The 2023 Toyota bZ4X is not the Japanese automaker?s first EV on U.S. soil. It?s been peddling the Toyota RAV4 EV in California since 1997, and it even worked with Tesla for the second-gen RAV4 EV unveiled in 2012. However, the all-new bZ4X is Toyota?s first EV riding on an exclusive e-TNGA platform shared with Subaru for the Solterra EV. And instead of the old RAV4 EV?s California-only sales pitch, the new bZ4X will hit U.S. Toyota dealerships across all 50 states nationwide.

Toyota?s daring styling idiom for the bZ4X is worthy of praise, and we?re confident it has Toyota-levels of quality, reliability, and family-friendly accouterments. A better question is will the bZ4X make a compelling argument against dazzling competitors like the Hyundai Ioniq 5, Ford Mustang Mach-E, VW ID.4, Tesla Model Y, Kia EV6, Kia Niro, and the Hyundai Kona Electric"
2023 Toyota bZ4X: What?s New"

The 2023 Toyota bZ4X is an all-new, five-passenger, all-electric crossover developed jointly with Subaru, a partnership that bore fruit in the past with the still-not-turbocharged GR86 and BRZ sports cars. Unlike the Solterra?s planetary name origins, the bZ4x name is short for ?beyond Zero? and 4X. The latter, in Toyota-speak, indicates a compact crossover SUV like the RAV4.

The bZ4X is the first Toyota to launch under the global bZ series, said the automaker, and it plans to debut 15 battery-electric vehicles by 2025 ? seven of which will spawn from the bZ family. The bZ4X is lo...