This wouldn’t be the first time Toyota and Subaru paired up to make a new vehicle, with such examples as the GR86 and the BRZ being one. In greater relevance to electric vehicles, Toyota and Subaru also teamed up to cooperatively develop and produce the Toyota bZ4X and Subaru Solterra EV crossovers, both of which launched in May 2022.
Nikkei Asia did learn that production for the new model will commence primarily at Subaru’s Yajima plant, upping the facilities overall output to around 15,000 to 20,000 vehicles per month.
the Yajima plant is responsible for the production of nearly Subaru’s entire gas-powered lineup such as the Impreza, the Legacy, and the Forester and Outback crossover SUVs. It would be the first EV to be made at the Yajima plant as the Solterra and the bZ4X are both manufactured at Toyota’s main production Motomachi facility in Aichi, and Toyota’s new Chinese plant in Guangzhou. The latter supports the Chinese-market models.
This new EV SUV in the works is expected to be based off the same platform underpinning the bZ4X and Solterra, which is Toyota’s e-TNGA modular platform, or Toyota’s Next Generation Architecture, specifically meant for its lineup of electric vehicles. For Subaru, the platform was licensed and renamed to e-SGP or “e-Subaru Global Platform.” For Subaru spefically, the new SUV is a part of Subaru’s revised electric vehicle strategy, which hopes to sell up to 600,000 EVs annually by 2030. That amount will make up about half of Subaru’s global sales by then.
both the Toyota bZ4X and Subaru Solterra have both suffered from slow sales, with only 1,220 bZ4X’s sold in the US in 2022, while Subaru moved only 919 Solterras that same year. Sales increased dramatically the following year, according to public sales reports, with Toyota selling around 9,329 bZ4X’s and Subaru moving around 8,872 Solterras.
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