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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.
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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.
Best they can do is another compact SUV
Gimme an unsexy but oh-so-practical station wagon
Ah, so you want a full size SUV
SUVs are taller and get worse mileage while having less storage space… for people who like to imagine they’ll some day drive off-road.
Yeah but they’ve convinced everyone they need to go off road and don’t make station wagons anymore.
Not even Volvo.
Audi Avant. Only problem is $$$
No it’s to hide the 6” of batteries they stuff in the floor. They have the same interior space as the wagons did, but if they want a trunk they need to hide it all under the floor.
There are places where you need off-road capabilities lol. I remember one day I couldn't get up the driveway with my tiny vw cabrio. I just said fuck it and walked the rest of the way. Better yet, sliding down that said driveway almost into a ditch. Mud season sucks as well if you're not on pavement or a graded road.
still my favorite automotive form factor.
not the giant ones, though.. but those were awesome as a kid on family trips back when nobody gave a shit about seat belts and child safety. had the whole back to myself.
Stop asking for WRX hatchbacks you fools, the only thing they hear when you say that is "crossover" lol.
Give us a proper sedan or a proper outback hatchback, not some half assed in betweener that will look like another gr corolla.
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.
Being subaru, im surprised they dont have one motor for the left wheels and another for the right
I mean, you could probably get some performance handling by shifting power to the outside wheels in a corner. It's not entirely crazy.
But then you'd need two completely separate drive trains up the length of the chassis ... I guess that's not too far out of Subaru's norm.
Subaru would put an engine in the front and back, and then get the same effect by using some unholy double differential abomination.
If it did, it would shear off the lug studs even faster than they do now!
Infinite torque, baby!
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.....
Let's hope they don't put it in a stupid big SUV
Put it in stupid big SUV?! Nooooo problemo!
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