One factor we didn’t know, nevertheless, was Toyota’s naming technique for its future lineup of EVs. This week we realized that the automaker has filed to trademark the BZ1, BZ2, BZ2X, BZ3, BZ4, BZ4X and BZ5 names, all registered beneath the Toyota BZ household. We’re guessing that the fashions with the X suffix will likely be used to designate a multi-motor, all-wheel-drive configuration. The letters BZ themselves stand for Past Zero, which is how the corporate named its initiative that goals at growing and selling numerous “zero emission” applied sciences resembling electrical automobiles and hydrogen gasoline cells.

The platform that can obtain these new merchandise is named e-TNGA (Toyota New International Structure) and is the results of a partnership between the Japanese large and its accomplice Subaru.

The usage of the BZ letters is comprehensible and clear sufficient, nevertheless it doesn’t precisely make for a memorable, seductive nomenclature for Toyota’s future EV roster. Not that they’re that rather more riveting elsewhere: there’s ID at Volkswagen, EV at Kia, i at BMW, EQ at Mercedes-Benz, and so forth.

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Toyota is making no official remark for now concerning the experiences of the BZ technique.

The primary all-electric Toyota will likely be a compact SUV in an RAV4 format. Will probably be unveiled on the finish of this month for the European market. Ultimately, we might see different physique kinds emerge, notably sedans, different SUVs and even vans. When the automaker introduced its plans, it previewed the six automobiles and we might see that they had been in numerous shapes.

In the meantime, Toyota’s luxurious model, Lexus, says it would have an electrified model of each mannequin it sells by 2025. It not too long ago gave a preview of its future electrical fashions with the LF-Z idea.

By the way, Toyota confirmed yesterday that the LF-Z idea will likely be unveiled on the Shanghai Motor Present, which takes place from April 21-28.

The subsequent factor on everybody’s brains will likely be what fashions make it to our market. Keep tuned.

Toyota’s six electrical automobile prototypes, fig. 2