Toyota bZ4X Touring | Autocar
The bZ4X Touring’s a little over a foot longer than a regular Toyota bZ4X, stretched entirely within the rear overhang to the improvement of boot space. It’s got the conventional square rear end of an estate, and almost 50 per cent more cargo volume than its sister model, according to Toyota.
It also grants 11mm of additional ground clearance versus a base bZ4X – or 15mm if you go for the twin-motor model (available exclusively in the Touring bodystyle) on account of bigger alloy wheels as standard.
None of that stuff is at all curious, however; which brings us back to where we started a moment ago. The interesting technical differentiator for the Touring seems to be the slightly larger-capacity drive battery that it uses compared with the normal BZ4X.
Dive deep enough on Toyota’s online tech spec comparison tool and you’ll find evidence of it for yourself. Maybe the twin-motor version needed the extra capacity to supply enough current; or maybe CATL’s pouch cells had a model-year update shortly after the updated 2025 bZ4X hatchback went into production.
Toyota isn’t explaining, so we can only guess why it should be this way; and yet it isn’t secretive about the facts, either. “Usable capacity in a regular BZ4X FWD: 69kWh. In the Touring FWD: 71kWh”.
The thing is, that battery pack must also be lighter than the one in the regular car, as well as more energy dense. Because this estate – more than a foot longer than the car on which it’s based, remember, which is plenty of sheet steel, rubber and glass – is somehow between 20- and 30kg lighter, like for like, than a BZ4X ‘hatchback’.
It’s also rated for a WLTP Combined electric range of 367 miles, compared with the regular version’s 352.
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