2023 Subaru Solterra Official Thread

I'm agreeing with John on this, about the same amount of time in Upstate NY where we have frequent lake effect snows. While I've noticed a range drop in my PP during winter, that's an older battery chemistry and design. I've always admired Toyota's improvements and conservative estimates over the years and if they say this battery will have improved cold weather performance, I wouldn't bet against them.

 

For me ~220 miles EV range of Solterra is likely to be fine even in winter for 95% of my use cases. In fact, there is not a single non-Tesla BEV out there that has a long enough EV range for me to drive for a long trip further than 250miles anyway. And even with the long-range M3 with ~350 miles of EV range is more likely to get stuck in the snow than Solterra equipped with AWD and 8.3 inches of ground clearance.

The problem is the price. No matter how I compare it, it will be a downgrade from our current PP and Pathfinder put together. Yet, it cost more than both of them combined. I was really hoping the Toyota and Subaru would come up with truly affordable BEV for the masses.

 

So I downloaded the specs for the Subaru Solterra from the InsideEVs site and someone needs to double check their math:

https://cdn.motor1.com/pdf-files/2023-subaru-solterra-us-specs-pdf.pdf

It looks like Motor1 tried to make it look official but there are some questionable errors:

Lithium-ion: 96 cells, 72.8 kWh Rated
voltage: 355.2v
Rated capacity: 201 Ah
Battery cooling system

In order to get to 72.8 kWh you need 205 Ah. The 201 Ah calculates correctly for the 71.4 kWh battery.

Also this thing seems to support a 32A L2 charger:

Type 1 (SAE J1772) combination connector system (CCS) Charge port on left fender

Approximate charge times: L2 240V@32a: 9 hours
DC fast charging: 80 percent charge in about 56 minutes
L1 240v @ 8a approximate charge time: 35 hours
L1 120v @ 12a approximate charge time: 50 hours
L1 120v @ 8a approximate charge time: 77 hours


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