Yet another Hacker News

Subaru is killing off gas cars and will only sell EVs in Europe

38 points toomuchtodo 1 hour ago 10 comments

toomuchtodo 1 hour ago | parent

German source: https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/verkehr/keine-verbrenner...

(Subaru marketshare is already fairly small in Europe, but an interesting data point imho as global electrification continues)

Europe EV sales rose 70.3% in September, 32.6% of market share - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50155291 - October 2026 (167 comments, as of this comment)

EV Sales Are Booming in Europe with Gasoline at $10 a Gallon - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870928 - September 2026 (150 comments)

Europe EV Sales BEVs Jump 50% & Reach 26% Market Share - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49147450 - August 2026 (188 comments)

Tracking:

https://ember-energy.org/data/ev-sales-tracker/

https://robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/?lang=en&freq=monthl...

https://ourworldindata.org/electric-car-sales

nothercastle 1 hour ago | parent

Subaru the brand with the worst infotainment in the market is going all electric. That’s going to go well

gamegod 55 minutes ago | parent

If you're buying a Subaru, you're buying it because you value safety and reliability of the car, because your life/livelihood depend on it. You're not concerned about the infotainment system.

Kirby64 52 minutes ago | parent

> If you're buying a Subaru, you're buying it because you value safety and reliability of the car

If I want that, why wouldn’t I buy Toyota/Honda?

kikkia 43 minutes ago | parent

That's part, I think not to dissimilar from a jeep, people buy them for the "lifestyle". Plenty of people take them off road, but plenty also like the idea that they could go off road.

nothercastle 22 minutes ago | parent

You are buying it for the gas powered awd system. Which is like the only thing they did well. They have zero advantage or brand value in the EV realm

solyin 6 minutes ago | parent

No you're not. You're buying a Subaru because how awesome was the WRX STi and how they did in WRC! Naturally I speak for the motivations of all Subaru buyers and you don't. We can't know what reasons people do buy a Subaru, but people buying them because of awesome things professional race car drivers do in modified versions of their car has got to be non-zero.

onlypassingthru 5 minutes ago | parent

"Subaru is killing off gas cars and will only sell rebadged Toyota EVs in Europe."

Subaru was talking about an electric model over 20 years ago! I saw the concept drawings. Whoever has run Subaru for the last 20 years needs to be given a watch and thanked for their service on their way out the door.