Toyota bZ4X

This is the catalogue record of the Toyota bZ4X, one of 495 models Toyota has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 2022. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Toyota bZ4X properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2020s were the current era, in which battery-electric platforms, software-defined cars and China's rise as the world's largest producer are rewriting a century of industry order. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Nissan Nissan Z, the Kia Kia EV6, the Tesla Tesla Cybertruck — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Toyota bZ4X reads like this: the record lists its engine as electric motor; quoted output is Pre-facelift: / 150 kW (XEAM10) / 160 kW (YEAM15) / Facelift: / 122 kW (Standard Range FWD) / 165 kW (Long Range FWD) / 252 kW (Long Range AWD); kerb weight is recorded at 1910 –; drive goes through BluE Nexus "eAxle"; the layout is Front-motor, front-wheel-drive / Dual-motor, all-wheel-drive. Worked together, those figures give roughly 79 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Toyota story

Within Toyota's own catalogue the Toyota bZ4X sits alongside the Toyota Agya, the Toyota Calya, the Toyota Cami, the Toyota Duet. The record names the Toyota RAV4 EV as its predecessor, anchoring one end of its lineage. Design is credited to Katsuhiro Suzuki (chief designer) / Hirotada Kobayashi, Nobuhiko Honda, Tsuyoshi Oba, Junya Ono, and Hiroyuki Tada. Assembly is recorded at Japan: Toyota, Aichi (Motomachi plant) / China: Guangzhou (GAC Toyota); Tianjin (FAW Toyota until 2023) / Indonesia: Karawang Regency / Karawang, West Java (Toyota Motor Manufactur.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

The catalogue records what the Toyota bZ4X was; the ownership database records what it is like to own. MotorJury computes a verdict for every model year the United States federal record covers — complaints, recalls, real economy — refreshed nightly, with no opinions involved. If this car reached the American market, its verdicts are in there.