Toyota bZ4X adopts the gridless design commonly used by pure electric vehicles, and the body side, the line sense of Toyota bZ4X is more rigid, and the slipback design of the D-pillar position is more obvious.
In terms of size, the Toyota bZ4X is a compact SUV, but it is larger than the size of the same class, and the data shows that the Toyota bZ4X is 4690 mm long, 1860 mm wide, 1650 mm high, and has a wheelbase of 2850 mm.
The dimensions of the vehicle leave a relatively large space redundancy for the cabin, with an overall cabin length of 1940 mm, a width of 1515 mm and a maximum height of 1169 mm.
Cabin interior design, Toyota bZ4X front row in the middle of the use of central control large screen design, map navigation, in-car entertainment system and comfort operation can be completed through the large screen.
Most importantly, the price:
At present, the car has been listed in the United States, and the local price is 42,000 US dollars (equivalent to 267,000 yuan) - 48,780 US dollars (equivalent to 311,000 yuan), positioning the middle and high-end.
Paper data is decent compared to the new pure electric vehicles at the same price point at the moment.
At the level of intelligent driving, it is not competitive, and the official positioning of this car is mainly focused on the evaluation dimensions of traditional cars such as space, comfort and off-road passability.
Referring to the classic models of the past, yes, this is very Toyota.
But not without highlights:
The first is the solar charging panel on the roof, which can charge the power battery, and the official claim can provide an additional range of 1800 kilometers per year for the Toyota bZ4X.
The same is the roof of the solar panel design model, Tesla's Cyber pickup truck counts as one, but unfortunately the Cyber pickup truck is still in the "postponement this year, next year must be" quasi-mass production stage.
In addition, Toyota's steer-by-wire technology is also installed on this car, specifically, the Toyota bZ4X equipped with this technology controls the steering operation within 150 degrees of the steering wheel.
Friends who don't know how many laps to play and don't know how to return to the steering wheel can not worry.
Toyota is still conservative?
Toyota bZ4X, has not yet been listed in The country, the specific dynamic feeling is unknown, but foreign media have already had a test drive experience and evaluation, on the whole, depreciation is greater than praise.
First of all, the positive side is mainly concentrated in two aspects, driving experience and space.
In terms of driving experience, the Toyota bZ4X pure electric platform is jointly developed with Subaru, which has advantages in terms of sportiness and passability, and in terms of design, the height of the cover is low, the front of the car is short, the A-pillar is relatively thin and the tilt angle is small, so the driving vision is better.
At the same time, the noise treatment of the entire cockpit is also very in place.
In addition, in terms of space, the shorter front also reserves a relatively large space for the cockpit, compared with the Ford Electric Horse, although the length and wheelbase are not advantageous, but the interior space is better than the latter.
As for depreciation, most of them focus on the following aspects:
The first is the platform layout, the Toyota bZ4X's motor system is under the front cover, which is basically the same as the layout of the fuel vehicle engine, resulting in the lack of a luggage compartment in the vehicle.
And more importantly, this layout is also the layout of the mainstream oil to electricity platform.
The second is the charging power, the maximum 150kW fast charging, 0-80% charging time to half an hour, compared with the current mainstream fast charging, this car can not escape the situation of mass production that is, lagging behind.
In addition, the dashboard design of the Toyota bZ4X is also more inclined to the design of traditional fuel vehicles, and the remaining battery bar does not show the percentage, only the remaining mileage.
Finally, foreign electric vehicle media INSIDEVs defined the car in one sentence:
The design of this car shows that Toyota did not consider the needs of electric vehicle users, and did not feel that electric vehicles are better than hybrid models, after all, Toyota is still in the transition stage of sticking to the hybrid route.
It is both the final definition of the vehicle and the overall evaluation of Toyota's entire electrification strategy:
To sum up, it is pure electricity to test the water, adhere to the mixture of motionless shaking.
There is no more to-point evaluation than this, as the big brother of the japanese top three, the global car company sales NO.1, Toyota perfectly interprets what is called "ship big difficult u-turn".
Last December, Toyota's electrification transition strategy was late.
Toyota plans to invest 8 trillion yen (445.6 billion yuan) in electrification by 2030 to launch 30 electric vehicles, with a sales target of 3.5 million pure electric vehicles.
The data is scary, but it also depends on the situation:
Of the 8 trillion yen invested, only half of it was invested in pure electricity, or 4 trillion yen (222.8 billion yuan), and 3.5 million pure electric vehicles were sold, which is almost 33% of Toyota's global sales last year.
That is to say, by 2030, if Toyota's sales continue to grow, the penetration rate of Toyota's pure electric vehicles will further decline.
Who is the rest of the share?
3 directions: hybrid models, fuel vehicles, and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles that Toyota has been reluctant to give up.
Compared with other traditional car companies seeking a rapid turnaround and setting a timetable for the complete suspension of fuel vehicles, by 2030, it is basically a fully electrified situation.
If this rhythm is followed, Toyota will be one of the few players who are still in transition.
Only at that time, whether it is a traditional car company or a new car-making force that has sprung up, can toyota still give Toyota the opportunity to transition?
one more thing
In terms of intelligent driving, Toyota has recently made new progress:
Along the path Tesla has crossed, autopilot turns to a purely visual route, the kind that takes the road to synergy.
Recently, a test video of the intelligent driving system of passenger cars based on a pure vision scheme was also released, which can realize the L3 level of high-speed pilot assistance functions.
The solution comes from Toyota's autonomous driving subsidiary Woven Planet, which will be fully installed in Toyota's passenger cars in the future.
Source: Smart car reference