First Fully Electric VW ID. ERA Vehicle — ID. ERA 5X SUV
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SAIC Volkswagen, a joint venture between SAIC and Volkswagen (duh) in China, has submitted a filing for the company’s first fully electric ID. ERA vehicle, the ID. ERA 5X SUV. XPENG was involved a bit too, but I’ll come back to that later.
Earlier today, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) released a long, two-page list of new models permitted for sale in the country. The ID. ERA 5X was one of those models. These filings help us to learn about coming models well before they come to market. Of course, one key thing they don’t tell us is how much the vehicles will cost, but they tell us a lot of other information.
The ID. ERA 5X comes with a 155 kW peak power output and the following dimensions:
- 4,560 mm — length
- 1,896 mm — wide
- 1,630 mm — high
- 2,815 mm — wheelbase
The car will use LFP batteries from CATL.
This is also the first model globally to be built on the CEA (China Electronic Architecture) and to use the CMP (China Main Platform). The CEA was developed by Volkswagen and XPENG.
SAIC Volkswagen also announced today that another ID. ERA model is coming soon. Pre-sales begin on August 11, and the sedan will launch in the third quarter.
There is one ID. ERA model already on the market. That’s the ID. ERA 9X. However, the ID. ERA 9X is an extended-range electric vehicle rather than a fully electric vehicle.
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