I am really sad to see the…
I am really sad to see the Crosstrek PHEV go this year. I searched so hard to get one from 2019 up until September 2022, when I finally was able to get my 2023 PHEV. I got super lucky.
I have been driving my Trek a lot both in city and on long highway drives (700+km) each week. Honestly, I can drive around the city using electric only in between my long trips and easily rack up over 200 km of EV-only driving in a week by charging each night.
This vehicle is fantastic in the crazy hard weather conditions, off-road and on the bad roads that we have up here in Québec. Our charging infrastructure is really well planned out in this Province, so I never have trouble gettting a charge point at any hour. I also never have trouble carrying my camera gear tools, luggage, kayaks, bikes and snowboards. It is true that I have a little less cargo space than my previous Crosstrek Outdoor, but I do not really notice the difference.
I would absolutely love to see a version of the Trek PHEV with 35-50 miles of range in the future, but the current Subaru plan seems to be trending away from complex powertrains leveraging petrol / electric and Plug in capacity. I am, however, interested to see if the eBoxer version of the 2024 Trek will ever make it to this continent.
Thanks for listening and I can personally attest to the Crosstrek PHEV being a fantastic vehicle even though social media loves to come down hard on it.