Toyota BZ3 is a Corolla-size electrical sedan for China

Toyota on Monday revealed the following member in its new BZ household of electrical automobiles, a compact sedan developed solely for the Chinese language market.

Known as the BZ3, the automotive is a joint effort between Toyota and its two Chinese language joint-venture companions, BYD and FAW, and manufacturing will even be dealt with in China.

The BZ3 is among the a number of EVs Toyota offered final December in idea kind. The idea previewing the BZ3 was known as the BZ SDN.

It incorporates a good-looking design clearly influenced by the 2023 BZ4X compact crossover offered within the U.S., which was the primary member of the BZ household. Just like the BZ4X, the BZ3 incorporates a visor-like entrance finish and character traces that look like fashioned by geometric shapes. Components just like the entrance air curtains, flat door handles, and aero-optimized wheels assist scale back air resistance, leading to a low drag coefficient of 0.218 cd.

The inside design follows a clear, minimalist theme, and is dominated by a big, portrait-oriented infotainment display screen within the heart stack. There’s additionally a rotary dial controller within the heart console, which serves because the gear shifter, whereas a hexagonally formed steering wheel options extra controls.

The BZ3 measures roughly 186 inches lengthy, or a bit over an inch longer than a Tesla Mannequin 3, and the highest velocity is roughly 100 mph. Drive comes from a single electrical motor on the rear axle, rated at both 181 hp or 240 hp, relying on the grade.

The platform is Toyota’s e-TNGA design, which options within the BZ4X and associated Subaru Solterra and Lexus RZ fashions. The battery, nevertheless, comes from BYD and is claimed to ship greater than 300 miles of vary. It is a lithium-ion unit with a lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) cathode, a cheap different to different cathode supplies.

The BZ3 is because of begin gross sales in China in 2023.

Count on extra BZ fashions to be revealed within the close to future as Toyota has confirmed seven members for the BZ household. In saying the brand new BZ3, Toyota additionally teased a BZ sedan or crossover that includes a coupe-like profile.