TOKYO — Subaru will try a file run on the Nürburgring with a brand new 1,000-hp four-motor electrical race automobile that presages the all-wheel drive specialist’s dive into zero emissions.
The automaker unveiled the STI E-RA Idea on Friday on the Tokyo Auto Salon personalized automobile present. Subaru stated it developed the STI E-RA “with the intention of gathering expertise with new applied sciences on this planet of motorsports for the carbon-neutral period.”
Subaru Tecnica Worldwide, the corporate’s motorsports division, will take a look at the automobile at circuits in Japan this 12 months and attempt to set a brand new lap file on Germany’s famed Nürburging from 2023.
In Subaru’s sights is a successful time beneath 6 minutes 40 seconds.
The designation E-RA is brief for “electrical file try.”
Subaru’s new concentrate on a battery-powered efficiency comes as the corporate readies the midyear launch of its first mass-market electrical car, the Solterra crossover.
The STI E-RA will pack most output of 800 kilowatts, or round 1,073 hp, and sport a proprietary four-motor, four-wheel torque vectoring system. The high-torque, high-revolution motor, built-in with an inverter and equipment, was developed and equipped by Yamaha Motor Co.