VW electric automobile plans include an SUV, MPV and much more ’emotional models’
Volkswagen will follow up its I.D. pure-electric hatchback with a production version of the I.D. Crozz SUV – and then the pair will be joined by a saloon, a microbus and a even more SUV, the firm’s chief has revealed.
The German brand is already committed to five cars on the VW Group’s new MEB platform, which is developed to maximise the packaging advantages of electric motors and batteries. The I.D. hatchback will be first – but VW boss Herbert Diess has now confirmed the body styles of the other four MEB automobiles his brand will certainly produce by early in the next decade.
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“The I.D. hatchback is proceeding well,” Diess said. “We have just signed off on the exterior and the interior of that automobile a few weeks ago. then we will have an SUV, a sedan, a microbus – which can also take us into the very essential area of delivery cars – and one much more SUV. We already have Tiguan and Tiguan XL so we have to reflect that in MEB as well.”
Diess also admitted that VW is exploring options to create ‘emotional’ cars – a range that could include an all-electric successor to the existing Scirocco, as described by car express in August 2017.
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“Nothing is confirmed but we are exploring the emotional vehicles,” he said. “We need to get our core of cars finalised, which will happen over the next five or six months; these are automobiles that will cover 70 percent of the market that we’re aiming for. then we can look at niches.
“There is the Scirocco, which we have not chose on a successor for yet. and there is also the Beetle and the Beetle Convertible. We’ve been asking ourselves if we can make emotional pure-electric cars, because there is no engine noise, for example. The answer, we think, is yes – so as soon as we complete our work on the core vehicles, we’ll be taking a look at that side of things.”
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