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Meet the ID. CROZZ, a Preview of Volkswagen’s First Electric SUV Expected in 2020
Electric vehicles are the future of transportation, but making that future a reality will require a lot of innovation and manufacturing know-how. Today, Volkswagen unveiled one of its major steps toward an electric future with the first North American appearance of the ID. CROZZ concept vehicle in Los Angeles – a four-door, all-wheel-drive SUV that previews the next-generation Volkswagen electric vehicle anticipated to arrive in America in 2020. Built from the same platform that is expected t
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America’s first Volkswagen e-Golf owner on driving electric
Bruce Oberg is a Volkswagen enthusiast, long-time electric car driver and the first owner of the Volkswagen e-Golf. In November 2014, Oberg placed a $41,400 bid on the 2015 e-Golf through an auction on CharityBuzz.com. Two years later, Oberg continues to be a happy VW e-Golf owner, with a passion for electric driving. We asked him to tell us what the experience has been like so far: Take us back to 2014, how was your overall experience in becoming the first e-Golf owner? When I saw that V
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Why VW’s first electric race car previews the future of EVs
Last week, Volkswagen Motorsport revealed the first all-electric race car in the company’s history. Built with the goal of setting a new record for the race up Pikes Peak in June, the I.D. R Pikes Peak combines cutting-edge motorsports engineering with Volkswagen’s growing expertise in electric mobility. And while the custom-built race car was designed for one purpose, it also previews the technology that will help make electric vehicles a more mainstream reality. Pikes Peak ranks as the wor
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Meet the Volkswagen platform designed to spawn 10 million electric vehicles
It’s not often that you get to see the future of transportation in such nuts-and-bolts detail. But this isn’t just any future vehicle chassis. In German, it’s called the “Modulare E-Antriebs-Baukasten,” which provides the source of its acronym at Volkswagen: MEB. Translated, its name means “modular electric-drive toolkit,” and it’s designed to be the basic building block of the Volkswagen brand’s electric transportation future. The MEB will form the basis of the future anticipated Volk
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VW’s electric I.D. aims for the pinnacle with R Pikes Peak
After a 34-year absence, Volkswagen will return to the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb this June with the I.D. R Pikes Peak – an all-electric race car designed with the goal of setting a new record for one of the world’s toughest motorsports events. Designed as a showcase of the technology behind Volkswagen’s upcoming I.D. production electric cars, the R Pikes Peak will race up the mountain on June 24th with three-time Pikes Peak champion Romain Dumas at the wheel. “The I.D. R Pikes Pe
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Volkswagen ID. BUZZ CARGO: The electric van that could deliver the future
As electric vehicles evolve, there will be a need for them to adapt to all the shapes and sizes of vehicles we have today. No type of vehicle may be more ready for an all-electric future than delivery vans – and Volkswagen has an idea to deliver that future to your neighborhood in the ID. BUZZ CARGO concept. While it’s based on the ID. BUZZ concept, the ID. BUZZ CARGO has several major updates throughout to transform it into an all-electric workhorse with autonomous driving capability. Longer
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Watch the electric ID.R set a record on one of the most beautiful roads in the world
It’s known as “Heaven’s Gate” – the world’s highest naturally formed arch, with an opening some 430 feet tall and 190 feet wide, about 5,000 feet up China’s Tianmen mountain. A hallowed and scenic site for centuries, visitors can reach the gate on a road that ranks among the most scenic, and twisting, of any in the world, with 99 sharp switchbacks. Earlier this month, the Volkswagen ID.R team went to the Tianmen Mountain Big Gate Road to set the first benchmark there of any kind for a perform
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