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The RZ 450e is Lexus’ first battery-powered EV. It shares a platform with the Toyota bZ4X, but has more horsepower and upscale interior touches. It only comes with all-wheel drive and promises up to 220 miles of range, if equipped with the standard 18-inch tires.
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No glove box? What were they thinking. On an electric car, where there is more space to put stuff, thank you frunk, how do they think there is coherence on not offering a glove box, and on a SUV, something that screams practicality! 😓
It has radiant heating. That’s why there is no glove box.
Personnally I never used the glove box, so it depends on your needs. I have the RZ and I love it.
190 miles of range…..yikes…..I’ll keep my Tesla
The smaller wheels get 220 miles of range and many people have gotten more than that in around town driving. But on highways or with the larger wheels, the range isnt enough and i dont see them selling too many of them in the us
Great review, Jen. Not a fan of the limited range or styling.
For that price I would expect more.
Thanks for the quick look at the RZ. You better get to those 142 Messages before folks get annoyed with you Jennifer.
Awesome design 💞
The RZ is one of the best EVs to drive but it’s undrivable most of the time
If charging stations are located every 100 miles then you want to stop every station with 220 miles range EV for long road trip.
Range killed this car
Thank you for great review and coverage.
I’ll give it a few years before I decide on a Lexus EV.
Good for Lexus for bringing an EV to market in record time. I’m sure the next iteration will be more competitive, especially if their promise of solid state batteries come true.
Not sure about the whole Record Time thing. They’re 15 years behind the first EV to have similar range, in fact, the 2008 I’m referring to had 25 more miles on a charge.
Way too expensive. My Leaf goes further for a third of the price.
Way too much for way too little.
Definitely Not good enough!!
Not sure how I feel about this, even as a Lexus super fan
Time to ditch Toyota/Lexus fort Tesla. That’s what the rest of us Lexus fans are doing. Ditch the Kodak camera for an apple smart phone
Too much $$$ for too little capability
I’m surprised she didn’t mention that the reason it doesn’t have a glove box is that it has radiant heating instead. It will be interesting to see if Toyota can catch up once it gets serious about building and EV. At this point they would need to give this a bigger battery to allow it to be competitive. The level two charging is slow on this which is another indicator that Toyota is making a half hearted attempt here.
Such a gorgeous car at a great price point. If only the range was at least 250
That interior door handle exit method is an odd design choice! It makes sense on paper, but as mentioned, guests are going to always be baffled!
I own one and the door handles are the best in practice I have used.