"I have a car" original innovative car report: With the official release of the new RZ, it also allows the Lexus brand to take an important step in pure electrification transformation...
In today's era of electrification, the BBA has launched new cars based on pure electric platforms, although the overall layout is not very much, but before this Lexus has been slow to act, but the good meal is not afraid of late, Lexus in the recent finally brought us the first newly developed pure electric model - the new RZ. According to previous revelations, this new model will be released to the domestic market at the end of this year, which is worth looking forward to!
▲ The future will be a pure electric brand
In the eyes of many people, the parent company Toyota can be said to be the latest to enter the electrification camp of the company, but do not know that the world's automotive giant has been in the field of electrification for 25 years, according to official data, as of the end of February 2022, Toyota's electrified vehicles including HEV, PHEV, FCEV, BEV global cumulative sales have exceeded 20 million.
However, Akio Toyoda had criticized pure electric vehicles before, and he believed that the BEV market was indeed not mature enough, and it would be "counterproductive" to rush forward. At the time, he gave a very typical example that was impressive, BEV is not as simple as switching to car technology, and a lot of electricity around the world is generated from fossil fuels, and there is no carbon leap.
But with the development of the new energy market in recent years, now the president's idea has obviously changed, so Toyota at last year's press conference, retaliated to show 16 pure electric new cars, and announced that by 2030, Toyota's parent brand and Lexus brand will bring 30 pure electric models, of which the Lexus brand will stop selling fuel vehicles by 2035, which also marks that the latter will be pure electric vehicles in the future.
Thanks to the accumulation in the field of electrification, but also the best selling brand in the hybrid technology market, when Toyota wants to vigorously promote the BEV model, it may have the technical resources and technical experience in its hands, which is far more mature and efficient than imagined, and it seems that many opponents will feel uneasy. At the same time, in the future, the Toyota brand will continue to adhere to a full range of electrification technology and all-new energy forms, actively promote the popularization of EVs, PHEV, HEVs and FCEVs, and provide users with enough diversified car purchase options.
▲ What is the new RZ A new Lexus SUV?
The new RZ is built using the e-TNGA architecture, which is cognate with the bZ4X, and the styling is inspired by the previously released concept car LF-Z Electrified. Even if the new car is a new pure electric product sequence, the appearance still retains the unique temperament of lexus models in the past, and the design characteristics of the internal combustion engine era have been greatly preserved in the new car.
Therefore, the family characteristics of the new car are very obvious, even if the electric vehicle does not need the middle mesh of the traditional internal combustion engine model, the front face spindle style is still retained, and the air ducts are reserved on both sides of the front of the car, in order to reduce the wind resistance and cooling effect.
The new RZ tail design is full of edges and corners, the transverse taillight group design is very coordinated, compared to a large number of "forced" to join the cross-type taillight group on the market, this design is indeed beautiful enough, and the tail spoiler is also quite eye-catching, the official said that this new spoiler style can suppress the crosswind in the driving to the force exerted on the body to ensure the stability of driving.
The side ratio and bZ4X maintain a high degree of consistency, which also fully illustrates the blood relationship between the new RZ and the latter, the new car is expected to be 4805x1895x1635mm, wheelbase 2850mm, compared to the same positioning of the Audi Q4 e-tron, the former including three dimensions and wheelbase overall leadership, is expected to bring a more comfortable passenger experience to the rear passengers.
Even if the new car uses a slip-back modeling design, according to the official drawings, the engineers have also carried out concave treatment in the rear roof position this time, and it is expected that the head space will not have much impact. In addition, the new RZ uses a non-openable segmented panoramic sunroof design, and there is no sunshade, because its "Low-E" glass achieves the dual purpose of heat insulation and UV protection.
The new RZ car is also quite interesting, the wrap-around cockpit continues the brand's people-oriented design concept, the central control part has added a large-size screen for the first time, in addition to some conventional functions, it will also support the Internet of Vehicles and OTA online upgrade functions.
Even if it enters the new era of electrification, the function buttons that can be used usually are still retained, which is praised, which undoubtedly greatly increases the safety factor on the way. In addition, the new car also adopts a new knob-type electronic gear shift mechanism, as for how the appearance is still different from person to person.
The most controversial location in the car is the steering wheel position, the new RZ uses the special-shaped steering wheel design that has been retained from the concept car, although the new car will still offer traditional styling styles in the future. However, it seems that only the special-shaped steering wheel will use a variable-specific electronic steering system in the future, and under the new steering system, its steering angle is set at ±150°, which is indeed more efficient and labor-saving when moving the car or making a U-turn.
The new steer-by-wire system is not a rigid connection between the steering wheel and the wheel, but is connected by wire through the steering wheel as an input interface and the actuator, so that the future official may be able to adjust the steering logic of the system through upgrades, and this also reserves room for future automatic driving in advance.
The new RZ 450e version released earlier is equipped with dual motors front and rear, the system has a combined maximum output power of 230kW, and the new car will also be equipped with a 71.4kWh battery pack, but the exact comprehensive mileage has not yet been announced.
"I Have a Car" summary: Thanks to the accumulation of parent company Toyota in the field of hybrid technology in the past 25 years, from the earliest Prius to today's new RZ, we can truly feel Toyota's strong technical endorsement of energy drive. From the product level alone, the new car still has the unique temperament of Lexus, and it is also equipped with a lot of new technologies, coupled with the excellent reputation of the brand in the past in China, I believe that the introduction of new cars in the future is bound to attract the attention of many users. "I have a car" there are more original innovative car / price reduction market reports yo, come to get the first-hand purchase of cars, car information!