Edit: Ma Yuhang
In the impression of most consumers, Toyota seems to have been relatively late in the field of electric vehicles, but if you have a deep understanding of Toyota, you will find that as early as 1997, Toyota launched the world's first hybrid car, the Prius. Over the past 25 years, Toyota has always adhered to the all-round electrification technology, and actively promoted the technological progress and popularization of hybrid, plug-in hybrid, pure electric, fuel cell, so Toyota has a deep technical precipitation and development in the field of electrification, with very perfect electrification technology and three-electric system advantages, as of now in the world with more than 20 million electrification user scale, with the rapid development of the domestic market, consumers are also more and more for Toyota pure electric products, so this Toyota set of masterpieces - Here comes the bZ4X.
On April 28, Toyota bZ4X officially opened pre-sale, this new car in the interior and exterior design to show us Toyota's new design ideas, but also once again subverted our understanding of Toyota as a traditional car brand. As the first model of TOYOTA bZ pure electric exclusive series, Toyota will take it as a starting point in the future to comprehensively promote the continuous expansion of beev product lineup and contribute to China's carbon neutrality with more diversified choices.
Low center of gravity/high rigidity for driving pleasure
The biggest feature of bZ4X is the use of a BEV-exclusive platform based on the e-TNGA architecture. The model under the platform will adopt an innovative flat panel battery module arrangement, an integrated electric transaxle, and an ESU power supply unit with charging and power as one, thus constructing the low center of gravity of the bZ4X. At the same time, the main structure of the vehicle adopts hot stamping materials and high-strength steel plates, and the rigidity of some accessories has also been targeted. Therefore, under the characteristics of low center of gravity and high rigidity, the reaction speed and body posture of the bZ4X vehicle steering make the driving experience to a higher level. In addition, in addition to bringing a better driving control experience, the high rigidity body can also protect the safety of the driver and occupants at all times.
TNGA architecture under the model reliability and safety in the domestic market has been well-known, e-TNGA architecture under the model also inherits these advantages, and the most feared battery life and stability for consumers through technical means to improve in all directions, bZ4X uses a large-capacity battery pack integrated with the body, in the event of a collision can ensure the stability of the battery pack, "cooling circuit and battery cell isolation" Structure can also prevent the battery pack coolant leakage, resulting in a short circuit caused by fire. In addition, Toyota will also rely on mature and reliable three-electric technology and advanced technology, with the world-class level of 10 years of battery capacity retention rate of 90%, and strive to build the TOYOTA bZ pure electric exclusive series into a safe and secure electric vehicle brand.
As the first product of toyota bZ pure electric exclusive series, Toyota bZ4X this product has too much black technology, such as high-efficiency solar charging dome for the car to bring additional mileage, a Toyota bZ4X through solar power generation can travel 1750 kilometers per year, although it does not seem to be too obvious improvement, but it reflects the value concept of "beyond zero emissions", but also does allow consumers to save real money, is a balance, but also a win-win situation.
Cutting-edge technology is integrated into daily car life
The electrification and intelligence of automobiles are complementary and mutually successful, and whether young people, as the indigenous people of the Internet, can maintain "real-time online" in car life is also very important to them. First of all, Toyota has made sufficient efforts in the interior design of the bZ4X, creating a smart cockpit for young people with unlimited desire to explore. The cabin stacked dashboard design creates the feeling of driving the future of the car, and also facilitates the driver to see the dashboard directly from the top of the steering wheel, ensuring driving safety. In addition, the Toyota bZ4X is also equipped with high-end configurations such as knob shift mechanism, streaming media rearview mirrors, and infrared remote sensing heating system.
In order to enrich the vehicle playability and bring a better connected driving experience, bZ4X also provides a very complete intelligent ecosystem to support the needs of different smartphones on-board interconnection, and at the same time, you can also issue instructions such as locking, unlocking, starting and other instructions to the vehicle through digital keys, and you can also authorize your family and lover to achieve multi-person operation of one car. Taking advantage of intelligent speech recognition systems can also enable many interesting interactive experiences.
The OTA upgrade function also allows the originally rich in-vehicle intelligent ecosystem to gain the ability to upgrade and grow independently, and users can feel the infinite charm brought by the evolvable car-machine system when using it in the later stage.
The intelligence of the car is not only reflected in the intelligent ecology, the intelligent driving ability of a new energy model has long become a "key subject" for young people when buying a car. With the blessing of the e-TNGA architecture, Toyota bZ4X has a very good autonomous driving assist technology, which makes it a significant gap with competitors of the same level.
The new TOYOTA Safety Sense Safety Assist Kit, which is installed on the Toyota bZ4X, is equipped with a camera sensor with enhanced functions, a front radar sensor, which allows it to have a wider and longer detection range than ever before, supports up to 6 parking and outbound scenarios, and can use the parking space memory function even in parking spaces without parking lines. And in some narrow basements, consumers are also easy to encounter inconvenient scenes of getting on and off the car, then the driver can get off the car in advance, use the mobile phone APP remote control for parking space access, and no longer need to climb the trunk and co-pilot.
In terms of active safety, the vehicle is also equipped with more than 10 active safety intelligent driving assistance functions such as pre-collision safety system (PCS), dynamic radar cruise control system (DRCC), lane changing assist function (LCA), road identification assistance system (RSA), pre-judgment active driver assistance system (PDA), etc., which take the initiative to attack when encountering situations and protect the safety of occupants in the car.
"All-use car cycle" intimate service
Toyota bZ4X will also provide users with intimate and thoughtful exclusive after-sales service benefits through nearly 1,400 dealerships across the country. Although the cost of late maintenance for pure electric vehicles is already much cheaper than that of fuel vehicles, Toyota still provides free basic maintenance for 10 years or 200,000 kilometers (whichever comes first).
During this period, Toyota also provided a three-power warranty, a battery capacity warranty (free replacement of more than 30% of the decline), a free electric vehicle safety inspection (accompanied by free entry), a multi-scenario convenient player scooter service, 24-hour all-weather emergency rescue, a reassuring value-preserving repurchase policy, and a 3-year 100,000-kilometer vehicle warranty. In addition to charging, consumers basically do not involve other expenses in the later stage of the car, and even repair and maintenance also provide convenient door-to-door service.
From its appearance in the spotlight to the official opening of pre-sales today, every step bZ4X has taken has continued to push up consumer expectations. In addition to the memorable design and many high-tech configurations, the bZ4X also has the battery technology of the same class, and the development goal of maintaining a battery capacity retention rate of 90% for 10 years has dispelled most consumers' concerns about the life of the battery, and at the same time can improve the retention rate of its used cars. I have to say that Toyota is the real non-sound, a blockbuster,
But now the domestic pure electric vehicle market is still very fierce, so for bZ4X the next is definitely a hard battle, so can it break through the siege and establish a quality electric benchmark image? Let's look forward to it.
Source: Youche Zhilian