Subaru Confirms All-Electric Forester-size Model for Europe

Subaru Europe has confirmed the company is preparing for the launch of a full electric vehicle. Scheduled for introduction in the first half of the 2020s, Subaru’s all-electric vehicle will be a mid-size SUV, similar in size to the Subaru Forester model. It will be built on a platform shared with Toyota. However, the Japanese manufacturer will only share the information sometime next year.The all-new electric SUV from SUB will also signal the brand’s second electrification step in Europe after it recently launched mild-hybrid variants of three core models in the region, where the Impreza e-BOXER, Subaru XV e-BOXER, and Forester e-BOXER models represent 60% of Subaru Europe's sales volume.Back in 2019, Toyota and Subaru agreed to jointly develop a platform dedicated to battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and to jointly develop a BEV model, both of which will employ Subaru's AWD technologies and Toyota's vehicle electrification technologies.