TOKYO – Electric-vehicle latecomer Subaru is dramatically stepping up the pace in the global electrification race, planning now to build EVs in the U.S. from around 2027 and sell some 400,000 battery-powered cars in the U.S. by 2028 – a volume amounting to nearly half its current U.S. sales.
New CEO Atsushi Osaki, in announcing the plan Aug. 2 with quarterly financial results, said the Japanese automaker also wants to get half its global volume – an estimated 600,000 units