Toyota, the representative car company of Japanese cars, has finally taken a key step in the layout of new electric vehicles.
On April 28, Toyota's first new electric vehicle in China, the bZ4X, officially opened pre-sale, which is based on the latest e-TNGA pure electric architecture research and development, which is the first model of Toyota's pure electric bZ series.
Faw Toyota and GAC Toyota jointly produced bZ4X, and the price of both was the same, with 5 models with pre-sale prices ranging from 220,000 to 300,000 yuan.
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 will be available in 6 body colours. Based on Toyota's second-generation solar charging system, the bZ4X's solar charging dome can generate electricity, and the system officially says that the system can generate 1750km of electricity a year.
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 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.
With a length of 4690/1860/1650mm in length, width and height, the new car is a compact SUV in terms of body size, but its wheelbase has reached 2850mm, and Toyota has classified it as a medium-sized pure electric SUV.
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.
Power part, Toyota BZ4X has two versions of dual motor and single motor, single motor output power of 150kW (201 horsepower), zero hundred acceleration of 8.4 seconds, dual motor is 80kW + 80kW (214 horsepower), zero hundred acceleration of 7.7 seconds, compared with the mainstream models in the market, the competitiveness is also more online.
In the domestic market, 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.