Featured Toyota Is Launching Its First EV Called BZ SUV

the first from Totota ? then
What were THESE - from the 1990's mostly .... and SOME of these are still running around the landscape - albeit with diminished capacity being as old as they are.



here's to hoping Toyota will do well - with this latest iteration 2 decades later. btw, the "BZ" is actually a collaboration with Subaru - and eventually they too, be using the same platform for their own branded EV. The adds for the BZ say NOTHING about range. Hopefully Toyota learned from tbeir Scion IQ-EV fail that mass markets do NOT want another golf cart range EV.
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not available in north america- <yawn>

 

There used to be 4 of these at the Toyota plant in Kentucky in the 1990's for internal plant use. I completely forgot about them until hill's above post

"We're always innovating.
The Toyota RAV4 EV was discontinued in 2014, but Toyota remains committed to the electrification of vehicles. While we've stopped producing RAV4 EV, our engineers remain hard at work developing the next generation of battery technology, so the future is bright. And if you're a current RAV4 EV owner, you'll still get great service from your Authorized Toyota RAV4 EV Dealer."

Blast from the past- 2010 article

Toyota, Tesla Resurrect the Electric RAV4 | WIRED

 

Our neighbor has a GenII RavEV that i see most days while taking Buck on his evening walks;



Fun fact - differing from the Gen 1 in that Toyota commissioned Tesla to build the guts of these vehicles ... GenII was way more powerful than gen 1, & like Tesla, actually has liquid cooling (Gen1 was air cooled) & sported a 40kWh traction pack. But for the fact that it is software limited, these suckers would REALLY be able to scream - as they have the same motor as the Model S.
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You'd think with fenders as ugly as that they'd be targeting the US market? It's truly astonishing how every year Toyota finds a way to make their car designs even uglier than than the last year. Even a flipping Tesla Truck has cleaner lines than this abomination.

 

I read somewhere BZ means Beyond Zero in these new vehicles.
I hope they mean much more than that, a true bet in BEVs.

 

We have a guy here in NJ that has one and he called Toyota dealers all over the state to finally find one that'll work on it.