“There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people's eyes.”
When you choose to read books and chase dramas at home on the weekend, backpackers can't wait to set off for a glimpse of the city's spring colors. When you choose to continue the million-dollar milestone with this Toyota, the rise of electric vehicles has allowed early adopters to find a new technological trend.
Every side of life is the A-side, just different choices, different feelings. What we insist on, what we choose, what we see does not represent the whole of life, and a thousand faces of life are waiting for us to excavate. This is true of people, and it is also true of cars. Between conservatism and innovation, whether it is a traditional brand or a new car company, in the cruel competition, it is difficult for anyone to find the best of both worlds until its arrival - Toyota bZ4X. (Note: The model parameters mentioned in this article are all Japanese model specifications.) ）
Conservative, we must keep the foundation; innovation, to break through thoroughly.
Toyota bZ4X once came out to get a highlight moment, of course, this is inseparable from the world's first-selling car manufacturer aura, but also inseparable from the momentum it showed "extremely unholy". This bZ4X chooses to "part ways" with the previous Toyota electric vehicle, BEV exclusive platform to create, belonging to the TOYOTA bZ pure electric exclusive series, Hi-Tech and Emotion design theme makes it look like it came out of the concept, so a bZ4X that is about to be officially unveiled, can it conquer you who hold the coin and wait?
Guaranteed, safe and reliable
In any environment and demand, the beauty and ugliness of electric vehicles, fast and slow are only to meet the surface needs of users, and the real deep, but also affect the user's final choice of the demand, is safety. Today, when electric vehicles are often on the hot search list because of safety issues, many brands are still overpackaging safety as a marketing gimmick, ignoring the substantive problems that many consumers who hold money to buy are worried about.
In the process of the transition from fuel to the new energy era, it is easy to appear "curve overtaking" gimmick events, such as zero hundred acceleration of 3 seconds +, cruising range of 1000 kilometers +, automatic driving L4+... Many new power brands continue to "bombard" the automotive market with a series of forward-looking technologies to gain more attention. Maybe the feeling of pushing back can ignite a moment of excitement, and long endurance can take you on a sightseeing tour, but the basis of fast is braking, the foundation of long is durability, and the basis of all this is safety.
Compared with the new power brands that "seek innovation and change", most of the joint venture brands choose to "seek stability", and Toyota Motor is one of the representatives.
Stability is the stability of quality, but also the stability of safety.
As the first model in the TOYOTA bZ pure electric exclusive series, the Toyota bZ4X adopts a thin, large-capacity battery pack placed under the floor and relies on the comprehensive passive safety protection provided by the BEV exclusive platform.
The main frame parts of the bZ4X's body structure are made of hot stamped materials and high-strength steel plates to improve the protection of the vehicle for the occupants, battery packs and various parts of the body. In addition, the vehicle design has a structure that disperses the impact load in multiple places, which can improve the collision energy absorption rate, which can effectively reduce the damage of the collision to the vehicle, the occupants in the vehicle and the other vehicle, and the safety guarantee is stable enough.
More importantly, when the battery pack of bZ4X collides, the battery structure of "the cooling circuit is isolated from the battery cell" and the high resistance type coolant can prevent the fire caused by the short circuit caused by the leakage of the coolant in the battery pack, and the voltage, current and temperature of the battery can be monitored multiple times to prevent heating, and the quality is stable and guaranteed.
In addition to the constant pursuit of a high level of safety in the body body and the battery itself, the bZ4X is also equipped with a new "Toyota Safety Sense" assist package that supports OTA upgrades, which includes 10 active safety features, which are comparable to the latest Lexus NX.
Whether you are a novice or an "old driver", you can experience the practical convenience experience brought by this TSS intelligent driver assistance system. In urban road conditions, dynamic radar cruise control system can effectively reduce the driver's driving fatigue, so that the owner of the already busy day does not have to experience the pain of going home. What's more, for parents, the door opening warning system can effectively prevent children in the back seat from causing unnecessary dangers due to a moment of "naughtiness".
Not only that, emergency driving stop system, pre-judgment active driving assistance system, pre-collision safety system, lane departure early warning system, intelligent lane tracking system, lane change assist system, road sign recognition assistance system and other functions, but also at any time for safety escort, the use of the stability of the system to reduce the probability of accidents, it can be said that in the safety dimension, bZ4X in the same level of the market has done the unparalleled.
Toyota's "durability" and "stability" have long been recognized by users and industry insiders, and now the new Toyota bZ4X naturally pursues this fine tradition, for active and passive safety, durability and stability is not the most important thing!
Shou, a century-old reputation
It is a bit "sad" to say, as a century-old car company of the automotive industry giant, Toyota did not officially release the first pure electric model of the BEV exclusive platform based on e-TNGA - bZ4X until 2021. Looking at other newly established new energy brands, they have already carried out multi-category layout and even product iteration.
However, after in-depth investigation, it is not difficult to find that the new energy products represented by volkswagen ID. series, Weilai, etc., from the announcement of concept cars to the release of real cars, spanned many years, and the new power brands were forced by the pressure of capital for mass production, and labels such as "semi-finished products" and "rough workmanship" were often criticized by car owners, and finally the product quality was directly proportional to the time precipitation.
In contrast, Toyota bZ4X from the concept car to the mass production car took less than a year, and the quality control is reliable, but also debuted on the Winter Olympic stage, taking on the heavy responsibility of escorting the Beijing Olympic torch relay, it can be seen that the creation of a good car needs thousands of hammers.
For Toyota, the technology and experience accumulated in the century-old history are beyond doubt, and the arrival of the bZ4X must have experienced the test of extreme cold and heat, withstood repeated crash tests, and can withstand multiple road conditions.
Tron, "with the crowd" is different
Early electric vehicles often fell into the dilemma of "oil to electricity", not that the products designed in this way were not good, but that such a design could not optimize and improve the electric vehicle in terms of endurance, space, energy consumption, and driving control. Nowadays, the "native electric platform" has become the "standard" of electric vehicles, just like the bZ4X built on the exclusive PLATFORM of BEV, showing the full advantages of "positive research and development".
From the perspective of hardware quality, bZ4X has a 500km WLTC working range, and in today's 700km or even 1000km NEDC long-endurance era, Toyota seems to be somewhat "conservative". However, the bZ4X's 500km endurance is based on the WLTC standard, which is more comprehensive, more stringent and more referenced than the NEDC standard.
Not only that, the bZ4X aims to achieve the world's highest battery capacity retention rate (90% after 10 years), and the battery pack with a capacity of 71.4 kWh has a maximum power of 150 kWh in the fast charge mode, and can be charged 80% in 30 minutes (the charging parameters are the specifications of Japanese models).
In order to maximize the length of the range, bZ4X uses a higher cost but more energy-saving heat pump air conditioning, in order to ensure winter endurance, at the same time, bZ4X will also be equipped with high-efficiency solar charging dome, if measured according to the annual driving range of 10,000 kilometers, the annual solar power generation can be driven 1800km, about equal to the three circles around Hainan Island mileage, it can be seen that the solar charging panel has played a vital role in the improvement of bZ4X endurance.
When it comes to the drive form, the "difference" of the bZ4X is obvious.
The bZ4X has two versions, front-drive and four-wheel drive, of which the front-drive single-motor version has a maximum power of 150kW and an acceleration time of 8.4s per 100 kilometers. As for the four-wheel drive version, the bZ4X is arranged with an 80kW drive motor on the front and rear axles, and the maximum power of the vehicle is 160kW, and the acceleration time of 100 kilometers is increased to 7.7s.
bZ4X will also be equipped with X-MODE four-wheel drive off-road auxiliary mode, and equipped with a newly developed "intelligent creep mode", so that bZ4X can easily cope with highway, sand, mud and other road conditions, to ensure grip at the same time, improve vehicle handling, make driving difficulty, very suitable for e-TNGA architecture for bZ4X in the driving quality of the demanding requirements, for users, an electric vehicle full of "driving pleasure" will be more attractive.
If the driving pleasure attracts most male users or "old drivers", then this "black technology" that has been realized and will be introduced in the future can really be regarded as a blessing for women and novices - OMG driving control set, that is, the racer steering wheel + steering system by wire, at that time, Toyota owners will be able to experience the steering wheel design that should have appeared on F1 racing cars.
In simple terms, this feature makes steering handling lighter and easier.
This OMG technology abandons the mechanical connection between the steering wheel and the tire, and adopts a wire-transmitted signal, which on the one hand can filter out the fine vibrations of the road surface and improve driving comfort, on the other hand, so that the steering wheel can complete the conventional turning operation under the premise of only turning ± 150 °, without changing hands and wheels. This design also allows the bZ4X's minimum turning radius to be controlled at 5.7m, knowing that this is a medium-sized SUV with a wheelbase comparable to a land cruiser and reaching 2850mm, so that even if you are a novice driver or a female owner, you can easily control it!
New, datong "small difference"
After knowing the Toyota bZ4X, I carefully examined the vehicle design itself. You will find that the bZ4X in front of you is not much different from the previous concept car, and it can be said that it is 100% restored to the design of the concept car. The silhouette of the mid-size SUV adds avant-garde design elements, the side and rear of the car use a lot of depictive lines, and a futuristic and hard-hitting design gives this electric car a unique style.
The simple profile creates a highly recognizable visual perception, with a narrow strip of lights in front and a closed grille, and a lightsaber taillight and a sports ducktail in the back, which integrates a conservative and innovative design style, which can firmly meet the tastes of Toyota fans and grasp the aesthetics of early adopter consumers.
Matching the bZ4X exterior is the highly anticipated interior.
This expectation includes the bZ4X's comfortable mobile space concept designed with the Activity Hub as the concept, the design of the front and rear short suspension makes the four wheels more inclined to the four corners of the body, the space of the cabin has been greatly optimized, and the length of the rear longitudinal space has reached 1 meter, which is enough to rival the D-class executive car, and the legs of the stilt Erlang and even the "Beijing paralysis" are not in question.
This expectation also includes the use of chrome, paint, fabric and other rich materials of the interior, rich layers of design to enhance the bZ4X interior sense of atmosphere, buttons and knobs, storage space and even ergonomic design can let every occupant of the car feel Toyota's control and attention to detail.
Of course, what is more worth looking forward to is the innovative design of bZ4X for the LCD instrument, central control screen and steering wheel in the car. The traditional circular steering wheel is equipped with a cabin stacked instrument panel design, which is convenient for the driver to see the instrument data directly from the top of the steering wheel, reducing the frequency of the driver's line of sight off the road, comparable to the "HUD" effect.
The multimedia system that keeps pace with the times supports OTA upgrades, and has navigation functions, charging facility display, mileage display, etc., and also supports Apple Carplay and Baidu CarLife, rich voice recognition system can control wipers, air conditioners and other functions, while the digital key can be directly through the smart phone to lock the car, unlock, start the system and other operations, very convenient.
A new "trump card" for Toyota?
Toyota bZ4X is the first model of toyota bZ pure electric exclusive series, referring to Toyota Motor's always rigorous attitude, it will shoulder the development direction of the entire brand's new products, which can be described as carrying a thousand pounds of burden. From the era of fuel to new energy, Toyota has appeared in our field of vision for a hundred years, for Toyota Motor, the brand side needs a safe, reliable, superior and forward-looking model; and for bZ4X, it needs to carry a glorious heritage and tenacious genes.
Between conservatism and innovation, toyota bZ4X makes a good balance, if you ask how this car makes consumers who hold coins to buy no longer hesitate, then the best answer may be: "bZ4X is a better Toyota car, not just a Toyota electric car, it still pursues a durable and stable fine tradition, which is very 'Toyota'." ”