A new electric vehicle platform that could underpin its next generation of battery-powered models, including high-performance vehicles capable of accelerating from 0-100km/h in under four seconds.
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The Japanese manufacturer has unveiled an experimental electric vehicle featuring a dual-motor all-wheel-drive system producing more than 380kW of power, which is significantly more than any of its current electric models.
The prototype in question features a 150kW electric motor at the front and a more powerful 230kW unit at the rear, giving it a rear-biased all-wheel-drive system. The electric motors themselves are have been developed with Aisin, and are claimed to deliver efficiency improvements of around 30 per cent. The platform itself weighs around 100kg less than the current Subaru EVs and a newly-developed battery pack could bring further weight savings.
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We don’t yet know the size of the battery, but it’s been developed in partnership with Panasonic Energy and it uses approximately 4000 cylindrical cells. The battery is claimed to be 25 per cent lighter than the current Subaru EV batteries, with energy density around 20 per cent higher than the industry average.
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The Japanese manufacturers fucked up big time sleeping on EVs.
Subaru, don’t fuck this up: give us a hot little EV WRX hatch.
Toyota didn’t. I’ll admit that they’ve been too cautious on adoption of Li-ion batteries and EVs, but they remain the leader in hybrid tech.
Hell, the current hybrids are almost EVs in spirit with the 20-30 mile all-electric range of the first leg. That might as well be 80% of your driving, even more if you live in a city with a large amount of car chargers at your destinations.
Let’s hope they don’t put it in a stupid big SUV
Put it in stupid big SUV?! Nooooo problemo!
It is relatively easy to make a quick EV, but making a good one from the efficiency, charging, cost, and utility perspective is difficult. So their focus on power output has me concerned about the other aspects lacking…
Wasn’t there already an SUV EV that was poorly received? Solterra?
That was a rebranded Toyota bz-whatever. This would be the first designed and produced inhouse
