{"id":34598,"date":"2022-10-26T09:03:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T13:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=34598"},"modified":"2022-10-26T09:03:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T13:03:44","slug":"1137607_toyota-bz3-electric-sedan-taps-byd-battery-tech-only-for-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=34598","title":{"rendered":"Toyota BZ3 electric sedan taps BYD battery tech\u2014only for China"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toyota has launched a second electric car, but it’s not coming to the United States.<\/p>\n

The Toyota BZ3 sedan was developed for the Chinese market under a joint venture between Toyota and Chinese automaker BYD, and will be produced and sold through Toyota’s older joint venture with Chinese firm FAW.<\/p>\n

The BZ3 is based on the same e-TNGA platform used by the Toyota BZ4X<\/a> crossover recently launched in the U.S. That platform was co-developed with Subaru, and also underpins that automaker’s Solterra electric crossover.<\/p>\n

\"New<\/p>\n

New Toyota BZ3<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Borrowing some styling elements from the BZ4X, the BZ3 is 1.4 inches longer than the crossover at 186.0 inches, with a 1.1-inch wheelbase stretch to 113.3 inches. At 72.2 inches, the BZ3 is 1.0 inch narrower than the BZ4X, and its 58.0-inch height is a whopping 11.0 inches lower than the crossover.<\/p>\n

Toyota also claims an impressive 0.21 coefficient of drag, which puts the BZ3 near the Lucid Air, Mercedes-Benz EQS sedan, and Tesla Model S, all at 0.20 to 0.21.<\/p>\n

While it’s based on the e-TNGA platform, the BZ3 uses lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery cells from BYD. Toyota didn’t list the pack size, but quoted a 372-mile range estimate, based on China’s CLTC testing cycle.<\/p>\n

\"New<\/p>\n

New Toyota BZ3 and BZ4X<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

BYD has long specialized in LFP chemistry, boasting of increased safety with its latest Blade battery<\/a>. The company doesn’t sell passenger cars in the U.S., but has marketed buses here, and is currently entering the European market\u2014with Tesla using BYD cells<\/a> in some vehicles from its new German factory.<\/p>\n

Toyota’s joint venture with FAW dates back to 2000, and was formed at a time when the Chinese government required foreign automakers to partner with local firms to sell cars in the country. FAW was also an investor in EV startup Byton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The BZ3 will likely remain a China-only model, and while Toyota is expected to launch other EVs in the U.S., the cadence of those launches is in doubt. According to a recent report, Toyota is reportedly pausing some future EVs<\/a> as it reevaluates some engineering choices\u2014potentially including the e-TNGA platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toyota has launched a second electric car, but it’s not coming to the United States. The Toyota BZ3 sedan was developed for the Chinese market under a joint venture between Toyota and Chinese automaker BYD, and will be produced and sold through Toyota’s older joint venture with Chinese firm FAW. The BZ3 is based on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}