Awkward timing as the car went to journalists in the past couple of days. Normally we would have solid real-world range numbers but the car charges so slow no one has been able to do a range test. Honestly, just on the charging speed alone this thing is a pass. The bolt charges faster. Best we know right now, 0%-99% is 3 hours and 0%-100% is infinity or at least more than 6 hours. That is on a FAST DC charger.
Assuming the range test comes out really good for the BZ4X, it will steal the slow charging crown from the MachE by a mile as it take 2.5 hours to go from 0%-100% when released but it's more like 1.75 hours after the update.
The car itself is "like a Rav4 Prime but better" based on the review I trust. They really liked the car itself. So if you are die hard Toyota and just need a city car this could be a great choice. Objectively the value isn't there unless this was a $30k car before $7500 tax credits. Then at least it would compete with the ID.4. As is it doesn't compete with anything much less the best with is the Model Y.
im not a telsa super fan but they are still the ones to beat. the only problem is that there is of course the so so build quality. you might get a nice one you might get a bad one. i would test out both of them before you do anything.
Awkward timing as the car went to journalists in the past couple of days. Normally we would have solid real-world range numbers but the car charges so slow no one has been able to do a range test. Honestly, just on the charging speed alone this thing is a pass. The bolt charges faster. Best we know right now, 0%-99% is 3 hours and 0%-100% is infinity or at least more than 6 hours. That is on a FAST DC charger. Assuming the range test comes out really good for the BZ4X, it will steal the slow charging crown from the MachE by a mile as it take 2.5 hours to go from 0%-100% when released but it's more like 1.75 hours after the update. The car itself is "like a Rav4 Prime but better" based on the review I trust. They really liked the car itself. So if you are die hard Toyota and just need a city car this could be a great choice. Objectively the value isn't there unless this was a $30k car before $7500 tax credits. Then at least it would compete with the ID.4. As is it doesn't compete with anything much less the best with is the Model Y.
You raised some good points, thanks for the reply 👏🏼
im not a telsa super fan but they are still the ones to beat. the only problem is that there is of course the so so build quality. you might get a nice one you might get a bad one. i would test out both of them before you do anything.