TOYOTA Australia has introduced a variety of “thrilling and worthwhile” upgrades to its facelifted battery electrical bZ4X SUV.
Due in Aussie showrooms within the remaining quarter of 2025, the up to date bZ4X will function battery and motor enhancements, a bolstered driving vary, quicker acceleration, and design and gear revisions aimed toward enhancing worth for Toyota clients.
“Launching our first battery-electric car in 2024 was a historic second for Toyota, and a vital step on our multi-pathway journey to decarbonisation,” mentioned. Toyota Australia vice chairman of gross sales, advertising and franchise operations Sean Hanley.
“These upgrades to the bZ4X ship worthwhile enhancements for our clients, together with a rise in energy which is bound to place a smile on the motive force’s face.”
When it arrives Down Underneath, the up to date bZ4X line-up will supply a bigger 74.7kWh lithium-ion battery pack (up from 71.4kWh) , together with a rise in energy beginning with the two-wheel drive grade which will increase (entrance) motor output from 150kW to 165kW.
In the meantime, the all-wheel drive bZ4X will obtain a powerful 92kW enhance in system output, taking the tally to 252kW. The rise shaves a big 1.8 seconds from the mannequin’s 0-100km/h acceleration time, which drops to a nimble 5.1 seconds.
Toyota says that together with the modifications to efficiency and acceleration, the improved thermal management and pre-conditioning techniques now featured within the bZ4X will supply higher charging efficiency in chilly temperatures.
The Japanese importer had not, nevertheless, supplied particulars of the mannequin’s vary enhance, the bZ4X presently offering a driving vary of 436km (WLTP) in two-wheel drive kind and 411km (WLTP) in all-wheel drive guise.
Present variations of the bZ4X function 400-volt electrical structure aligned with Sort 2 CCS charging to supply an approximate AC cost time of seven hours (based mostly on 11kW enter) or DC cost time of half-hour (based mostly on 10-80 per cent high up at 150kW enter).
Elsewhere, modifications to the bZ4X embrace a “utterly up to date” cabin with a “extra fashionable and premium design” and new 14.0-inch multimedia touchscreen.
Exterior styling modifications embrace a newly revised frontal masks with developed Hammerhead styling motif and gloss-black wheel arch trims on each mannequin grades.
At present priced from $66,000 to $74,900 plus on-road prices, the Toyota bZ4X competes inside the SUV Medium over $60K section the place it rivals the likes of the Hyundai Ioniq 5 (from $69,800 +ORC), Kia EV5 (from $56,770 +ORC), Skoda Enyaq (from $69,990 +ORC), associated Subaru Solterra (from $69,990 +ORC), and Tesla Mannequin Y (from $63,400 +ORC).
To the tip of February, Toyota has offered 146 examples of the bZ4X domestically, putting it behind the Hyundai Ioniq 5 (174 items), Kia EV5 (689), and Tesla Mannequin Y (2331), however forward of the Skoda Enyaq and Subaru Solterra, every with 24 unit gross sales.
Toyota Australia is anticipated to announce additional specification, gear, and pricing particulars of the 2026 Toyota bZ4X nearer to the mannequin’s arrival in This fall of this yr.
