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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taxes, registation, plates, delivery etc INCluded
I have gas cars as well as electric. If I want to go on a long road trip, I would rent a car to avoid depreciation/wear of my gas car and put the thousands of miles on it.
Why would I drive my wife's X5M on a road trip when I can rent a Sienna for 50 bucks a day and put the 2k miles on it. Same situation as my Tesla, I've driven from Missouri to Chicago, took one stop each way for about 45 mins. My hotel in Chicago had a charger and I left with a full battery.
I'm not criticising, but just presenting that info. Getting electric car means, you will have to plan bit more carefully when going to for a long trip.
I'm not criticising, but just presenting that info. Getting electric car means, you will have to plan bit more carefully when going to for a long trip.
I don't think a Subaru is in my future. It's misleading. At least with Tesla the payment is exactly the same except the tax/registration part.
Curious about the Nissan Leaf I read in this thread though.
With EVs, the battery is the weak point of the purchase. It goes down to almost zero value at some point. I have 1998 Z3 and a 2002 Civic, both drive great. But an EV at that age may not do well, not matter the milage.
That at my two friends with Teslas have had the suspension mostly changed out after 40k miles. Luckily under warranty, but I warned them to maybe sell now or risk it happening again.
Civic suspension never changed a thing.
Z3 though did get new shocks and struts at 30k miles but that was because I wanted a smoother ride. lifetime warranty on them.
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Two years ago it was 37.37¢/kWh & 39.01¢/kWh respectively.
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99% of the continental US population lives within 50-100 miles of a Tesla supercharger...and the lowest range of any car they sell is 260 miles.... barring some really edge cases like the hinterlands of Montana is pretty hard to find any route you can't easily find chargers along the way for any given road trip. I agree the Subaru in question is primarily an around town car- not so EVs in general though.
EV drivers plan their trips based on superchargers.
Congrats on reaching exactly the opposite conclusion the facts proved!
99% of the time you're NOT on a road trip.
Which means you have to waste 5-10 minutes a week (or 10-20 if you drive a lot- or more if you fuel at costco
While an EV owner wastes 0 time detouring anywhere, they're charging while they sleep at home (and for a much lower cost too) always waking up to a fueled vehicle with plenty of range for all their local driving.
The couple times a year a longer trip happens, they're still typically not doing more than 500 miles in a single day. Which a longer range EV can do with ONE stop of 15-20 minutes--- about the same as you'd make in a gas car to not just fuel, but get drinks, use the restroom, etc.
Even if you're a marathoner who wants to do 700 miles in a day a second 15-20 min stop gets you there (or a single longer stop when having a sit-down meal, as most folks travelling 10+ hours would do anyway)
And either way thanks to the local time savings, over the course of a whole year you waste far less time "fueling" an EV than you ever will keeping a gas car fueled all year.
Again the road trip stuff applies to most EVs sold these days- which have 250-350 miles of range out of the gate, and support real, fairly ubiquitous, fast charging.... the Subaru in this deal is not that and really is a throwback good-for-local-drives car because Toyota tech is so out of date... but applying that outlier to EVs in general is to simply ignore the reality of modern EVs (of which this isn't really one)
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Or actually I could have said that I meant to say Ford F-150 Lightnings, for which $120K new MSRP Lightnings with 500 miles on the odometer as shown by a recent popular youtuber the best dealer offer cash purchase was for half of that, making it one of the highest depreciating EVs available.
2022 Tesla Model 3s have massively dropped in value as well, leaving people on the forums fuming about how they are upside down.
Point is, EVs have horrific resale value right now, so while a lease is also fine, check the used market as it is insane how much they depreciate.
its not that there is zero EV demand, EV sales are actually increasing, its that every manufacturer HUGELY overestimated EV popularity. Mercedes has EVs with 380 days of inventory available, that's pretty crazy. Meanwhile, try to find a Ford Maverick Hybrid or Rav4 Hybrid or Prius Hybrid and you'll pay over MSRP if you can find one. They underestimated hybrid demand and overestimated EV demand, its that simple. Ford CEO just admitted as much two weeks ago.
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