Volkswagen ID — Anatomy Of A Fully Electric Ecosystem
The Volkswagen ID is not just a sub-brand like Mercedes-Benz’s EQ or Citroen’s DS. It is a set of systems that enable carefree electric driving, forming an eco-system.
The Volkswagen ID is not just a sub-brand like Mercedes-Benz’s EQ or Citroen’s DS. It is a set of systems that enable carefree electric driving, forming an eco-system.
Without ambition, you go nowhere. Let that be clear. Volkswagen is showing a lot of ambition, what is very great.
The news of the day is that Tesla bought around 79% of Maxwell’s shares on May the 15th, 2019, after the acquisition offer was extended twice. The original proposal was from February 4th, 2019, and was discussed well by our authors in “Tesla Inks Deal To Acquire Maxwell Technologies In Stock Deal” and “The Ultracapacitors, Electrodes, & Battery Manufacturing Tech Tesla Gets With Maxwell Technologies.”
Today was another exciting day for the electric drive aficionados. Volkswagen presented its ID. sub-brand to the world, with the first model, the ID.3, ready for reservation. The times that VW was short for VaporWare are over.
It is not often that the Wall Street analysts prove Elon Musk right by themselves being wrong within just a few days.
It was again time to visit the beautiful surroundings of Geneva.
I have to eat crow. That is the civilized way to say it. What I wrote was completely off. It was logical, believable, and wrong. After submitting it, I thought I should have included that famous line about complex problems having simple answers that are completely wrong — a point I did prove. Another way of saying it, it was FUBAR.
It’s time for quarterly Tesla production and delivery numbers — or almost time for them. But don’t mistake either of these for sales.
Just like last year, the first car we checked out at the Geneva Motor Show was the new Polestar. Last year, the Polestar 1 was a stunning new car, the best looking new car at the show — in our prejudiced eyes at least. This year, the Polestar 2 is again a beauty. Whether it is again the queen of the show, is in another article.
One of the great things about visiting new places as a journalist is you get to look differently at what you see. The Geneva Motor Show is different because I don’t just look at what triggers my fancy. I look for what is there to write about for CleanTechnica readers. Without that purpose, I probably would not have visited the show at all.