In the domestic auto market, the pace of the Japanese top three many times is surprisingly consistent, following Honda to take the lead in launching its own pure electric SUV, Toyota and Nissan have also brought their own pure electric SUV products, of which Toyota bZ4X has opened pre-sale, and Dongfeng Nissan Aria is playing "blind". Regardless of the progress and gameplay of these three Japanese pure electric SUVs, I believe that in the near future, they will inevitably face each other's competition. In addition, it must be mentioned that they will also face the Volkswagen pure electric SUV that is the first to enter the game in the future and has already made initial achievements in The country, which also means that a new round of competition is about to begin. So the question is, for now, who has the advantage, Toyota bZ4X and Nissan Ariya? How does the Japanese pure electric SUV perform in the face of the Volkswagen pure electric SUV? Let's take a look at it.
Toyota designs are bolder, and Nissan Ariya has experience in "playing with electricity"
In the impression of most consumers, the moderate and calm style of Japanese SUVs is difficult to make people have a memory point, such as RAV4 Rongfang and Qijun. However, after Toyota and Nissan successively brought their own pure electric SUVs, I believe that they subverted everyone's previous impression.
From the design point of view, Toyota bZ4X completely got rid of the previous conservative stereotypes, the design is very bold, I believe that this value can kill 90% of the consumer population. Nissan Ariya's overall visual impact is not as strong as toyota bZ4X, mainly because there is no excessive exaggerated design, but mainly using lines to outline, showing a very good design foundation, and this full, sporty style is also the mainstream design of nissan in the future.
In terms of body size, the Toyota bZ4X is a circle larger than nissan Ariya, and the 2850mm wheelbase is even the same as the Highlander, which is much longer than the 2775mm wheelbase of the Nissan Ariya, but because the space for pure electric models has always been a mystery, the actual performance depends on the final actual experience.
Toyota bZ4X and Nissan Ariya are from their own dedicated pure electric car platform, so in the chassis, driving control, electrification have their own characteristics, such as from the e-TNGA platform Toyota bZ4X has low center of gravity, high rigidity and other advantages, coupled with the characteristics of pure trams, with a certain driving control fun, The zero hundred acceleration time of different power is about 6.9 seconds-7.5 seconds, the performance is good, and the clTC mileage of up to 615km is also at the mainstream level of the same level, and it can also be seen from these data that Toyota also hopes to be balanced enough in its own pure electric SUV products.
Nissan Ariya is the first product on the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance CMF-EV platform, I believe that with the previous "Leaf" car manufacturing experience, Nissan Aria has a lot of innate advantages that are conducive to driving control, such as the body has a weight distribution of 50:50, the use of multi-link rear suspension, equipped with a new dual-motor all-wheel drive e-4ORCE technology, about this four-wheel drive system, it can achieve front and rear 1:9 or 9:1 torque distribution, This also means that nissan Ariaya is currently the only model on the market that can achieve such torque distribution except for the Tesla Model 3 Performance. However, according to the manufacturer, e-4ORCE technology does not deliberately pursue acceleration performance, but pays attention to the stable posture at the beginning, so everything is still based on comfort. In other respects, nissan Ariya's WLTC range may be 430km and 580km, which is not particularly long.
It is worth mentioning that Nissan Ariya and Toyota bZ4X are equipped with more practical driving assistance systems and intelligent car machines, the difference is that Nissan Ariya's ProPILOT 2.0 system is more practical, relying on sensors + high-precision maps, you can achieve high-level driving assistance functions similar to NOA high-speed pilot assistance, which may become a core advantage of its own in the future.
Japanese pure electricity pricing is more confident, and Volkswagen pure electricity focuses on cost performance
In the field of pure electric SUVs, Toyota and Nissan have some differences, but in general, there are many similarities, such as avant-garde, sports appearance to attract young people, under the creation of pure electric platform, driving control, power, intelligence have a high level. So combined with the price and product characteristics, when facing the Volkswagen pure electric SUV that is the first to enter the game, who performs better? Let's take the Volkswagen ID.4 X as an example.
First of all, it is certain that after Volkswagen entered the pure electric SUV market, it will put its posture very low, as a compact SUV, the price of Volkswagen ID.4 X less than 200,000 yuan is very reasonable, and there is no excessive premium, and the price of the long endurance version of the main sales model is between 220,000 and 250,000, and the endurance is more than 600km, and the high-performance four-wheel drive version is less than 280,000 yuan, which is more cost-effective.
In contrast, the Japanese pure electric SUV seems to be more confident in pricing, Toyota bZ4X pre-priced at 220,000-300,000 yuan, of course, positioning pure electric medium-sized SUV is more expensive than the Volkswagen ID.4 X is more reasonable, and the same pure electric compact SUV identity of Nissan Aria is also expected to be about 250,000 yuan, so overall it is slightly more expensive than the Volkswagen ID.4 X.
Compared with Toyota bZ4X, Volkswagen ID.4 X not only has a richer power system, but also has a more cost-effective configuration, such as the whole series is equipped with power seats, seat heating/ventilation, remote start, atmosphere lights, etc., less than 240,000 models are equipped with electric trunks, and the lighting configuration is almost full, more importantly, Volkswagen ID.4 X also has a special winter optional configuration, such as heat pump air conditioning, front windshield coating heating, front windshield antifreeze heating nozzle, etc., which is very practical for northern users. And these mentioned configurations, Toyota bZ4X is either not in the whole series, or only in high-end models, and the overall configuration level is lower than a grade.
Of course, the Japanese pure electric SUV still has certain advantages in the car system, Toyota bZ4X and Nissan Aria use logic, practicality, functional richness are better than the Volkswagen ID.4 X MOS car machine, in addition, volkswagen ID.4 X is not equipped with OTA function is undoubtedly in the current intelligent popularization of the market, is a small hard injury, for young consumers, it is difficult to get the freshness of the car in the future, may become a product drawback in the future.
epilogue:
From the above comparative analysis, we can see the basic tone of the future Japanese pure electric SUV products, all try to open the market through avant-garde design, excellent driving control and good technology, and hope to rely on their own brand reputation to occupy the "value" of pure electric SUVs, in this regard, we can see from the pre-price of Toyota bZ4X, I believe that Nissan, which has pure electric car manufacturing experience in the future, will also have a higher starting point. In contrast, volkswagen's pure electric SUV "posture" seems to be much lower, regardless of pricing, or configuration, are constantly highlighting their own cost performance, of course, this may also be to use the Japanese three strong in the pure electric SUV market has not yet fully developed the window period, quickly occupy the market, open their own reputation, but in any case, more competition, more brands of entry, for consumers is undoubtedly a good thing, so as for whose pure electric SUV products are stronger, now it seems that it is not so important.