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Subaru’s Next EV, Called the Trailseeker, Will Bow in New York This Week
Subaru’s EV fleet will grow by one later this week. The company announced plans to reveal its second all-electric SUV at the New York International Auto Show this coming weekend.
The EV, dubbed Trailseeker, is expected to be roughly the size of the Outback and contain two rows of seating, per Automotive News. The Outback itself has grown substantially in recent years, so if the sizing is similar, we’d expect a pretty hefty vehicle with pretty serious trunk space if it can indeed seat only five.
The Trailseeker will join the Solterra in Subaru’s fledgling electric lineup. The Solterra is an EV co-developed with Toyota; the latter sells this EV as the BZ4X. (The arrangement between automakers works similar to how the two partnered for the sports-car twins, the Subaru BRZ and the Toyota GR86; badges and tuning change, but most of the bones are all the same.)
Given the existing relationships and parallels between the two companies, we’re curious if the Trailseeker is also a co-developed affair with Toyota. Like Subaru, Toyota has just one full EV, as mentioned above. Might this mean that Toyota’s all-electric lineup will also grow soon? Time will tell.
The questions continue with one that’s pretty high on the list when discussing EVs: What’s the range? The Solterra is rated for an EPA-estimated 227 miles at best; that figure, while decent, is slowly slipping to the lower end of the range spectrum for new EVs. Comparable competitors, such as the Chevy Equinox EV, are rated for an EPA-estimated 319 miles of range at best. The new Trailseeker will need to step it up if Subaru wants to stay ahead of this ever-evolving segment.
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It’s hard to make many inferences from a single close-up exterior shot that Subaru provided (at the top of this story), but the Trailseeker looks relatively tame, styling-wise. We’re getting faint whiffs of the styling language used on the sixth-generation Forester, which bowed in two new flavors—an outdoor-oriented Wilderness trim and, finally, a hybrid version—at the Chicago Auto Show a few months ago. That said, if it’s another product co-developed with Toyota, it might hew more toward the Solterra, which is decidedly different from the rest of Subaru’s lineup.
The 2025 New York International Auto Show begins this Friday for the public, with industry days beginning this Wednesday, April 16. Expect the Trailseeker to bow in full mid-week.
