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Five things to do while charging your ID.4 EV

Across the United States, public fast-charging stations are rapidly appearing at shopping malls, grocery stores and gas stations – making it easier, quicker and more convenient than ever to charge your electric vehicle on the go. Electrify America is the nation’s largest open DC fast-charging network with more than 600 charging stations and more than 2,600 individual DC fast chargers, including the completion of two cross-country and two coastal routes in 2020, and growing. The network pl

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#TBT: Volkswagen Golf GTI W12-650, the ultimate hot hatch concept car

Over the past 40 years, the Volkswagen Golf GTI has become the standard of hot hatchbacks worldwide for its balance of performance and affordability. Yet one of the most memorable concepts ever to emerge from Volkswagen with the Golf GTI name pushed the performance side of that balance to the extreme. The Golf GTI W12-650 was introduced in 2007 when Volkswagen designers needed a showstopping concept car to debut at Wörthersee. The VW-backed festival is one of the largest events for Volksw

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Magazine

Getting your first electric vehicle: What to know

With the launch of the all-new Volkswagen ID.4 electric vehicle, there's never been a better time to go electric. The ID.4 makes a definitive statement that an EV can deliver all the style, comfort, convenience, and value you’ve come to expect from gas-powered cars. It also proves that EVs can be fun to own and drive. If you’re unfamiliar with what it’s like to own an EV, here’s some important information to get you started. At-home charging is easy and convenient. The Volkswagen ID.4 i

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Magazine

‘I knew that was the one’: A conversation with Atlas parents

  The Volkswagen Atlas SUV has earned a reputation as an ideal choice for families. Cars.com, in awarding its 2021 Family Car of the Year honor to Atlas, says that “the Atlas combines space and drivability in a way its rivals have yet to beat.” Now, with an array of enhancements for model-year 2021, including new wheel and headlight designs, as well as new driver-assistance technology available on certain trim levels, the Atlas has even more family appeal. Recently Volkswagen L

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Magazine

6 driving situations where IQ.DRIVE can lend a hand

No matter how focused you are when behind the wheel, or how careful you are in everyday driving, things happen—like a sudden obstacle or a vehicle you can’t see in your mirrors. And no matter how comfortable it is inside your vehicle, that highway commute can be a little stressful. To help you better manage these situations, Volkswagen has developed advanced driver-assistance technology called IQ.DRIVE. Available on many model-year 2021 Volkswagen vehicles and standard on the Volkswagen ID.4

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What it took to drive the Volkswagen ID.4 through 840 miles of desert

For more than half a century, off-roaders have flocked to Mexico’s Baja Peninsula. It's a notoriously dangerous yet exhilarating place to leave the pavement behind and explore cactus forests, forge dry lake beds, and power through sand washes. The climate can switch from blazing to frigid in a matter of minutes, and the roads can be ruts or just dust paths. It’s not a place for the weak. At the end of April, a specially modified Volkswagen ID.4 electric SUV became the first production EV to c

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#TBT: The ESVW I, designed with vehicle safety in mind

Few inventions have saved as many lives as the safety belt. It’s easy to take its benefits for granted, but safety belt technology has come a long way in five decades — thanks in part to efforts like the Volkswagen ESVW I. In the late 1960s, as some 60,000 Americans a year were dying in car crashes, the U.S. Department of Transportation introduced an experimental safety vehicle project, asking carmakers and outside firms to develop vehicles designed with safety as the top priority. The go

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An inside look at a cross country road trip with the Volkswagen ID.4 EV

https://youtu.be/6q1dSGHyzRg Last month, two of the electric vehicle experts at Volkswagen set off in a new Volkswagen ID.4 electric SUV with the mission to cover 6,700 miles across the United States – from New York to Sacramento, California – highlighting the impressive range of the ID.4 (an EPA-rated 260 miles), easy charging and its ability to go the scenic route on electricity alone. Dustin Krause, director of e-mobility for Volkswagen of America, and Tod Xelowski, manager of e-mobilit

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Company

On Earth Day, Project1Hour supercharges consideration of environmental goals

For this year’s Earth Day, the Volkswagen Group will move globally while thinking locally. On April 22, the company will ask all 660,000 employees worldwide to engage in an hour-long conversation and brainstorm around climate change and environmental protection. The event, called Project1Hour, will lend momentum to Volkswagen’s existing sustainability initiatives while giving shape to new ideas that could carry the company – and the industry – in an innovative, more sustainable direction.

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Volkswagen teams with muralist Steffi Lynn and The Conservation Fund for an artistic Earth Day tribute

Making a statement about the environment can be about more than planting trees - it can also come in the form of community art. As part of a partnership with The Conservation Fund, Volkswagen commissioned Steffi Lynn, a Brooklyn and Austin-based artist, designer and illustrator who uses whimsy, color and character to create playful murals with positive messages, to create a one-of-a-kind mural in Chattanooga, Tenn. The vibrant mural, located on the side of a local Chattanooga business,

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Safety

Safety stars and cars: How Volkswagen cars receive their high safety marks

Over the past four decades, the number of vehicles Americans drive and distance they cover every year has grown dramatically – with some 276 million vehicles registered as of 2019, traveling 3 trillion miles a year. And yet, the rate of crash deaths per 100,000 people in 2019 was around half of what it was four decades ago. That’s due to the work of federal and industry crash-safety standards, which have driven innovations in vehicle safety and helped save thousands of lives. In the Unite

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Chattanooga

Volkswagen Chattanooga marks the 10th anniversary of first vehicle assembled

Volkswagen is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the first customer vehicle to roll off the assembly line at its Chattanooga, Tennessee assembly plant. On April 18, 2011, a Passat SEL in Night Blue Metallic equipped with a 2.5-liter engine, automatic transmission, leather interior and 18-inch wheels became the first customer vehicle to be assembled in Chattanooga. “Our Chattanooga family began with the birth of our Passat,” said Dean Parker, head of manufacturing at Volkswagen Chattanoog

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Vehicles

#TBT: Volkswagen celebrates five colorful art cars from around the world

Many museums and galleries remain closed due to COVID-19 — but that doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate the holiday for artists worldwide. On April 15, Leonardo da Vinci’s birthday, an annual observance is held to honor and encourage artistic creativity and expression. To celebrate this year, we are featuring five artfully adorned cars that feature everything, from beads to paint to metalwork. Learn more about these creative, colorful cars and the compelling stories behind them. The Vochol:

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Preparing and upskilling auto workers for the EV revolution

The Volkswagen Academy is making electrifying additions to its curriculum. With the recent introduction of the new all-electric ID.4, the Volkswagen Academy at the Chattanooga plant is transforming its vocational training program to include new courses on EV technology – from working with high voltage batteries to performing advanced welding work. Founded in 2010, the Volkswagen Academy is modeled after several successful Volkswagen apprenticeship programs in Germany. The Academy is tw

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Vehicles

The latest Volkswagen 2021 Enthusiast Fleet showstopper: The Tiguan SE R-Line Black RiNo Concept

Volkswagen recently revealed its latest addition to the 2021 Enthusiast Fleet family — a sleek and sporty all-black Tiguan SE R-Line Black RiNo Concept, named for the Riverside North arts district in downtown Denver, Colorado. The concept was designed by Jamie Orr and incorporates a selection of partners from the automotive aftermarket to showcase the athletic mid-size SUV’s adventurous style, strength and spirit. Orr, a Volkswagen enthusiast and car collector, had a clear vision for the

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Owners

A professional BMX biker’s lifelong connection to Volkswagen

It’s hard to mistake Damon Dayton’s affection for Volkswagen: his garage is chock full of vintage Buses and Beetles, he has multiple Volkswagen tattoos, and his closet is packed with Volkswagen wares. “The Volkswagen love has been consistent throughout my entire life,” says the 48-year-old professional BMX rider and mechanic, who has owned some 150 Volkswagen vehicles through the years. “It’s a way of life for me.” Growing up in Antioch, California, Dayton was surrounded by cars. His p

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Volkswagen explores the future of automotive AI in the Motor City

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a popular catchphrase in technology, even if most people couldn’t exactly define what it really is. One promise of AI lies in finding patterns across huge datasets that make everyday business smarter and more efficient – and for Volkswagen in North America, the hub of AI development lives in Detroit. “We want to leverage new opportunities in applied Artificial Intelligence to further improve products and services for our customers, supporting our em

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News

Meet two of the first Volkswagen ID.4 EV owners: a solar-powered grandmother and a baseball superfan

Alice Dibben has always been ahead of the curve when it comes to technology. A former cryptanalyst at the National Security Agency, she mastered early modern computing systems to help collect and decipher complex codes. At age 80, she installed 120 solar panels on the roof of her barn in Pasadena, Md., to help reduce her carbon footprint. And now, the 91-year-old grandmother and horse breeder has kept her innovation streak going by embracing electric driving with the Volkswagen ID.4 EV.

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