Video Summary
Here is the requested summary of the YouTube video:- The 2024 Toyota bZ4X all-wheel-drive battery has been enhanced, with the biggest change being a water-to-water heat exchanger and a new heating adjustment valve to the 72.8-kilowatt-hour pack.
- The above upgrades improve the battery's charging performance in cold temperatures, and also boosts the peak charging rate from 100 kilowatts, to 150.
- The updated version is light years ahead of last year's model.
- Previously, when testing a 2023 all-wheel-drive bZ4X, it took three hours and twelve minutes to go from a 0% state of charge to 95%.
- The charger estimated that it would take 90 minutes to charge the last 5%. It was described as an abysmal performance; the worst the reviewer had ever seen.
- For the test procedure, the video team drive on the highway for thirty minutes to warm the battery pack prior to engaging a DC fast charger.
- The DC fast charger delivers at least as many kilowatts of juice as the vehicle can accept to ensure the charger is not the limiting factor.
- The Toyota bZ4X needs just one hour and eight minutes to charge from a 5% battery to 100%.
- The charge from 10% to 80% takes thirty-six minutes, nearly twice as fast as the 2023 model.
- During the 2024 test, a camera was knocked over by the wind.
- In this test, the Toyota bZ4X absorbed around 62.5 kilowatt hours of electricity in sixty-eight minutes. This cost a grand total of $37.02, at a rate of 59 cents per kilowatt-hour.
