Toyota has a lineup of electric vehicles coming under the BZ name, for Beyond Zero. The first will be an electric crossover, which will debut for Europe at the Shanghai auto show next Sunday, April 18, at 9:20 p.m., to compete with other EV crossovers from Tesla, Ford, and VW. The U.S. version should make its debut later this year.
This electric
crossover, which will be built on an electric platform co-developed by Toyota
and Subaru, has similar styling to one of the six concept vehicles Toyota
showed in 2019. It’ll have thin, jagged headlights, possibly stretching down
over the front wheel arches (as seen on a similar concept), and it sports a
blue Toyota badge. Toyota trademarked a blue BZ logo in Europe, which we expect
will be saved for other exterior badging.
The Beyond Zero
models’ names will all start with BZ and be followed by a number. In that way
it’s similar to the naming scheme for Kia’s coming electric vehicles, which
use “EV” followed
by a number. Toyota recently filed trademarks in the U.S. for the names BZ1,
BZ2, BZ2X, BZ3, BZ4, BZ4X, and BZ5. We suspect that the “X” is reserved for
dual-motor, all-wheel-drive models, and this crossover could definitely be one
of the models to offer that setup.
We’ll know more
about Toyota’s first electric BZ
model next week, when it debuts for the Europe market, and we should hear more
about the U.S.-bound version later this year. Sedans, and even vans, will join
the Beyond Zero lineup as well.
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