Toyota bz4X

When is the new solid state battery supposed to be ready for the BZ4X?

Other companies are on the verge of bringing out a solid state battery. Surely Toyota can't be far off the mark as well.

I thought I saw somewhere that some mainstream car manufacturers were close to going in to production. Waffle I suppose. 2030 is a bit aways. But a Toyota sales rep did say to me that they could be around in 2 years.

is that not for the CV4x

More FUD from Toyota. Slippery slop they're on here.

First of all you need to understand business. Companies come with new options when they are in trouble. America came with Tesla when their car companies were in trouble. Ford's selling is now half in Ireland. Other american companies have got a bad reputation such as Jeep etc.. So they came with Tesla and got number one. What about Toyota. There is tie up with OPEC countries and every Arab family has a Land Cruiser in their front of the house. A lot of politics going on between OPEC and America. What about Toyota sales. Last year, they had record profit and record sales. If I open my front door, what I can see all the new registrations are Toyota hybrids. Then in premium segment. People are moving away from BMWs and Benz. In America, rich people are nowadays buying Lexus. Here in Ireland also, I can see lots of new Lexus on the road. Because media says, a Lexus is made to run forever. Due to these reasons, I dont see arrival of solid state battery in the next 5 years. I found that China's NIO is building one. But last month Elon Musk visited Beijing and begged in front of Chinese Premier.

How many sets of tyres before the unicorn battery arrives?

Looking at the "glass half full", it wouldn't be a bad thing they recalled the car.

It is great that they are finding possible issues a d fix them before they become critical. Hiding things under the carpet would probably be worse.

Every time I go to my local Toyota garage there's coffee, free Internet, a desk is always available to bring my work laptop with me, absolutely no bother. However we are talking about Tuam, County Galway. I guess it woukd be a bit more difficult to find all these closer to Dublin, due to the higher volume of customers.

All in all, not a deal breacker IMHO

The wheels used to fall off these, Toyota saw its fixed now, probably.

(I wish I was joking about the wheels)

Once you service it with them every year, they extend the warranty which I'd handy alright.

The chances of needing a motor replaced before needing a battery replaced would be very slim in my opinion.

When EV's start getting scrapped down the road, it won't be because of batteries or motors failing..

In fairness though, the average Toyota buyer isn't going to have a great deal of knowledge of all things EV, despite thinking they've been driving an 'EV' for the last 10 years in their self charging hybrid…