A recent application for a trademark suggests Subaru may be bringing its top sport sedan back with an electrified successor.

As CarBuzz reported,Subaru filed an application with Germany’s Patent and Trademark Office for the name « STe » on March 13. That model, presumably, would become Subaru’s badging on top-level performance variants of its electrified car, replacing the original « Subaru Tecnica International » motorsports branding with something more fitting of cars with electric assistance. Whether the badge is meant for hybrids or fully electric cars is not yet clear.

Subaru makes both, but neither its all-electric Solterra nor its hybridized Crosstrek have any performance aspirations to speak of. The now-standalone WRX is the brand’s only current performance car in North America, so the badge would make the most sense on either a hybridized performance WRX variant to replace the original STI or a fully electric car, possibly even a standalone electric performance car to launch the STe brand going forward.

Subaru told Road & Track last year that the current generation of WRX would not get a performance variant in part because changing regulations would limit its potential life span, but an electrified variant may be able to bypass those problems entirely. The badge could also be used on a future WRX generation, a performance variant of one of Subaru’s more traditional cars, or a successor to the entire WRX line as we know it today.