Liu Axe once wrote in the "Qingzhuo Gao discussion": "The back wave of the Yangtze River pushes the front wave, and the new people replace the old people." In the era of "new energy", there is no shortage of car brands that can be called "back waves", which use dreams to accelerate the replacement of this era.
Can the "traditional car companies" that are the front wave really only be photographed on the beach? The answer is no, for example, the front wave represents Toyota's upcoming Toyota bZ4X with post-wave significance. (Note: The model parameters mentioned below are All Japanese model specifications.) ）
The Toyota bZ4X has all the standards of a "new power.". Why? First of all, from the name point of view, TOYOTA bZ pure electric exclusive series means to achieve the value of "beyond Zero" beyond zero emissions, while abandoning the original platform, using the new BEV exclusive platform to create, and set many leading technologies in one, more importantly, it has the goal of carbon neutrality. These all show the "new power" of toyota bZ4X.
"New forces" like safety and endurance
There is a saying in the automobile circle called "there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and there must be a Toyota car when there is a road", which is not too much to put on the Toyota bZ4X with a new energy identity, because the Toyota bZ4X has its own understanding of the safety and endurance required for new energy models.
Battery safety is the most talked about "new energy", in fact, Toyota has begun to deal with batteries as early as the 90s of the last century. After 24 years of electrification development, Toyota has undergone 4 generations of development in the core technology of the three-electric system such as battery, motor, and PCU, and has already possessed heV, PHEV, EV, and FCEV perfect electrification technology, and the battery system has maintained zero accidents, which shows its maturity and safety.
Toyota bZ4X has a safer battery pack design under the exclusive platform of BEV. The outer periphery of the battery pack uses a cross-designed reinforced structural framework, which can not only face complex road conditions and harsh environments, but also ensure the stability and safety of the battery pack in the event of a collision.
In addition, toyota bZ4X can monitor the voltage, current and temperature of individual batteries, battery blocks and battery packs in real time, and if the battery is detected to have signs of abnormal heating in the local area, it will control the battery to prevent abnormal heat generation. Not only that, Toyota bZ4X also has the latest "Toyota Safety Sense Intelligent Driver Assistance System", including 10 active safety assistance configurations including pre-collision safety system, dynamic radar cruise control system, lane departure warning system, etc., which can effectively avoid collisions.
As we all know, low temperature is the "fatal killer" of new energy vehicles, Toyota bZ4X as a global car, it must withstand the test of the cold environment in high latitudes.
At present, many new energy vehicles use thermistor heating method to provide heating in the cockpit, but it will consume a lot of electricity, resulting in shortened mileage. In order to reduce the "high consumption of electricity", Toyota bZ4X adopts a higher-cost infrared remote sensing heating system to alleviate the problem of greatly reduced battery life caused by the use of warm air.
In addition, toyota bZ4X is equipped with a high-efficiency solar charging dome on the roof, which can generate 1800km of electricity per year, and if you often travel between Beijing and Tianjin, then you can go back and forth about 7 times.
Toyota bZ4X has "new power" smart technology
Toyota bZ4X not only has new breakthroughs in safety and endurance, but also has more technology configurations that give it the capital to compete with "new forces" products. Toyota bZ4X is equipped with an interconnected navigation system that can make full use of cloud map information to obtain traffic information and parking lot vacancy information in real time, so that it can easily control the route before traveling.
In addition, Toyota bZ4X also has a more suitable for the era of the needs of the vehicle intelligent ecosystem, this car machine system allows Toyota bZ4X can have a wealth of voice recognition functions and OTA software upgrade functions, and the digital key can directly lock the vehicle through the smart phone, unlock, start and other operations. If that's all you think the Toyota bZ4X is all about embracing the electric life, don't worry, a new driving experience is waiting for you.
The Toyota bZ4X is also equipped with the X-MODE 4WD off-road assist mode function that other electric vehicles do not have, and is equipped with the newly developed "Grip-Control Intelligent Creep Mode". The motor, which is independently controlled at the front and rear, improves the rotation and handling stability of the vehicle. In the vehicle encounters snow, mud and other bad road conditions that let the wheels idle, open the X-MODE four-wheel drive off-road auxiliary mode control switch, the system will control the electric drive system according to the road conditions to instantly strengthen the power output and reasonable distribution of torque, so that it can get out of trouble, greatly improving the off-road passability. Not only that, but the independently controlled front and rear motors achieve a minimum turning radius of 5.7m, making it easy to drive the Toyota bZ4X to make u-turns in narrow road conditions.
The ability to get out of trouble is not all the focus of the Toyota bZ4X in terms of handling, which is also because it also has a set of technology called "OMG Driving Control Kit", which consists of a set of "racer steering wheel and steer-by-wire". The steering wheel of the racer can achieve a steering wheel rotation angle of ± 150 °, and the steer-by-wire system is more advanced than the mechanical hydraulic assist, which is also because the steer-by-wire system can provide feasible conditions for higher-level intelligent driving under the combination of hardware such as the line-controlled dynamic system, and the steer-by-wire system can also filter out unnecessary road vibrations and transmit the road feedback more clearly to the driver, so the light and lightweight design is very suitable for female car owners. I believe that everyone is also looking forward to such an advanced steering system combination set can be introduced into the production model in the future.
The "new power" design concept
First of all, we need to talk about the design attitude shown by the Toyota bZ4X. Most of the known new power brands in the market will make a big fuss in the design dimension, after all, they need to express the brand's forward-looking understanding of new energy models.
Toyota bZ4X does not look like the shadow of the current Toyota family, which is also because it adopts a new Hi-Tech and Emotion design language, which makes Toyota bZ4X have a good sense of avant-garde, while also showing Toyota's ability to embrace the future of new energy.
In the car, compared with those models that use too exaggerated design to show the sense of interior technology, Toyota bZ4X shows people in a simple style, and the independent central control screen of the center console is larger, but it still retains some physical buttons to ensure that the car habits do not change.
The Toyota bZ4X, which is based on the BEV's proprietary platform, provides higher utilization in the car, while the 2850mm wheelbase performance allows rear passengers to get 1000mm of rear longitudinal space.
The Toyota bZ4X is worth the wait
Looking at Toyota's electrification road, after more than 20 years of development, Toyota has a perfect electrification technology route of HEV, PHEV, EV, and FCEV, leading other car companies in the industry. Toyota bZ4X is using a new design concept and years of accumulated technology to meet the new needs of consumers for new energy models.
Although some people think that Toyota's transformation speed is a little slower than the layout of other traditional car companies or new forces, if you look back at the press conference on December 14, 2021, you will find that Toyota Motor has a "sudden spring breeze" momentum in the field of new energy, so can the bZ4X under the TOYOTA bZ pure electric exclusive series ride the dust? Let's look forward to the next April 28 launch!