It doesn't feel very agricultural: The 2026 Subaru Solterra review

Key points

• After a slow start, Subaru’s electrification journey picked up a bit this year with the debut of a pair of new electric vehicles, the Uncharted and the Trailseeker.
• Neither is truly an in-house Subaru—like the Solterra EV before them, they use Toyota’s e-TNGA platform.
• The Solterra remains on sale alongside the two new EVs—it’s bigger than the Uncharted and less off-roady than the Trailseeker—and like the closely related Toyota bZ, the Solterra recently got its midlife update.
• And since it had been a while since Ars had last driven a Solterra, we decided to spend a week with one.
• The original Solterra was a rather underwhelming effort.