In the 200,000-300,000 yuan segment, the choice of pure electric SUVs is not small, to have a joint venture, to have a new force, to have a new force, to have autonomy, a little more budget and luxury brand options, only recently on the Mercedes-Benz EQA, but only 30w nod. However, after the GAC Toyota bZ4X came out, the suspense of the market segment was really revealed.
Since the launch of the first mass-produced HEV model in 1997, Toyota's sales of new energy models have exceeded 20 million units, and set a record of "zero accidents in battery systems". Because of this, the market is interested in Toyota's pure electric SUV for the current market environment and car demand.
Before the launch of the bZ4X, although Toyota also had some pure electric products, but based on the platform of oil to electricity, the competitiveness of the model was not outstanding, nor was it the level that Toyota should have.
Therefore, the launch of bZ4X by GAC Toyota will receive so much attention, it really comes from the Toyota e-TNGA pure electric platform, and specific to the product, bZ4X is indeed powerful.
Toyota's product concept of creating pure electricity is different from the new forces of car manufacturing, compared to the latter's radical and advanced, Toyota is more concerned about the actual use of this car and the content that consumers really care about, such as battery attenuation, everyone's mobile phone may decay by 5%-10% a year, so how much does a car endurance after 10 years have been reduced compared to the new car? Toyota's answer was 10%.
For example, heat pump air conditioning, infrared remote sensing heating under the front seats, solar charging dome, etc., some very specific small functions meet everyone's more subtle needs for electric vehicles, rather than blindly competing in computing power and assisted driving algorithms.
Of course, this is also the disadvantage of bZ4X, which is indeed insufficient in terms of intelligent driving, in addition to the new "TSS 3.0 Zhixing Safety Assist Kit", in terms of "free hands and feet", it is not as good as the products of the new forces of car building.
In terms of sand power, GAC Toyota has launched two power versions, namely the single-motor front-drive version with a maximum power of 150kW, and the dual-motor four-wheel drive version with a maximum power of 160kW, with a battery life of 615KM under CLTC conditions. It is worth mentioning that this four-wheel drive system named X-MODE was jointly developed by Toyota and Subaru, between the trust in the reputation of subaru four-wheel drive system, and I think that this set of electric four-wheel drive performance should be quite good.
In addition, the special-shaped steering wheel that everyone likes does not appear on the GAC Toyota bZ4X this time, but it is said that the feasibility of introducing the country is being actively discussed, because of the shape, so the special-shaped steering wheel does not have the possibility of changing hands safely, Toyota said that it is composed of a combination of racing steering wheel and steer-by-wire system, without changing hands to complete the U-turn action, if there is a chance, it is like a test drive to feel it.
Basically, the fundamentals of GAC Toyota bZ4X are like this, and the specific body trim, design and other details have been too much to continue to talk about.
Finally, let's take a look at a simple comparison between the GAC Toyota bZ4X and the GAC Honda Polar 1, although the latter has not yet been officially released, but we can see the difference between the two from the currently known information.
The first conclusion is that bZ4X is indeed better, but it is also more expensive. "Good" is mainly reflected in the following aspects:
Battery, GAC Honda did not disclose the battery attenuation of the polar 1, the later may be through the ultra-long warranty and other rights to dispel consumer worries, this depends on the listing of the situation; size and space, GAC Toyota bZ4X compared to the polar 1 car length more than 300mm, wheelbase more than 240mm, the width of the car more than 70mm, the gap is not small; design, polar 1 has a strong shadow and the shadow of the crown road, consumers can find a sense of déjà vu at a glance, The GAC Toyota bZ4X has a more scientific and technological sense in both the appearance and the interior layout, and the bZ4X may also adopt a special-shaped steering wheel + steering-by-wire in the future, which further opens up the gap between the two in the atmosphere of science and technology.
In addition, there are some detailed functions, such as the solar roof just mentioned, subaru-blessed X-MODE electric four-wheel drive system and so on.
In fact, after GAC Toyota announced the price of the bZ4X, I knew that it had achieved a misalignment competition with the GAC Honda Polar Pan 1. Previously, when the brother model Dongfeng Honda e: NS1 was listed, the top price was only 220,000, and this was only the starting price of GAC Toyota bZ4X, which was the first time for the two fields, after all, CR-V and RAV4 could be described as fighting for less than half a century, but in any case, in the first answer sheet of the next generation of electric products, Toyota won first.