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Subaru crossover utility vehicle electric from 2021 Japanese report.
Subaru, at which motor authors often attach the adjective weird, was a quiet success in the U S market today provides almost half of its global sales.
The company's crossover utility vehicles handle more like cars than other manufacturers, and its sedans and hatchbacks are distinguished by all-wheel drive standard.
Yet it is just one-tenth the size of the giant GM, Toyota and Volkswagen, which means that compliance with regulations difficult to come will be a challenge only for the cost.
The company is one of the intermediate automakers to be submitted to the California zero emission vehicle requirements from the year 2018 model.
He plans to meet with launching a hybrid plug-in that has not yet revealed, but it is possible that will be sold only in states that have adopted emission regulations in California.
His only electrified vehicle is thus far the low volume Subaru Crosstrek hybrid, mild hybrid variant of its compact crossover popular sedan.
2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek hybrid - Quick Drive, in July 2014.
Now comes a report from Japan, however, Subaru will launch an electric crossover utility vehicle in 2021 that the company refused to confirm the report.
The vehicle was mentioned in an article published August 8 by the newspaper Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun of Japan, according to trade magazine of the automotive industry U News.
The all-electric crossover would be based on a future generation of compact crossover forest or Outback utility vehicle average company size, she suggested.
Both vehicles are then moved to the Subaru World flexible architecture unveiled earlier this year, which will underpin all future Subaru vehicles.
This chipset is designed to accommodate not only the company four dishes engines and all-wheel drive systems, as well as hybrids, plug-in hybrids and full electric vehicles.
The first vehicle to use the new architecture will be the Subaru Impreza 2017, unveiled earlier this year.
2017 Subaru Impreza 5-door 2016 New York Auto Show.
This model will go into production for the North American assembly plant Subaru Indiana later this year, joining the Outbacks and Legacies he built since 1989.
Supplies of the Impreza, and especially the most profitable Crosstrek on this basis, has been hampered by capacity in Japan; North American production is to solve this.
The Impreza 2017 followed a year later by the new Subaru Impreza 2018 Crosstrek basis, then a new forest crossover for the 2019 model.
Finally, 2020 will see new versions of the Legacy and Outback wagon sedan, completing the transition of the company for its products in North America to the new architecture.
It would coordinate well with the idea that this is the Forester or Outback serve as a basis for the all-electric SUV.
Dominick Infante Subaru arm of the U S declined to comment on the report.
An electric filter actually return to a Subaru vehicle, he abandoned there over six years, when it took Japan Stella EV electric minicar production.
The all-electric minicar three-door, available only in Japan, has not sold nearly as well as his contemporary five-door Mitsubishi i-MiEV.
With luck, maybe a crossover vehicle all-electric utility will be better among the Subaru often progressive, active sports and outdoorsy buyers.
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