VW names €20,000 electric car
Volkswagen has unveiled an electric car that it plans to sell for €20,000.
The vehicle, to be called the ID.every1, will be launched in 2027 with front-wheel drive, 166kW motor and range of up to 450 km and based on the id2.all which will be launched later this year. Reducing the cost of electric vehicles is seen as a key route to drive more adoption.
Both the low cost vehicles use an evolution of the modular electric drive (MEB) platform developed with NXP for the battery management system and Vitesco powertrain and will be built in Germany at Wolfsburg. There will be nine new electric VW models by 2027 including the production version of the ID.2all for less than €25,000 and the entry-level electric car for about €20,000.
“With the conclusion of negotiations in December, we set the largest future plan in Volkswagen’s history in motion,” said Thomas Schäfer, CEO of the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand. “An affordable, high-quality, and profitable electric Volkswagen from Europe for Europe – that’s the Champions League of automotive engineering.”
“The ID. 2all will be the first MEB vehicle with front-wheel drive. We are exploiting the great flexibility offered by our modular electric drive (MEB) platform and will set new standards in terms of technology and everyday usability with the MEB Entry platform,” said Kai Grünitz, Member of the Brand Board of Management responsible for Technical Development. MEB is also used by VW group companies Audi and Skoda as well as by Ford in a strategic deal.
An electric Golf and T-Roc will also be built at Wolfsburg using the Scalable Systems Platform (SSP) that is the next generation of an all-electric, fully digitalized, highly scalable mechatronics platform based on a uniform system architecture.
Since the launch in 2019, VW has sold a total of more than 1.35 million ID. vehicles throughout the world, including about 500,000 for the ID.3. Last year, the Volkswagen brand sold 383,100 all-electric vehicles.
“By relocating Golf production to Mexico, we are creating space for modern technologies. New production processes will be introduced in Hall 54 and our goal is to build the next-generation electric Golf on the new SSP platform there, along with the high-volume electric T-Roc. This will establish Wolfsburg as the capital of our new all-electric compact class,” said Schäfer.
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