Paddy Gower, Valerie Adams and Gemma McCaw take EV doubters out in Toyota bZ4X series
Toyota NZ's three-part Far Out. It's Electric. series puts friends and family with doubts about EVs in a bZ4X with Paddy Gower, Dame Valerie Adams and Gemma McCaw.
Toyota New Zealand has launched a three-part online video series in which Paddy Gower, Dame Valerie Adams and Gemma McCaw take friends and family members with doubts about EVs out in a bZ4X.
In Far Out. It’s Electric., Gower takes Jon mountain biking, Adams and Angie help run a school athletics day in South Auckland, and McCaw goes on a road trip with Bev. The episodes cover charging, range and whether an EV suits a busy family.
Gower, like Adams and McCaw a Toyota brand ambassador, has driven a bZ4X for about 18 months.
“I’ve lost count of the number of people who’ve told me why they wouldn’t own an EV. Often, they’re repeating something they’ve heard rather than something they’ve experienced,” he says. “It was just a chance to see what living with an EV actually looks like and whether some of those assumptions stack up.”
Toyota sells battery electric, plug-in hybrid, hybrid and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles here, and says the series is not intended to push buyers towards an EV. In October, it registered 117 new battery electric vehicles, up from five a year earlier, including 71 bZ4X Touring wagons and 43 bZ4Xs.
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