2026 Toyota bZ Pricing Starts More than $2000 Below 2025 Version
Equipped with a new name and a host of new electric motors, Toyota’s funky electric crossover shaves a little off the top.
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Toyota announced pricing for the 2026 bZ lineup, which cuts $2170 off the base price of last year’s car.
The 2026 lineup starts at $36,350 for the base trim and extends up to $46,750 for the Limited AWD trim at the top of the range.
Toyota reworked the bZ for 2026, with changes highlighted by increased power and significantly improved range.
Maybe customers thought “bZ4X” had too many syllables, and that led to Toyota chopping off the latter two—but, whatever the reason, Toyota has opted to rename its electric crossover to simply “bZ” for the 2026 model year. And the automaker went with a smaller price to go along with the shorter name—at least for the bottom half of the lineup.
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For the base trim, the 2026 bZ cuts $2170 off the price when compared with the 2025 model. That brings the starting price for the front-drive XLE to $36,350 when it’s equipped with the standard battery. Upgrading from the standard 57.7-kWh pack to the XLE Plus with its 74.7-kWh pack increases that figure by $3000, while adding AWD tacks on another $2000, bringing the XLE AWD to $41,350.
Unfortunately, the Limited models don’t offer the same olive branch as the XLEs. At the upper end of the lineup, the front-drive Limited trim nets a $44,750 starting price, making it $1500 more than the 2025 equivalent. Adding AWD means coughing up an additional $2000, bringing the Limited AWD to $46,750.
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Along with changing the name, Toyota made a whole slew of changes to the bZ. All the trims come equipped with an onboard NACS charging port, giving access to Tesla’s Supercharger network. Thanks to updated batteries and new electric motors, range and power are up for nearly every trim as well. The front-drive XLE Plus gets the largest rating of the bZ lineup at 314 miles, while the base XLE is forced to contend with a smaller battery and earns the worst estimate of the bunch at 236 miles.
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After a brief stint as a detailer for a local dealership group in college, he knew he needed a more permanent way to drive all the new cars he couldn’t afford and decided to pursue a career in auto writing. By hounding his college professors at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, he was able to travel Wisconsin seeking out stories in the auto world before landing his dream job at Car and Driver. His new goal is to delay the inevitable demise of his 2010 Volkswagen Golf.
