As a long-time Subie, I’m thrilled by this news. Excerpted from AutoBlogGreen:
Subaru will license and adapt Toyota’s Hybrid Synergy Drive system to its current drivetrains, which has proved difficult and, apparently, time consuming (Autoblog first reported on Subaru’s hybrid plans back in 2005).
However, with this week’s new CAFE announcement that requires automakers’ products to average 35.5 mpg by 2016 – with Japan and Europe likely to follow suit – Subaru seems to finally be ready to make good on its promise – seven years later.
Subaru has won recognition and praise for recycling almost all of the waste generated at its Lafayette, Indiana final-assembly plant, a facility built alongside a thriving wildlife refuge. The company already sells Partial-Zero Emissions (PZEV) versions of its Outback and Forester models.
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