My opinion of the BZ is the same as the RZ, great for those wanting an LEXUS EV, but not really to shock your pants off if you already are in the EV space.
Im considering it, but i want to see where the pricing chips lie. If its going to command a 60k figure price tag.
problem is going to be battery size and thus the range.
Performance seems to be just fine, 5.6s 0-100kmh stated in Europe is good. It will be likely even less in real life.
FWD bias? That is what NX/RX customers like. So that is fine.
But 400km of range vs competitors doing 500km-550km? It is a huge difference.
This is not a city car, even though it matters there too.
They should have put a minimum of 80kwh battery, and 90kwh would have shown ambition to match competitors.
All the Japanese companies are being stupid, Mazda with their CX-30 and Honda with Honda e, nobody is buying those cars because range in terrible and it is not what market wants. Honda e looks beautiful in every other way.
This looks awesome, and I am sure Lexus is trying to position it as 2nd car in the family, so why would you ever need more?
Again, because they dont drive EVs, they dont understand the market.
Otherwise, everything looks acceptable, even 150kw charging is fine, it is not awesome but it is fine if it charges car in 30m to 80%. Peak power does not matter, it is sustaining that load over full charging range.
In most EVs, charging rate starts dropping after 50%, so even if you are at 350kw charger, at 60% you might be charging at 130kw, and at 82% you are at 50kw. That 350kw to 150kw difference is used only between 0% and 30% at best.