Toyota bZ Time Attack Concept is Pikes Peak-ready with 400+bhp and AWD

Toyota has taken the 2025 SEMA Show by surprise after unveiling its all-electric Toyota bZ Time Attack Concept race car with over 400bhp, big aero, and all-wheel drive.

Designed for time-attack and hillclimb events such as Pikes Peak, this performance-focused bZ is based on the 2026 all-wheel drive bZ. In stock form, this US-spec SUV delivers 343bhp and a 0-60mph time of just 4.9 seconds.

Thanks to bespoke ECU calibration, the Toyota bZ Time Attack Concept produced 405bhp, and the chassis supports the extra power with TEIN coilovers and springs.

The brakes have been seriously uprated with an Alcon system and Hawk pads lifted from the Toyota 86 Cup and Corolla TC race programme. Inside, the Toyota bZ Time Attack Concept comes with an FIA-spec roll cage, plus OMP racing seats and harnesses.

Riding on 19-inch wheels and sitting six inches lower than its road-going cousin, the bZ Time Attack Concept comes with a fully-integrated widebody aerodynamics package featuring a rear wing,  side skirts, a front splitter, plus a huge rear diffuser. The car’s wings were also 3D-printed to provide what Toyota calls “a hybridised approach to fabrication”.

Marty Schwerter, the project’s lead builder and director of operations at Toyota’s Motorsports Technical Centre, believes that that the bZ Time Attack Concept is proof that a dedicated all-electric platform can make for an exciting race car.

“It’s a chance to explore, learn, and create something that shows just how much potential exists within Toyota’s BEV platforms,” he said. “The goal wasn’t to simply create a showpiece—It was to see how far the new bZ platform could be pushed in a motorsport setting. The meant that we had to tackle the two biggest hurdles for any electric competition car: battery performance and aerodynamic integration.”

The Toyota bZ Time Attack Concept will be on display at the 2025 SEMA Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center in the Toyota booth from November 4-7.

The Japanese brand is not the only manufacturer to be experimenting with EVs in time-attack and hillclimb races. Since 2018, OEMs Ford and Volkswagen have been using – and winning with – all-electric race cars at Pikes Peak.

The now-defunct, ex-World Rallycross-winning CE Dealer Team is also rumoured to be eyeing a run up “America’s Mountain” as it seeks to showcase what can be done with an EV platform.