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On April 25, Guangzhou Auto Toyota's new model bZ4X was officially unveiled. The new car is positioned as a pure electric medium-sized SUV, based on Toyota's new e-TNGA architecture. According to the latest news from Guangzhou Auto Toyota today, the new car will start pre-sale on the 28th of this month, and will be put into production and officially listed in June.

The Guangzhou Auto Toyota bZ4X was first unveiled at the Shanghai Auto Show and the 4th China International Import Expo in April and November 2021, respectively. In the middle of this month, the Guangzhou Automobile Toyota bZ4X appeared in the latest declaration catalogue of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Combined with the real car of this appearance, the new car highly restores the design of the bZ4X CONCEPT concept car. As a brand new pure electric medium-sized SUV, the new car abandons the traditional design of Toyota, and the overall shape of the new car is more avant-garde. Specifically, the front face of the new car has distinct lines, using a semi-enclosed design, which looks like a hammer shark shape, with a radical penetrating C headlamp group, and a penetrating styling design around the lower part, with a high degree of recognition of the overall personality.

On the side of the body, the new car has smooth lines and uses a two-color body. in addition, the new car is equipped with 18-inch double five-spoke rims and black painting at the arch. In terms of size, the length, width and height of the new car are 4690/1860/1650mm and the wheelbase is 2850mm.

In the rear part, the new car uses the popular through-type LED taillights and uses a slip-back styling with spoiler design, which looks young and sporty.

In the interior part, the new car owner uses a simple style, the new car uses a large area of fabric on the center console, and the steering wheel is Toyota's traditional design technique. the new car is equipped with a 12.3-inch floating central control screen, and some physical keys are retained below. the two styles of machinery and technology blend well together.

In terms of power, the new car will provide front-drive and four-wheel drive power forms, of which, the front-drive version motor maximum power 150kW (204Ps), 0-100km/h acceleration 8.4 seconds, before and after the four-wheel drive version of the maximum motor power is 80kW (109Ps), 0-100km/h acceleration 7.7s. In terms of competition, the launch of the new car is expected to compete with models such as Tesla Model Y and ES6.

BZ4X is Toyota's new pure electric vehicle, and the bZ in bZ4X is "beyond Zero" in English. This series of models are all pure electric vehicles. As early as November last year, Toyota confirmed that both Guangzhou Automobile Toyota and Yifeng Toyota will sell bZ4X models. At present, whether it is Guangzhou Automobile Toyota or FAW Toyota, the new car name is "bZ4X". As for whether the official Chinese name will be released, it is not known, but what can be predicted is As the new cars are made by different manufacturers, there may be slight differences in the details of the two new cars in the future.

When it comes to Toyota, everyone will think of the slogan "Toyota can drive well, one car can be passed on for three generations", and Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda is a staunch opponent of pure electric cars. Before December 2021, it can be said that Akio Toyoda was not interested in electric cars until December 14, 2021, when he unveiled a strategy presentation for battery electric vehicles with 15 new electric vehicles and announced a 10-year-old electric vehicle plan. At the time, Akio Toyoda also announced that he would invest $35 billion in electric vehicle research by 2030, before Toyota would launch 30 electric vehicles worldwide and sell 3.5 million vehicles. Among them, in the Chinese market, Toyota and Lexus will introduce 35 new electric products in 2025, including 10 pure electric models, and by 2035 Lexus will only sell electric vehicles, that is, fully transformed into pure electric brands.

In terms of specific product planning, according to Toyota's previous plan, Toyota will launch five pure electric models based on the e-TNGA platform by 2025, including three SUV, one station wagon and two MPV, with the product name using the bZ+ number, "X" stands for SUV, and Toyota will have 10 BEV products in China. With the gradual promotion of new energy vehicles, future electrification has become a consensus in the development of the automobile industry. Although Toyota has also launched pure electric vehicles such as CH-R EV in China, it is basically a "fuel to electricity" model. The listing of the new electric vehicle bZ4X means that Toyota has officially entered the field of pure electricity, while Toyota is a car company with slow electrification transformation. It is still uncertain whether the pure electric SUV can bring new breakthroughs to its sales volume in the future.

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