SUBARU Names New Its All-Electric SUV SOLTERRA

The first global electric vehicle for the brand aiming at coexistence with nature

SOLTERRA is Subaru’s all-new, allelectric C-segment-class SUV and it will be the first Subaru vehicle to be built on the battery electric vehicle (BEV) dedicated e-Subaru Global Platform. The e-Subaru Global platform, which has been jointly-developed by Subaru and Toyota, enables the roll-out of various types of EVs efficiently by combining multiple modules and components, such as the front, centre and rear of a vehicle. While the two companies have brought together their knowledge to create a completely new platform, Subaru has aimed to realise superior passive safety and vehicle stability, which Subaru has always been pursuing, also in this BEV dedicated platform. Not only the platform, the SUV SOLTERRA has also been jointlydeveloped by Subaru and Toyota, and wide range of collaboration includes and development, performance product the evaluation. planning, two companies In design this combine their respective strengths, such as Subaru’s long-accumulated all-wheel-drive technology and Toyota’s outstanding vehicle electrification technology, to create a new SUV with attributes that only an all- electric vehicle can offer. The name SOLTERRA was created by joining the word SOL and TERRA, the Latin words for the Sun and the Earth respectively. Subaru gave this name to the EV to appreciate mother nature and further advance the form of coexistence with it, together with our customers, and to represent its commitment to deliver traditional Subaru SUV’s go-anywhere capabilities in an all-electric vehicle. SOLTERRA will be joining the line of SUBARU SUVs, ASCENT, OUTBACK, FORESTER and SUBARU XV and go on sale by the middle of 2022 in markets including Japan, the United States, Canada, Europe and China.