Under the background of "carbon neutrality", Toyota, which has been in the fuel and hybrid car market for many years, has finally come up with a broken boat posture, and he who has rarely appeared in the pure electric vehicle market earlier will put forward his future strategy together, according to Toyota's planning, plans to launch 30 full-range pure electric vehicles by 2030, and it is expected that the annual sales of pure electric vehicles will reach 3.5 million.
How many people only know the high level of Toyota fuel vehicle era "Toyota is not bad, one car is three generations", but it is easy to ignore this: Toyota is the only global automotive company with a full range of electric product development including HEV, PHEV, EV, FCEV including automotive manufacturers, in the face of the future low-carbon society, it has the accumulation of electrification technology that general car companies do not have.
As the top brand of Toyota's new electric vehicle product line, the bZ4X is highly expected by Toyota. On April 28, the bZ4X was officially launched in China, through this model, we can not only see the product characteristics under the exclusive series of bZ pure electric in the future, but also effectively speculate on Toyota's "environmental protection car can only truly contribute to the environment" car-making concept. In the face of future new travel, under the careful polishing of Toyota engineers, TOYOTA bZ4X is both interesting and informative, it changes Toyota's conservative and stable traditional impression, new technology is added, and the old quality remains unchanged.
Hard-core technology plus, the forerunner of the new energy era
The progress of science and technology is reflected in all aspects of bZ4X, and when facing it, the most likely thing to arouse your interest must be a number of "black technology".
As a pure tram, in addition to performance, endurance is a crucial indicator. The bZ4X places a thin, high-capacity battery pack flat under the chassis, adopts an electric drive bridge that integrates a motor, axle, and inverter, and also adopts a power supply assembly (ESU) that combines the two functions of charging and power distribution.
Compact layout means efficient, efficient implementation of the real car driving, that is, lower energy consumption per unit distance, compared with competitors, bZ4X has a maximum cruising range of 615km, the lowest power consumption even reached 11.6 degrees per 100 kilometers, in bZ4X here, Toyota will implement the energy-saving spirit of its own fuel vehicles to the pure tram body.
Of course, as a pure electric model, in addition to the capacity index, enough anti-attenuation ability for the battery is also quite critical, but also the key to the formation of a retention rate, while achieving energy-saving indicators, the battery used by bZ4X is Toyota to 10 years 90% of the battery capacity retention rate of the development target to adjust, 10 years still has a super high power retention rate, efficient and long-lasting.
In addition, Toyota has added many new technologies that are rare in mainstream cars to the cockpit design concept of "Activity Hub", in order to create a new comfort experience for pure trams and unlock new car use scenarios.
The bZ4X is equipped with Toyota's first air conditioning control unit integrated into the infrared remote sensing heating system, even if the outside temperature is below zero, it can feel warm for 60 seconds. While achieving 30% lightweight, it reduces the energy consumption of air conditioners by 30%, further saves the energy consumption of a lot of batteries, and gets rid of the mileage anxiety caused by air conditioning heating.
bZ4X also has a high-efficiency solar charging dome to generate electricity for the car, and the estimated data shows that this electric dome can charge the smartphone 140 times a day, which can improve the vehicle's endurance by 1750 kilometers per year, which is equivalent to driving from Beijing to Chongqing. In actual use, you can not only charge your car in a parking lot without a charging pile, but also use solar energy to charge emergencies in the event of an emergency such as a disaster.
The addition of the "black technology" configuration makes the bZ4X a pure electric SUV that perfectly combines technology and low carbon, and after it is moved, the excellent driving control ability will still make you admire.
Future-oriented species, once again upgraded driving control fun
When it comes to Toyota's driving texture, many people will have the impression of "moderation" and "stability", but in fact, this is just the attribute of Toyota's family car, considering comfort and comfort; and in the sports car, from the AE86 that was held on the altar very early to the newly resurrected SUPRA, toyota's driving control ability is top-notch, and this attribute is also inherited and carried forward in the bZ4X.
With the empowerment and blessing of science and technology, electronic control has gradually replaced the design of mechanical connections, such as electronic handbrakes, electronic shift paddles, etc. On the eve of today's full embrace of the era of high-end automatic driving, the steering system has also begun to abandon the traditional mechanical hard connection and turn to the electronic control by the system, which is the steering by wire, and this has long been widely used in the aerospace field.
Steer-by-wire is the product of the car's continuous development towards more sensitive operation, more reliable structure and lower power consumption, which omits a part of the vehicle's front cabin to turn the mechanical structure and occupies less space than the mechanical connection. Because there is no hard connection between the steering wheel and the steering machine, only a small part of the road surface vibration is transmitted to the steering wheel, and the comfort is also stronger. And the steering wheel angle and steering torque can be independently adjusted by the ECU, which makes it easier to expand a variety of positive torque modes to meet the needs of different drivers for "feel".
Although the bZ4X now listed will still use a conventional steering wheel, but Toyota is also actively taking action to introduce it into the domestic market as soon as possible, and in the future, with the gradual landing of the new policy, the bZ4X's race wheel + steering system will upgrade the bZ4X's driving control again.
But first of all, the bZ4X is an SUV that brings driving pleasure not only in-line steering, but also from the Toyota e-TNGA's exclusive BEV platform, as well as the X-MODE four-wheel drive system developed in conjunction with SUBARRU. Compared with the multi-road mode of traditional four-wheel drive systems, X-MODE allows the driver to only need to switch modes according to the scene, eliminating complex operations and reducing the threshold of off-road driving.
In order to maximize the X-MODE four-wheel drive system, become more intelligent and more humanized, bZ4X is also equipped with the newly developed Grip-Control intelligent multi-road adaptation system, which is used to be responsible for power distribution in different scenarios, give full play to the characteristics of motor drive, precise control, adjust power output, ensure the stability of daily driving vehicles, and power distribution of non-paved road driving, making conventional driving easier and safer, mild off-roading and getting out of trouble is simpler.
Trend technology integrates the future of travel, how does bZ4X answer?
At the moment when the development of science and technology is becoming more and more advanced, intelligence has become the core of China's passenger car market in recent years, and the technology configuration related to the high frequency use of travel has also become an important measuring yardstick, in a pure tram, the fashionable high-tech into a practical functional configuration, bringing it full current advantages and more redundant future advantages, which is the biggest feature of a new energy vehicle compared to fuel vehicles.
Therefore, on the bZ4X, Toyota has equipped it with a new "TOYOTA Safety Sense Safety Assist Kit". Compared with the original system, Toyota has upgraded the processor, camera, radar and other hardware in the bZ4X, and comprehensively improved the various driver assistance functions by expanding the detection range of radar and camera through the improvement of software algorithms.
The bZ4X's system has an intelligent panoramic monitor (PVM), a pre-collision safety system (PCS), a lane departure warning system (LDA), a dynamic radar cruise control system (DRCC), a lane following assistance system (LTA), a high beam automatic control system (AHB), a door false opening warning system (SEA), a road sign identification assistance system (RSA), an emergency driving stop system (EDSS), The 10 intelligent driver assistance functions, such as the Predictive Active Driver Assistance System (PDA), are among the top in today's production vehicles in terms of active driving safety guarantee level.
At the same time, bZ4X will also be equipped with T OYOTA Teammate Advanced Park parking assistance system, the new intelligent parking assistant supports up to 6 kinds of parking and outbound scenarios, with vehicle parking and parking control functions, after the function is activated, it can actively control the steering wheel, throttle, brake and gear shift, assist the driver to complete the reverse into the garage, road parking and other parking actions, without the need for the driver to continuously monitor and take over. At the same time, it supports the parking space memory function, and can complete automatic parking even in parking positions without scribing.
It can be said that in the current bZ4X, many intelligent driving assistance functions are combined and combined like invisible butlers, which can provide solid support regardless of congestion, smooth driving, getting on and off, and parking in the global car scene.
In the future car scene, the combination of Toyota's TOYOTA Safety Sense Safety Sense Safety Assist Kit and TOYOTA Teammate Advanced Park Parking Assistance System has shown more scene applicability. Because of the support for OTA remote software upgrades, with the technical iteration of software and the upgrade of permissions in the future, its significance to bZ4X is not only security and auxiliary parking.
The root of travel is safety, safety is also Toyota has always been proud of the quality, at the beginning of this century, Toyota put forward the "traffic accident zero casualties" vision, perfect active safety system technology for users to travel freely escort, this is bZ4X in the face of new energy vehicle market a powerful killer.
In the era of pure electricity, Toyota's service quality is still trustworthy
For any sufficiently efficient means of transportation, low failure rate and maintenance rate will not throw the owner in the middle of the road, but also enough to support the owner to concentrate on upgrading his career, the overlord of the fuel era Toyota has won a large number of fans by adhering to its own quality concept, "there must be a road before the car to the mountain, there must be a Toyota car", which has become a golden signboard of Toyota's public mouth. In the new energy era that is about to arrive in full swing, Toyota continues to uphold QDR manufacturing standards, and the quality is still trustworthy.
Products and brands are the key to trustworthiness, but for bZ4X, the "service strategy" and "dealer channel" also add to its victory.
In terms of service strategy, Toyota has the following nine service guarantees for bZ4X in China:
It can be seen that the service guarantee of bZ4X still maintains the high standard of the current Toyota service, and for the characteristics of the pure tram three-electric system, it also has a long warranty cycle in the pure tram, as well as a perfect service of the full use cycle, and the final value-preserving repurchase program, bringing consumers a series of peace-of-mind after-sales service policies to ensure that users save money and worry throughout the car.
It should be pointed out that the bZ4X will be domestically produced by FAW Toyota and GAC Toyota and sold through dual channels, which means that the outlets that can guarantee the above services for bZ4X will be FAW Toyota and GAC Toyota's nearly 1,400 dealerships across the country, not only more in number, but also in the system to cover the vast majority of cities in the country.
In the future, these outlets will become part of bZ4X's nationwide refueling network and after-sales maintenance network, Toyota will maximize the advantages of dealer network, open up online and offline channels, provide bZ4X users with intimate and thoughtful exclusive after-sales service benefits, and further accelerate the transformation from a product service enterprise to a user operation enterprise.
summary:
The bZ4X is undoubtedly a landmark model for Toyota, and as the pioneering work of the TOYOTA bZ series, it has been aimed at meeting the actual demand for BEV products in China and other markets from the beginning of the project. It is a Toyota, and then a pure electric SUV, so it does not hesitate to show its technical hard power in intelligent driving control, and it still adheres to Toyota's consistent reliability and efficiency in terms of service quality.
Technology × quality, FAW + GAC, this time bZ4X will stand in a new dimension, with its users to enjoy a safe and secure, heartwarming driving experience, set off toyota zero emission journey.