Every Toyota bZ4X sold in the UK takes a Type 2 to Type 2 Charging Cable, plugged into a flap on the front left wing, and the 32A single phase version is the right order on all of them. What decides how much of that cable the car can actually use is the build date, not the battery. Toyota UK's press pack for the bZ4X states the car launched with a 6.6 kW onboard charger and that from Q4 2022 production an 11 kW three phase unit replaced it. A 6.6 kW ceiling is the sort of figure a plug-in hybrid carries, and it sits below the 7.4 kW a British house can deliver, so the very first bZ4X is one of the few electric cars sold here that cannot draw everything a home wallbox offers. Every car built after that can, and the 2026 Excel goes past it.

Picking the right Toyota bZ4X charging cable

The one to order on every bZ4X: the 32A single phase cable. The menu above calls it 32amp (7.2kW), and 7.4 kW is what it passes. An early car accepts 6.6 kW of it and needs 11 hours to put back roughly 64 kWh of usable capacity, worth around 33 miles for each hour it is connected. A car built from late 2022 accepts the whole 7.4 kW and covers the same battery in 9 hours 45 minutes at about 37 miles an hour, while the 2026 car, holding 69 kWh usable behind its 73.1 kWh badge, wants 10 hours 30 minutes. Earns its price on two versions only: the 32A three phase cable. At a house it returns precisely what the cheaper lead returns, because a domestic supply in Britain arrives on one phase and the second and third cores have nothing to meet. Find a real three phase feed at an office car park or a depot and an 11 kW bZ4X comes down to 6 hours 30 minutes. Take a 2026 Excel, the one grade Toyota fits with a 22 kW onboard charger, to a 22 kW Type 2 post and it is done in 3 hours 30 minutes, a rare case of a car using every amp the cable can pass. The false economy: the 16A cable. Listed as 16amp (3.6kW), it caps every bZ4X at 3.7 kW, meaning 19 hours 30 minutes for the 71.4 kWh car and 21 hours for the 2026 73.1 kWh car. Set beside a seven hour cheap rate window, that is roughly 126 miles recovered instead of 259, and the hours that spill past the window are bought at daytime costs.

Length turns on a flap in an unusual place. The bZ4X keeps its charging inlet on the front left wing, ahead of the front passenger door and on the kerb side of a 4.69 metre body, where most electric SUVs sit theirs behind the rear wheel. Pull forward into a space with the wallbox on that side and 5m is comfortable. Back the car in, or hang the unit on the wall opposite, and the run stretches around most of a mid-size SUV before it arrives at the socket, which is the job 10m does. The 32A cable also comes in 15m and 20m for a garage set apart from the house, a driveway two cars deep, or a charge point mounted well back from where the bZ4X stops. Pace out the route the lead will follow, around the bonnet and past the front wheel, before you choose.

Nothing in Toyota UK's bZ4X press pack lists a charging lead among the car's standard equipment, the launch offer covering a home charger and its installation instead, so a used bZ4X turns up with whatever the previous keeper happened to leave behind. Our Type 2 to 3-Pin Charging Cable, the one owners tend to call a granny charger, is worth having anyway: 2.3 kW out of an ordinary 13 amp socket, a Type B RCD inside the plug, a current setting that runs between 6 and 12 amps, IP67 sealing and about 11 miles of range an hour. Of the charging methods open to a bZ4X away from a wallbox it is the one that is always there, though against a battery this size it is a top up rather than a fill, near enough 77 miles over a long night and 31 hours 30 minutes from flat, which earns it a place as the lead that gets a bZ4X away from a cottage with no charge point. Feed it from a wall socket directly rather than an extension reel, and turn the current setting down where house wiring is old.

Both cables on this page come with a 2 year manufacturer's warranty. The Type 2 to Type 2 is built to IEC 62196-2, CE marked, rated IP55 for weather and grit, and rated to work from -30C to +50C. The Type 2 to 3-Pin holds CE marking, IP67 sealing and a -30C to +60C rating. Free next working day UK delivery applies to either one, and a 30 day free return sits behind the length you were not certain about. Toyota's other electrified models are set out on the Toyota C-HR charging cable page, and every lead we build for the brand is listed under Toyota EV charging cables.

Toyota bZ4X Charging Times by Build Date

bZ4X built before Q4 2022, 71.4 kWh, about 64 kWh usable, up to 317 miles WLTP

Maximum onboard AC charging speed: 6.6 kW, single phase only

bZ4X built from Q4 2022 to 2025, 71.4 kWh, about 64 kWh usable, up to 317 miles WLTP

Maximum onboard AC charging speed: 11 kW on three phase, 7.4 kW on a single phase supply

Updated bZ4X, 2026 on, 73.1 kWh, about 69 kWh usable, up to 352 miles WLTP

Maximum onboard AC charging speed: 22 kW three phase on Excel, 11 kW three phase on Design, 7.4 kW single phase

Toyota publishes 71.4 kWh and 73.1 kWh as total capacity without splitting off the usable figure, so the 64 kWh and 69 kWh used here come from independent measurement and every time is close rather than exact. Certified range varies depending on grade and drive, from 259 miles on an all wheel drive Vision to 317 miles on the front wheel drive car, and the first two tables take the higher number. The 57.7 kWh Icon added for 2026 holds about 54 kWh usable, is certified at 274.6 miles and fills in 8 hours 15 minutes on the 32A single phase cable. Winter temperatures and sustained motorway speed both pull the miles per hour column down.