Further details on Volkswagen’s commitment to electric vehicles in the coming years will most likely be disclosed in the coming days at the traditional conference on the financial results of the previous year.
But by combining all the information available – from spy photos to official reports – Carscoops magazine has already created an exhaustive roadmap of the next electric milestones which foresee the launch of 10 new battery-powered models by 2026, a figure that was officially confirmed by the CEO of Volkswagen Thomas Schäfer.
It should immediately be reiterated that all future electric vehicles from VW will be based on the updated MEB Plus architecture, which will offer improvements in terms of range, technology, safety and performance compared to models using the current platform introduced in 2019. After 2026 it will Its entry into the Volkswagen industrial world is the new modular architecture SSP (Scalable Systems Platform).
The renewal and expansion of the offer has begun these days with the ID.3 2024 edition undergoing a mid-life restyling. It will continue in 2024 with the ID.7, the brand’s first all-electric sedan, which aims to rival the Tesla Model 3. The debut is scheduled for April 17 at the Shanghai Auto Show, with parallel events to be held in Germany and the United States .
Volkswagen has not announced the technical specifications of the ID.7 but has promised an electric range of up to 700 km, which is probably close to the limit of the MEB Plus architecture with current technology and battery capacity.
The ‘hot’ variants of the ID.3 and ID.7, distinguished by the acronym GTX, will then make their debut (however, the replacement with GTI is being studied). They won’t be as extreme as the internal combustion engine R models, but they will offer superior performance, thanks to the dual engine for a total of 350 HP. This configuration should be inherited from the ID.4 GTX and ID.5 GTX, which have 299 HP.
In 2024, Volkswagen is expected to present the station wagon variant of the ID.7, further expanding its range of electric vehicles to cover hitherto neglected segments.
The zero-emission equivalent of the Passat Variant was closely anticipated by the ID. Space Vizzin of 2019.
The facelift and mid-life update of the ID.4 and ID.5 are also scheduled for 2025. Similar upgrades to the ID.3 are planned, including improved quality in the cabin. The launch of the electric entry-level with two body variants (sedan and crossover) is also planned for that period. No relation to the 2021 ID.Life, a model that came out of the company plans and completely redesigned.
According to the latest information, writes Carscoops, the electric entry-level will be previewed as a concept already in the next few days – almost certainly on March 15 at the 2022 financial results conference – but the production version won’t arrive before 2025. Although it was initially christened the ID.2, there are rumors that it may adopt the ID.Golf name, as the company wishes to keep this historic name alive in the age of electric vehicles. Finally, around 2024-2025, the long-wheelbase version with US specifications of the ID.Buzz minivan will arrive (much awaited in that market). The one called California and intended for camping will follow in the second half of the decade.
Source: Ansa
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