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(Pocket-lint) - After months of teasing, Subaru has fixed its archetypal bully look astatine the 2023 Subaru Solterra. It's the Japanese automaker’s first electrical vehicle.
Set to merchandise successful the US, Canada, and Europe adjacent year, the Solterra SUV volition beryllium powered by an electrical conveyance level that Subaru co-built with Toyota.
It'll beryllium disposable successful some front-wheel and all-wheel-drive models. You tin take either a 150kW (201 horsepower) AC synchronous centrifugal driving the beforehand wheels oregon a brace of 80kW (107 horsepower) motors - 1 for each axle - for a full output of 160kW (214 horsepower). Both variants battalion a 71.4kWh artillery that is expected to proviso astir 329 miles (530 kilometers) of range. The all-wheel-drive mentation volition propulsion 286 miles (460 kilometers) of range.
But those estimations are each based connected the WLTC modular successful Japan, truthful the EPA standing successful the US whitethorn beryllium less.
Other notable features see enactment for DC fast-charging up to 150kW, Suburau’s X-Mode AWD power strategy that "enhances the consciousness of information connected unsmooth roads", arsenic good arsenic a caller Grip Control relation that "enables the conveyance to tally astatine a changeless velocity portion stabilizing the conveyance adjacent connected unsmooth roads".
All electric, ever capable. Plan your escapade successful the all-new 2023 Subaru Solterra EV SUV. Coming 11/17, 10:45 AM PT, astatine the @LAAutoShow. Sign up to ticker the unrecorded watercourse here: https://t.co/vTShoP73bR pic.twitter.com/CP4u6fqn5B
— Subaru (@subaru_usa) November 9, 2021Subaru hasn’t announced the Solterra’s starting price. It is expected to uncover much and amusement disconnected the conveyance astatine the LA Auto Show connected 17 November 2021.
Writing by Maggie Tillman. Originally published connected 11 November 2021.
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