Japanese carmaker Subaru, which currently makes just one battery electric vehicle , the Solterra, will adopt Tesla’s North American Charging Standard connector from 2025, the company said in a statement today. Cars that came from the factory with the CCS inlet – that’s the Solterra – will get access to the 15,000+ Tesla Superchargers in North America by way of an adapter, while “certain” Subaru BEVs that will be launched here in 2025 will be fitted from the get-go with the NACS connector.
Regarding the 2025 target for putting the plug on new EVs straight from the factory, Subaru wants to launch eight new battery-powered cars by 2026, with the first new electric vehicle planned to be a three-row SUV made in collaboration with Toyota, which will build both cars at its Kentucky plant starting in … you guessed it, 2025. That’s the same year when in-house production in Japan is slated to begin.