Participating Subaru Dealerships [
dealership locator] have
2023 Subaru Solterra Electric Compact SUV (Premium Trim, code PED-11) available to
Lease at
$241/month for
36 months (total $8,676) plus tax and license fee from participating dealerships w/ zero down for qualified buyers. Contact your local dealership(s) to verify if this offer is available in your area.
Thanks to community member
KhalidS8701 for finding this deal.
- Note: Offer and inventory availability may vary by location.
Features:
- All-wheel-drive electric crossover
- Seats five and carries 23.8 cubic feet of cargo behind its rear seats.
- Range: 228 miles
- 0-60mph in 6.5 seconds
- 8.3" of ground clearance
- Built on Toyota's e-TGNA global battery-electric vehicle platform
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For lane center it is pretty good and I tested this in Oregon curvy roads as well, works very well but Hyundai lane center is still much better than this one.
why does an EV become a sudden issue?
did you bash the Mach e for being called a mustang?
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For me, electricity is 0.25$/kwh and gas is ~3$
His mileage/example, with 65 miles 16 days per month (1040 miles), for both:
Electric, Solterra gets 3.23mikes/kwh according to Google
1040 / 3.23 -> 322 * 0.25 -> 80.5$/mo
Gas, Mazda CX-5 gets 29mpg combined according to Google
1040 / 29 -> 36 * 3 -> 107.6$/mo
Everybody exaggerates everything on interwebs forums… take it all with a handful of salt 😉
EVs are great for commuting and if you can effectively charge at home overnight (ie, not using a 120v15a outlet… in most cases, unless you can bike to work, you'll end up needing to stop at a charging station now and then because it'll be a sum negative)
- have a charger in garage
- commute to work
Many people are missing by the term "fast charging". There's isn't such thing. There's is slow charging and VERY slow charging. As such, if you can't charge overnight in your own garage, it's not gonna be fun. If you wanna charge it on long trips, it will not be fun. Use it for daily commute, and that's it
Great price point... for the local tool-around auto only. And not a primary. Suburban second car.
BTW- like the sheep you are, you do not seem to have travelled a lot. Check the price of petrol and diesel (you call it gas) across the world and compare it against US prices per gallon and you would know how much subsidy you are receiving for "gas".
For people not happy about EV's in general let me start off by saying that I saved $3500 last year by driving a small EV with a 150 mile range (gives me about 175 with my driving style), PV solar rooftop system and city driving in my EV. For my long distance vacations, I have a nice 7-seater SUV. For 1+ car families living in suburban setting and having multiple chores through the day, an EV is a no-brainer. On a mileage equivalent basis - if the gas cost were $4 per gallon, I get an equivalent of 150 miles per gallon from my EV. Last year I drive over 18k miles- Over 90% of that was in my EV because 90% of my driving is within my city with about 400 miles per week average. Having an EV saved me a bunch on my gas that I would have otherwise used to do the same commute and chores and drop-off,pickups of kids, etc.
The reason I bought an EV is find a better use of my excess electricity production from my PV system. I was putting it on the grid but our utility does not pay for any additional generation- its a use it or lose it policy for electricity generated by my system. EV was the best use I found for this and I ended up saving money for the driving around town that I would have to in an ICE anyways. Driving an EV is awesome fun especially in town where one has to stop/slow down quite often. The Regen braking/One pedal driving/overnight charging at home/lack of maintenance, etc are all cherries on top. I have had days of driving where I never used the brake even once- anyways that is besides the point.
My PV system covers 100% of my bills in 9 months of the year- It covers only 50% for the 3 months of summer. I overproduce during those 9 months to an extent that I can drive for 15k + miles. My ROI or breakeven period for just my PV would have been about 7-8 years without the utility increasing the per kwh cost. An year or 2 less if they increased their cost it by 20% over the course of those 7-8 years.
Now the interesting part - with 15k of driving on my PV system "extra" electricity, I saved $2250 in direct gas costs. For the other 3k miles it is about $400, because I had to pay the utility company for the electricity for those 3k miles. Overall, I saved $2500 conservatively just by driving an EV. Add to that my home electricity savings due to the PV. This is the math for $3500 per year of saving money using PV system with EV.
YMMV - as it will depend on the cost of electricity in your area, the number of miles you drive the EV, the range of the EV that you buy (Lower range is excellent because it has a smaller battery; Battery weight is very high so a bigger battery EV with extra range you buy is additional weight you carry around for the local commute), your ability to negotiate a great rate for the PV system and any rebates your state will give for EV and/or PV systems. My state or utility does Not have any rebate for EV or PV and even then my break-even point is at 3.5 years. Note- there is a federal rebate on PV of 30% of the installation cost.
Long post and its a real world actual and factual data. Hope it helps someone who truly interested in saving money and going beyond the politics of this.
Make sure you take into account dealer add-ons and any fees they like to tack on. you kind of have to explain the promotion to them like 4-5 times tell they bring the finance manager and he can make sense of it.
Overall: 365/M with 5.5K down (3K Dealer Fee, Tags, Doc, Add-ons, etc + 2500 Tax Credit) & they paid my first month.
Finer details:
Subarus Promotion 330/M (10K w/ 46.3K MSRP)
1.5K Higher MSRP ($42/m)
12K Miles ($10/month)
=382/M (calculated) - 365/m (Actual) = 17/M or $612 Discount (From Dealer) + 365 for paying one of my payments
So overall true cost of Car:
=$13,140 (365*36)+$3000(Down)-$365(1st payment paid by Subaru)= $15,775 (total cost of Lease)/36month
$15,775 (total cost of Lease) / 36month=$438.19/month (True Payment per month)
$438.19/47500 (MSRP) =.9225% Monthly payment of MSRP.
Not really a unicorn deal, but solid none the less.
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