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Playing on the European market is not easy for carmakers. The continent has some of the strictest emissions regulations in the world - and they tend to get ever stricter - so everyone is racing to find ways of bringing those fleet emissions down. The best solution? Electric cars.
Subaru is one of the few carmakers that, at least for the moment, lacks a fully electrified solution in Europe. The Japanese company introduced the XV e-BOXER and Forester e-BOXER, which presently account for 60 percent of all its sales, but by the middle of the decade, we should get a fully-electric SUV as well.
Rumors about this have been around for a while. About two years ago, we got wind of something called Evoltis being in the works, with help from Toyota, but the stories were a bit confusing back then, with some claiming it will be an EV and others going for a PHEV. The carmaker itself made the waters surrounding the moniker even murkier this summer when it announced the Ascent would be arriving in the Philippines under the name… Evoltis.
The rumors were cleared a bit today, when the Japanese confirmed pretty much everything, save for the name.
In short, Europe will be getting “in the first half of 2020’s” a mid-size electric SUV, not unlike the current Forester in terms of dimensions. The EV will indeed be developed together with Toyota, and built on a common platform.
Subaru did not give any additional details but promised it would do so over the course of next year. If our lives get back to normal, we’ll probably see this new SUV show up at one of next fall’s auto shows, only to move into production and on the roads not long after that.
Subaru made no mention of this new car reaching American soil.
Rumors about this have been around for a while. About two years ago, we got wind of something called Evoltis being in the works, with help from Toyota, but the stories were a bit confusing back then, with some claiming it will be an EV and others going for a PHEV. The carmaker itself made the waters surrounding the moniker even murkier this summer when it announced the Ascent would be arriving in the Philippines under the name… Evoltis.
The rumors were cleared a bit today, when the Japanese confirmed pretty much everything, save for the name.
In short, Europe will be getting “in the first half of 2020’s” a mid-size electric SUV, not unlike the current Forester in terms of dimensions. The EV will indeed be developed together with Toyota, and built on a common platform.
Subaru did not give any additional details but promised it would do so over the course of next year. If our lives get back to normal, we’ll probably see this new SUV show up at one of next fall’s auto shows, only to move into production and on the roads not long after that.
Subaru made no mention of this new car reaching American soil.
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