Toyota and Subaru appear to be well on the way to becoming a PB & J-like cliched combination, after a multi-generational collaboration on. In a recent presentation discussing the company’s performance over the last fiscal year, the company revealed that it’s decided who it will build its next three electric vehicles with: Toyota. Of course. The real surprise would have been if Subaru announced its team up with any other automaker, or try to go it alone.
Joint development and production makes a lot of sense for Subaru, in terms of minimizing investment in less-profitable and apparently risky business of building and selling EVs. The company was able to—it said it wouldn’t have even tried to do so without a partner—and the BRZ/86 experiment was successful enough to spawn a second generation of affordable sports coupes. Toyota has U.S. factory capacity, as well, while Subaru is perennially production-constrained at its U.S. factory in Indiana.