The other anomaly is that the BZ4X is the only EV I have tested that doesn’t display its battery’s state of charge as a percentage. Oh, there’s a “gas tank” gauge monitoring the SoC and also a range estimator, but the first is so tiny as to be useless; and the latter, while accurate, is based almost entirely on your current driving habits.
I have to wonder if that lack of a specific SoC meter will catch a few people out. Say you’ve been driving around all day in stop-and-go traffic, brake regen and modest consumption maximizing your efficiency. With the range meter estimating you’ve got 50 kilometres left in the “tank,” you confidently jump on the highway knowing home is but 40 klicks down the road.
There may come a day when we don’t need such exacting SoC displays, but that time isn’t now. Oddly, Toyota makes that percentage SoC part of a Toyota app, but it’s nowhere to be found in the BZ4X’s hardware. Hopefully, it will take just a software update to fix it.
I suspect the biggest criticism the bz4X will face is its charging speed. The FWD model’s peak 150-kilowatt charging speed is the same as Ford’s Mustang Mach-E and BMW’s iX xDrive50. The top-of-the-line AWD version — again, its battery built by a different supplier — is limited to just 100 kW. That’s the lowest peak charging ability of any recently introduced electric vehicle.
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