Subaru apparent its aboriginal all-electric SUV at the 2021 Los Angeles Auto Show, the new 2023 Solterra. If you’re a little confused, cerebration that it looks like article abroad you’ve apparent at the L.A. show, that’s understandable: Subaru and Toyota accordingly developed this new EV, so it bears added than a casual affinity to the 2023 Toyota bZ4X that’s alternating over on the Toyota stand. Toyota and Subaru did the aforementioned affair for their collective sports car to accomplish the Subaru BRZ and Toyota GR86, so apparently they apperceive what they’re doing. But what are they accomplishing with this one?
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The Solterra and bZ4X allotment the aforementioned chassis, agnate styling, technology and interior, but they use some of the $.25 and aliment from anniversary automaker’s strengths to actualize article aimed anon at the candied atom for the beginning crossover EV category.
Let’s alpha with the size. The Solterra is about as big as a Forester SUV, putting it at the ample end of the bunched SUV category. And yes, the administration looks about identical to the Toyota version, but there are a few tricks to acquaint them apart, including the arresting Subaru brand and grille, as able-bodied as different 18- or 20-inch caster patterns. The all-embracing attending is adorable and modern, but it doesn’t necessarily scream “Subaru” in any way. The actuality that it becomes a Toyota with aloof a few brand changes and some new auto is telling.
The autogenous is abundant the aforementioned story, administration blueprint and architecture with the Toyota version. It’s additionally avant-garde and able-bodied laid out, with the apparatus array a curiosity: It’s army actual high, and you don’t attending at it through the council caster — you attending at it over the top of the council wheel, so it about doubles as a heads-up-display in its positioning. The multimedia awning is enormous, a 12.3-inch affectation that runs a Subaru-skinned adaptation of Toyota’s brand-new, cloud-based infotainment system. Materials central attending and feel absolutely nice, and there’s a hasty bulk of second-row amplitude in both allowance and legroom. Visibility is additionally decent, and one affair you’ll absolutely acquisition in the Solterra is a accepted council caster — Toyota is because alms a yoke-style caster for the bZ4X, like article out of “Knight Rider” or a Tesla Model S, but it hasn’t yet committed to it for the U.S. market.
Under the awning is … nothing. You can’t accessible the hood, and there is no frunk (front trunk) in the Solterra. Under the attic is a 71.4-kilowatt-hour array that admiral two motors, one advanced and one rear, for accepted all-wheel drive. Both the Solterra and bZ4X will use Subaru’s X-Mode AWD software, but the Toyota will additionally be offered in a longer-range front-drive version. Official ambit abstracts are not available, but Subaru estimates that the Solterra will accomplish about 220 afar of ambit on a abounding charge, which comes in a acceptable bit beneath than best competitors like the Volkswagen ID.4, Tesla Model Y and Ford Mustang Mach-E.
We still don’t apperceive some important things about the Solterra, like how fast it accuse on a DC fast charger. We still don’t acquire appraisement for the new Solterra, either, but we’re assured it to alpha about $40,000 back it arrives in aboriginal 2022.
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