Posted Sunday, September 4, 2022 at 9:07pm
Subaru will begin offering hybridized powertrains from corporate partner Toyota by mid-decade and will build battery-electric vehicles itself in a new factory in Japan in the later half of the decade. But it will rely on its current lineup of combustion-powered vehicles and one Toyota-built EV in the U.S. until then.
The launch of the 2023 Subaru Solterra electric compact crossover was put on ice this year by a stop-sale and recall issued by Toyota, which also impacted the Solterra’s sibling vehicle, the Toyota bZ4X. Subaru had plans to sell 6,000 Solterras in the U.S. in 2022, with capacity expected to increase in 2023. But the recall, involving wheels that could potentially detach, delayed Solterra deliveries for the time being and froze Subaru’s EV ambitions before they ever got a chance to get going.
