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.
Many of the newer EV chemistries are Cobalt free. Even if they were not, batteries make up less than 3% of Cobalt market share. Most Cobalt is used in medial implants, magnetics (such as high fidelity speakers, pacemakers, and hearing aids) and the balance is used in the semi-conductor business. But the bulk consumer is medical implant alloys
Should call it the BZZZT.
That's the sound it'll make as it catches fire and burns your house down.
Electric Cars and Trucks have a place, as do hydrogen cars.
The Govt has used our tax dollars to Subsidize this new Tech and that is maybe ok.
At this time the market can easily decide what is the best value for people.
I only have 3 cars, which is the least I have had for a long time.
Each car has a specific purpose and I drive them depending on that.
I have considered adding an EV to my fleet, but I don’t yet see the benefit.
I never saw the benefit of changing out my incandescent bulbs for mercury filled florescent ones, but today I use mostly LED bulbs because they make all kinds sense, and the Govt did not even have to make me do it.
I still use some incandescent bulbs but that is cause they make better sense in those specific use cases, and it upsets me that the govt is actively trying to ban them
Rooting for Toyota. They are the ONLY company refusing to stop making gas-powered cars, and the Green Nazis are in an uproar over it. So sick of Tesla and its stupid, reckless dependence on batteries. Toyota CEO said much of the world will and should use gas for the forseeable future, and also wants to make cars with Hydrogen fuel cells, etc. And no plans to even stop making Priuses, which are the most efficient fuel cars. Sensible. So of course the left detests them and some are even boycotting them.
New charging adapter - CCS Combo 1 (CCS1) to Tesla proprietary standard is $250 to use others charge points. Remember when we paid money for the gasoline station adaptor..... 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Can’t drive it with the window down even a crack..
I once owned a sweet 87 Supra.
Put 300,000 miles on it and the engine still purred like the day I bought it.
Miss that car...
They all look the same to me.
My main complaint is there are no transition or recycling plans. The only plan the Greens have is outlawing items. No gasoline, no addition electricity production except by unreliable systems.
Sad to see Toyota starting to do this crap.
Can the vehicle drive autonomously?
Teslas are getting close.
Scary.
5.56mm
There are so many,I was told,because there are low electricity rates for EVs.
The EV Kool aid line is ever growing but I won’t get in the queue. It takes FIVE times the energy to build one of those contraptions. There’s no place to dispose of one ton batteries when their five year shelf life expires. The power that drives the charging stations is mostly coal driven... It’s insanity to support electric vehicles.
There’s always room for more stupid.........................
ALL car mfrs are doing it, even the exotics, Maserati, Ferrari, Lamborghini.............
“ALL car mfrs are doing it, even the exotics, Maserati, Ferrari, Lamborghini.”
Still sad, but expected since we no longer live in the Free World.
And now for a really good tale......
Last night on Acorn, I watched a New Zealand TV series Brokenwood that features murder mysteries. The plot revolved around a dead man that that been strapped to a table and killed by connection to an electric shock apparatus for treating mental disorders.
The problem was that the old building housing the former mental institution had no electric power and hadn’t had for years. The detectives made a search for power sources and just couldn’t find one
They finally found it. A Tesla was driven to near a window and a cable from the amp rich battery was brought into the room and hooked to the shock machine
We had........ murder by Tesla
The company is also the one that dominates many markets because it has cars that people want and do buy
That is, there are people not hung up on archaic thoughts of style
Ultra High Range 621 miles
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