Posted Saturday, March 7, 2026 at 9:29pm
It’s beginning to look more and more like Subaru is trying to put a turbine engine in a car. CarBuzz has just discovered a new patent from the company for a way to control a turbine engine and power system in a vehicle, and this isn’t an accident or a one-off. It’s the second time that we’ve found a turbine patent from the Japanese automaker.
We first found a turbine patent from Subaru last September. The patent looked at using a turbine engine, what most of us would call a jet engine, as the engine in an extended range EV. Turbines are terrible in normal automotive applications, as Chrysler learned in the 1960s. But in steady-state generator-spinning use they could be more efficient.
