Subaru Corp. began taking orders for the new Trailseeker electric vehicle (EV) on April 9, the first time the automaker has produced an electric vehicle at its own factory.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Trailseeker, jointly developed with Toyota Motor Corp., is the company\u2019s second mass-produced EV for the global market. Its first EV was built by Toyota.<\/p>\n
The Trailseeker is priced from 5.39 million yen ($33,840) to 6.38 million yen, including tax.<\/p>\n
Following a revision to the government\u2019s eco-car subsidy program on April 1, the Trailseeker is eligible for a 1.29-million-yen rebate, bringing the buyer\u2019s actual cost down to a starting price of 4.1 million yen.<\/p>\n
The vehicle has a maximum range of 734 kilometers on a single charge. It also features a battery-warming function that enables a rapid charge from 10 to 80 percent in about 28 minutes, even during cold winters when charging efficiency can drop.<\/p>\n
Positioned as a \u201cwagon-style sport utility vehicle (SUV),\u201d the Trailseeker is engineered for confident handling on rough and slippery surfaces, including snowy roads.<\/p>\n
Boasting 633 liters of cargo capacity\u2014one of the largest among Subaru models\u2014the space can hold four golf bags.<\/p>\n
The production line at the company\u2019s Gunma Yajima Plant in Ota, Gunma Prefecture, has been refurbished to enable mixed production of EVs alongside gasoline and hybrid vehicles (HVs).<\/p>\n
The plant will also handle production of Toyota\u2019s bZ4X Touring EV, which utilizes the same platform as the Trailseeker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Subaru Corp. began taking orders for the new Trailseeker electric vehicle (EV) on April 9, the first time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[26785,138,1759,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-375247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-asahi-shimbun","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-japan","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}