Articles tagged "VW"

Volkswagen is teasing the ID. Aero with official sketches of the car shown before its digital debut on Monday, June 27. The car is intended to debut in the Chinese market with the company calling it “the first electric limousine”. VW ID. Aero is...

The world wants SUVs. Particularly in the electric era, the extra space under the cabin that can be filled with batteries makes these the most popular cars, at least in the beginning. VW has developed from clean sheet a dedicated EV platform called...

Not to be outdone by Tesla, who soon will beat the record for most price hikes in one year, VW is taking advantage of huge demand for EVs. The Wolfsburg giant does it slightly differently though, VW goes in with a bunch of gifts and trinkets before...

VW introduced another all-wheel-drive version to the hugely popular ID.4 and the new model is called the Pro 4Motion. This is the second twin-motor model available in the lineup after the ID.4 GTX. The ID.4 Pro 4Motion has slightly less power than...

Today Disney+ is releasing a new series on its streaming platform - Obi-Wan Kenobi - and to celebrate the event Volkswagen has brought two very special vans to Anaheim in California. The two vans are ID. Buzz Light Side Edition and ID. Buzz Cargo...

VW ID.1 has been rumored since 2020, it was meant to be on the market by 2023 but now we know it won’t happen until 2025. VW kept going back and forth to the drawing board, seemingly not happy with the initial designs. Now since we have seen the...

VW’s Emden plant is not a new factory, but it has now been transformed from manufacturing Passat and Arteon models to manufacture only all-electric cars with first models of ID.4 already leaving the production line. The transformation cost €1...

VW has just announced that it's partnering with India's Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Mahindra). Mahindra will use electric components, like motors, battery system components, and battery cells, from VW's modular electric drive matrix platform (MEB)....

With the German BAFA (Federal Office of Economics and Export Control) leaking the price list of the VW ID. Buzz a couple of days ago, VW had to act itself and pushed the start button on pre-orders for the long awaited EV van. Prices are for the...

Tesla Model 3 has a growing group of competitors - we have the award winning Hyundai Ioniq 5, we have the Swedish Polestar 2 trying to pull some customers away from Tesla and soon we'll have VW joining the squabble. The latest model from the German...

During the Financial Times’ Future of the Car summit, the CEO of VW Group admitted that it is way too early for the entire industry to transition from fossil fuels to electric power only. Herbert Diess explained to the audience that despite so many...

If you don’t remember the VW ID Life shown last year don’t worry, we’ll put a photo of it just below. That prototype was well received and VW was working towards production sometime in 2025 but that goal appears to have changed. VW Group has just...

Do you remember the VW ID.X shown last year? The EV equivalent of Golf R was so well received that VW decided to put it into production at some point in the future. And then it all went quiet. Until now. VW ID.X interior VW spokesperson...

If you want a Volkswagen EV and haven't yet placed your order, and you live in Europe or the US, here's some bad news for you. According to a new report from the Financial Times, quoting VW CEO Herbert Diess, the company has sold out of EVs for the...

VW's ID. Buzz electric van definitely saw a lot of... excuse the pun... Buzz lately, and so in honor of World Design Day (which apparently is a thing), the company decided to showcase something really out there. We're talking about an ID. Buzz...

VW finally realised the importance of reliable charging infrastructure for an EV revolution to happen and decided to act on it. With a big fanfare, the company announced it is here to fix your charging problems. So what is it doing? VW calls it a...

VW's MEB EV platform is due to get some enhancements soon, according to a presentation by Dr. Silke Bagschik, the company's head of sales and marketing for the ID. family. The MEB platform is what the ID.3, ID.4, ID.5, and ID. Buzz all use. Future...

VW will drop some 60% of its car fleet by the end of the decade and move its focus to fewer, more premium, and higher quality cars. Speaking to the Financial Times, VW CFO Arno Antlitz announced the shift in company thinking, which is the...

Norway is on the run - electric run. Their plan is to have only electric cars sold by 2025 and it looks that they will achieve the target much earlier. They threw caution out the window, stopped worrying about range, cold temperatures and became the...

Last month VW started aggressively teasing the upcoming ID. Buzz van / "people mover", but the marketing materials only looked at the exterior on that occasion. This has finally been rectified today, through a new set of images, this time showing us...