Every car is an argument about what matters, and the Toyota bZ3 makes its case with lithium iron phosphate battery and 135 –. Toyota built from 2023 — in the decade the industry is turning electric.
The story
The Toyota bZ3 is a battery electric compact sedan jointly developed by Toyota, BYD Auto and FAW Toyota through the BYD Toyota EV Technology (BTET) joint venture and produced in China since 2023. It is the first battery electric sedan by Toyota, and the first sedan from the bZ series.
What is underneath
The engine is lithium iron phosphate battery; the output is 135 –. On the scales it comes to 1710 –. That is roughly 79 horsepower per tonne: unhurried — enough for the job, not for the bragging. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2880 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
In the Toyota line-up the Toyota bZ3 has a clear place: the factory was Tianjin (FAW Toyota), China. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Kia EV6, the Proton S70, the Kia EV5. Nearby in the Toyota catalogue sit the Toyota Agya and the Toyota Calya.