Telsa and all "Tesla-killers" are the BEV equivalent to Porsche, Mercedes AMG and BMW M. Toyota does not compete against any of them, in fact in history the IS F (Lexus) was the only car to be a direct competitor, neither IS 500, RC F and GS F are. Not even GS300 (2JZ) has been a direct competitor to M5, nor the LS400 (1UZ) has been a direct competitor of V12 S Class and 7 Series. If Toyota did not compete against those in the ICEV-era, why are they expected to radically change in the BEV-era?
Any BEV that is usable now, will only be more usable in future when the charging infrastructure is even better. Will there be better BEVs? Yes, just as there are always better CPUs/GPUs. Doesn't make the older ones unusable. My Thinkpads easily serve me 10 years. My iPhones easily at least 5 years.
Tesla is not Porsche... Tesla is Toyota/VW.
Tesla's goal is wide market domination, this is why they have Model 3 and Model Y, which are very nicely priced vehicles... Next step will be a smaller, city/corolla like vehicle for $25k-$30k.
So problem that VW has is that people who are buying id3 and id4 are comparing it to Tesla's that are very similar in price, and nobody cares that VW has started late and it has 5 years to catch up.
Market is not fair... it is not fair that Tesla is outselling id3/id4 in Germany, who traditionally does not buy foreign vehicles and where most of loyal VW userbase is.
Same goes for Toyota - it looks like they did things better than VW, however if you drive EV today, you would not buy this first version of BZ4X because having 6.8kwh onboard charger is extremely dumb and you know it will be a problem when you are charging in shopping mall and need more time.
Second part of it, why would I drive FWD 8.4s 0-100kmh vehicle, when I can get Tesla or Hyundai or Kia that are much faster than that, for the same price? Because I can upgrade to Lexus for extar $15k and get 300hp?
That is the same problem that VW has, where they expect you to go Skoda > VW > Audi > Porsche and refuse features to lower brand that will enable them to sell against Tesla.
Again, Tesla is not niche... they are #1 competitor that has major share and that is exponentially growing.
Tesla will sell 2m cars next year, who knows how many 3-4 years from now.
All I am saying, if you are designing EV, you need to drive EV and understand problems that customers have with EVs so you can design it. This is definitely good first effort, but they are comparing it to id4 and not market leader.