Toyota has a deep roster of hybrids, but with EVs it has mostly been content to watch from the stands (except for the RAV4 EV sold in California in 1997 and again in 2011). Now, Toyota steps up to the plate with a nationally available EV, the bZ4X, and it's a largely cautious effort that doesn't swing for the fences.
Although the name seems like a bad pull from the Scrabble letter bag, Toyota says bZ stands for "beyond Zero" emissions, while X indicates SUV. The 4 denotes the size, which is slightly longer and lower than a RAV4. The bZ4X was co-developed with the Subaru Solterra, which is almost identical inside and out.
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