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Sales of Wuling Hongguang MINI have repeatedly reached record highs in the domestic market, which also confirmed that mini pure electric vehicles can have a good domestic market, including Citroen also officially unveiled a mass-produced version of Citroen Ami in China a few days ago. According to media reports, the Toyota brand recently launched a mini electric car with a mileage 150km for the first time.

It is understood that the car is named C+pod and is positioned as a minicar. It looks a lot like the Baojun E200, which is actually a mass-produced version of the Ultra-Compact BEV unveiled at last year's Tokyo Motor Show. At present, the new car has been launched in Japan, a total of two new car configurations, the price is 165-1.716 million yen (about 10.4-108000 yuan). According to Toyota officials, Toyota C+pod will be sold first to Japanese local governments, companies and other agencies, and then to private consumers in 2022. It has not yet said whether it will be listed in other regions.

In appearance, the design of the car is very small, with a body size of only 2490 x 1290 x1550mm and a wheelbase of 1780mm, which is even smaller than that of the Wuling Hongguang MINI. But it is also very in line with the environment of the Japanese region. The new car uses a two-door, two-seat design, the slender headlights on the front face are connected by the car logo LOGO, the blackened panels occupy almost most of the front face, and the charging port is below the LOGO. It is understood that this is to effectively reduce the weight of the car body, so that the weight of the whole vehicle is only 690 kg.

From the side, the new car uses two-color collocation, and the place of the wheel eyebrow is specially designed to be raised and decorated with black stripes. But from slightly simple wheels and a large area of plastic to occupy the whole car, there is a feeling of cheapness. And the rear part of the overall design elements and the front echo, so that the vehicle design style is more coordinated, more unified, not too much sense of disobedience.

The interior of the new car is also simple, the center console uses a physical button design, and is equipped with a small LCD screen to view vehicle information, coupled with the three-frame steering wheel does not have too many buttons, it can be said that the car is very pragmatic. Although the new car is only a two-seater model, but the back row can also have a certain carrying capacity, transport some luggage to meet the owner's Nissan use.

According to the dynamic parameters exposed by "Carview", the new car is equipped with a permanent magnet synchronous motor with peak power of 9.2kW, with a maximum torque of 56N ·m and a maximum speed of 60km/h. The car uses 200V/16A 's charging socket and can be filled in five hours.

In any case, Toyota's new car is actually an "elderly scooter", but in this more special car environment in Japan, there may be some market demand. Not only in Japan, the demand for mini electric vehicles in the domestic market is also rising. As more and more car companies deploy mini electric models in China, and the rising sales of Wuling Hongguang MINI have proved that there is some potential in China, but the price of the first Wechat electric car like Toyota is as high as 100000 yuan, and it is difficult to shake the market of Wuling Hongguang MINI if it is to be listed in the domestic market.

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