Lexus’ 2023 RZ 450e disappoints, offering poor EV range and a bumpy ride | Ars Technica Spoiler: It's absolutely brutal. With under 200 miles of optimistic rance, and an ars indicated 150, it's just a bad car.
"Toyota representatives often tell us that they think it makes more sense to use what limited lithium-ion battery supplies they have to make lots of hybrids rather than fewer BEVs. And honestly, if this is the best BEV it can build, I am inclined to agree with them. In many ways I was even less impressed with the RZ than the Vinfast VF8 we reviewed last week. Neither is a particularly good BEV, but at least Vinfast has the excuse of not having built any cars before." With the IR heater you don't need gloves for your, um, legs.
In Canada, the radiant heater is only available on the $84,000 Executive trim. So the most popular trims don’t have a glovebox and won’t benefit from the reason why there’s no glovebox. Weird because a radiant heater is standard on all bZ4Xes except the base L trim in Canada.
