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CTOnews.com October 8 news, in October last year, Toyota officially released the first model of the bZ pure electric series, the bZ4X, which is also the first model of the Toyota brand to open the road to electrification, so it has always attracted a lot of attention, while FAW Toyota and Guangzhou Auto Toyota have also opened pre-sale in China.

In June, Japanese safety regulators found that Toyota's bZ4X could lead to loose rim bolts and the risk of wheels falling off during sharp turns and emergency brakes. It took Toyota months to solve the problem and recalled and bought back more than 2700 new cars.

Nikkei said last week that Toyota had concluded its investigation and announced that it would make partial changes to the vehicle design to improve safety. The production line at the Wonmachi factory in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, is expected to restart in mid-October.

It is said that Toyota bZ4X wheels will be fixed with hub bolts to replace the previous bolts. The use of hub bolts has the advantages of reducing body weight, so some Lexus models use hub bolts to fix the wheels.

In addition, the first production line of Toyota's global electric vehicle manufacturing base, the Wonmachi plant in Japan, which is also the exclusive production line of MIRAI, bZ4X and Subaru Solterra models, resumed production in mid-September and is expected to resume sales to the global market as soon as October.

There are a number of media reports that GAC Toyota bZ4X will go public on October 10. The pre-sale price after the subsidy announced earlier is 22-300000 yuan.

As a sister model of FAW Toyota bZ4X, the new car is also positioned as pure electric medium-sized SUV, which is also the first model built by Guangzhou Automobile Toyota based on e-TNGA exclusive architecture. CLTC comprehensive operating mode mileage can provide 400km, 500km, 560km, 615km four options.

CTOnews.com has reported that the bZ4X, jointly developed by Toyota and Subaru, is Toyota's first mass-produced electric model. After resuming production, bZ4X and Subaru Solterra combined produced about 1000 vehicles in October and about 6000 to 7000 in November.

According to public information, this model positioning pure electric medium-sized SUV,2850mm ultra-long wheelbase, 1000mm rear space, but also has high-performance soundproof glass, wind noise reduction measures and so on.

Guangzhou Automobile Toyota bZ4X uses the bZ series exclusive new design language, provides the front version and the four-wheel drive version optional, the CLTC life up to 615km, and the official claim that the battery pack can still maintain 90% battery capacity after 10 years, equipped with X-MODE four-wheel drive system, Grip-Control intelligent multi-road adaptation system, TSS 3.0 and so on.

"Toyota has found a solution to the problem of wheel shedding of the electric SUV bZ4X and will restart production."

"Toyota bZ4X starts pre-sale with a subsidy of 22-300000 yuan."

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