Subaru's New Hybrid! Savior Of Internal Combustion For Years To Come?! Subaru Mazda & Toyota Convene

Little correction to the video. The new system is series parallel, like the E-Boxer. Not a series system. The system is just compacted to fit in the engine bay. The news articles I read on the matter weren’t super clear. A viewer has shared this video with me on the Subaru presentation - https://youtu.be/dT9vHtgEHWA?si=DFLisTmc1BAcDKzl Full presentation - https://youtu.be/baRkJxTTMng?si=GhwOYt70hiVec5lJ

If they can make it affordable to buy, dependable, cheap to maintain, good gas mileage, and plenty of power... I'm all for it.

No EV for me in the rust belt. We get cold winters. Lows going below zero at night happen every winter. I hope Subaru does not forget that some people who buy their cars expect them to last a long time. Small displacement turbocharged engines on average do not last as long as larger normally aspirated engines.

To state they should operate as a diesel is not wise. In the USA the government is stupid in how they demand diesels to run on DEF systems. Traditional diesels are amazing and run the many miles.

very interesting Mr. Subaru, looking forward to hearing more about it 👍

Watching your channel helped me to overcome the anxiety of purchasing a vehicle with a CVT. In the last 2 years I have been in accidents (no fault of mine) that totaled a 2004 Grand Marquis and a 2020 Ford Escape. Walked away with bruising. Safety was a primary concern for a small car purchase so Subaru came into focus, also did not want a tiny turbo engine. Now happy with a 2024 Forester Wilderness. The 1.5 minute warm up is a little annoying but if it will prolong the CVT life it’s a minor inconvenience.

Thanks Mr Subaru! I own a Subaru Crosstrek 2018 year model since march this year and have been following your channel since than. Its a mystery for me that Subaru USA doesnt provide you with a original car that you can review. You are the most viewed Subaru Channel on youtube as far as I know. Keep up the good work man! Greetings from Sweden!

I’m absolutely loving my 2020 Camry Hybrid. I’m averaging just over 53 mpg year round over 40k miles.

A piece of automotive history. A 1916 Owens Magnetic. A gasoline engine running a generator. Jay Leno’s Garage YouTube channel has a video of this car. History repeating itself.

The diesel driven genset with electric drive motors is what i have been saying was needed since the 90s.....

I’d buy a Subaru with a Toyota engine and transmission in a heartbeat.

This technology is dating back to the WW2 with the German U-boat design. They had a diesel motor driving a generator to charge the batteries that power the electric motor for the propellers. The technology is still adopted by some countries for their submarines today.

While I'm not against fully electric plug-in vehicles, the technology and infrastructure will need to be more fully developed. The comparison to the way railroad locomotives work may not be familiar to many people and the whole concept of changing tech reminds me of my late dad on this fathers day. He was born in September 1908, the same month the model T Ford began production and while horses were still the most common means of individual transportation. He drove wagons pulled by horses as a boy and at the age of 12 went to work delivering milk from a Model T truck. The infrastructure for autos was dismal but rapidly improving as was the auto tech itself. Fast forward some years and he became a boilermaker on the B&O railroad, apprenticed to his father. They kept the trains rolling during WWII, the best means for moving men and material across the nation. After the war, however, the diesel electric locomotives replaced the steam locos and in 1956 at nearly 48 years old his profession was gone so he went to work in an industry that was by then beginning to rival the railroads, the trucking industry. He went to work for International Harvester building trucks until his retirement in 1970. There's a lesson there for all the folks today wailing and whining about changing transportation technologies. The tech is evolving, and we have to evolve with it; it's been done before and will be done again after we're gone.

Subarus big markets are Canada, Alaska, and the northern states (the good ones). They do not want hybrids or all electrics. Subaru is late to this clean city car party and many other companies are doing it better. This AWD system still works at its best with a standard gas or diesel power plant. We are still many years away from that changing. If you want a hybrid or all electric be prepared to lose the AWD.....and at that rate you shouldn't be looking at Subaru.

The boxer and symmetric drive is not negotiable. Without both of these there is no point of Subaru and they might as well finish up and go 100% Toyota owned. Diesel would be good fuel wise but soot emissions are difficult and you end up with unreliable DPFs and Adblue. Meanwhile I’ll keep my EJ257 in my socially unacceptable STi.

Great video. I shared it on my Facebook too. Best of luck with your channel.

I really like the way you explain things. I can’t wait for my Subaru Sambar to arrive from Japan in August.

Love the idea of a diesel electric! But with plug in option as well to use solar charging at home…

The Subaru diesels were basically a great idea. However, they had MASSIVE problems in Europe with cranks having alignment issues and engines being scrap after 120-180k miles. Also considering the DPF and EGR issues that diesels are having, I would definitely lean towards the gas engines.

Automakers really tried diesel passenger cars here in the US back in the 80s. It wasn’t super popular mostly for reliability and drivability issues;however, modern diesel has largely worked that out. My problem with diesel in passenger cars is cost. Anything diesel related is big 💰. From initial purchase to repairs. Gas is less efficient, but far more economical