Subaru XV

It's now clear that every automaker, no matter how large or small, will have to develop and sell battery-electric vehicles by 2020 to 2025. Companies like GM and Volkswagen, which each make 10 million cars a year, can afford the breathtaking costs of developing expertise and engineering cars with entirely different powertrains. For smaller companies, it's tougher. DON'T MISS: All-electric Subaru crossover coming in 2021: Japanese report (Aug 2016) Now Subaru is moving toward its first plug-in vehicles, with a plug-in hybrid planned for 2019 and a battery-electric model after that. In an...