Posted on 09/22/2022 1:20:17 PM PDT by Red Badger
The Toyota electric sedan will begin its journey in China, with European sales likely to follow in 2024.
Toyota has made it clear time and time again that it has no interest in rushing into fully electric cars. However, it will listen to its customers and follow the market's needs. In order to chip away at some of Tesla's growing market share in China and Europe, the Japanese automaker is ready to bring its fully electric sedan to market.
As Toyota slowly moves forward with EVs, it has developed its own proprietary global platform that's designed for electric cars from the ground up. The E-TNGA platform will serve as the foundation for a number of Toyota electric vehicles going forward.
The first fully electric Toyota vehicle on the E-TNGA platform is the bZ4X compact SUV. The automaker actually already started delivering the new model, however, there's now a global delay to the launch of the electric crossover due to a recall for a wheel-mounting concern.
According to Autocar, Toyota CEO and president Akio Toyoda shared last year that the bZ4X would be followed by a long list of future Toyota EVs. One such vehicle was known as the bZ Sedan when it was still a concept, though the publication believes Toyota will officially call it the bZ3.
The Toyota bZ3 electric sedan will enter the Chinese EV market soon. It's expected to perform well in China since there's a high demand for sporty sedans. Sales in Europe are expected to begin as early as 2024. There are currently several new electric models working to take market share away from Tesla, and the bZ3 will join the bandwagon to rival the Tesla Model 3.
According to information published on China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology website, the bZ3 will be available with two powertrains making either 178 or 238 bhp. The EV will weigh 1710-1840 kg and have a top speed limited to 99 mph.
It's also important to note that thanks to Toyota's partnership with BYD, the bZ3 is expected to employ the company's Blade lithium iron phosphate battery tech. The battery tech is reported to have a high energy density while being safer than other chemistries. With energy-dense batteries, the battery pack can be smaller, which allows for more interior space.
The children of the Congo will have to work 80 hours a week now.
There has to be a reason why the most reliable car company also is the most UGLY car company..
I don't know. I'm more of a fan of NIOs ET5.
“The children of the Congo will have to work 80 hours a week now.”
Straight from the WEF and Amnesty Internationalmas reported by Mother Jones.
Also, Toyota has the lamest logo. It looks like a caricature of a sombrero (which may be on purpose if that's where the intend to manufacture most of their cars).
The largest lithium mine is in Mexico. Second is in Nevada.
come up with a Plug standard.
The Euroversion sucks - backkwards compatible to stuff that no longer runs.
Tesla’s plug works great cuz the magic piece is on the car, not the phookin handle.
diesel and petrol have two different size spouts.
fine.
But pick a plug standard so a nation wide rollout could be easier.
Toyota stylists have been eating crazy pills for at least the past five years.
You want Ferrari styling on a Toyota budget?
Just shows you don’t understand marketing and pricing.
If it was an ICE car, I’d be interested. Electric? Fuggetaboutit.
https://www.mining-technology.com/marketdata/ten-largest-lithiums-mines-2021/
None are in Mexico or US
A lot of people criticize the new Supra styling but I like it. Wouldn’t like BMW drivetrain and electronics repair bills though.
I read somewhere that every letter in the word Toyota is in that logo.
All of my Toyota’s have had a “TOYOTA” logo on the grill, but then I don’t drive lame-mobiles (like sedans, minivans...)
And yes, the upside down twig n berries looks stupid.
Can’t EVs just live together ,LOL
So now they’re all destroying the auto industry over a pipe-dream of all electric vehicles, huh? We need an “all of the above” strategy to solve our energy problems, not a one size fits all that won’t work. They see a quick jackpot in this all electric scheme and they don’t care about the down the road issues that will arise.
Just when I thought this country couldn’t get more stupid...
Like Tesla, my Hyundai's "magic piece" (the charger controller) is in the car. What we call the "wall charger" is really just the EVSE (Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment) putting AC into the car's port leading to the car's charge controller. That lets me comport to generic standards with equipment outside the car -- but let me have the Hyundai-specific cool configurations with charging once the power is inside the car.
Like right now it's charging at only 5kW so that my house load doesn't exceed 18kW while I'm also running my oven and clothes dryer (and various incidentals). I set that within the car, not at the EVSE on the wall. Same with charge stop amount (i.e. 80% or 100%), scheduling (i.e. after peak hours if I was charged time of day rates and didn't have solar), and departure time (i.e. if I want it charged to 100% but time it to being fully charged right before I leave for a trip, while you're at it run the A/C to cool the cabin too right before I depart).
They’ll need to come up with a better name. b3Z4? Really?
Yeah, that seems like the right way to do it. Have the wall power supply be fairly simple and standardized with a defined interface that doesn’t change often, and then let the onboard charging system be the “smart” part that evolves and changes.
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