There is something odd about the Volkswagen ID.4. The vehicle has yet to be properly unveiled. This would make sense considering the fact that this vehicle is slated to be released in either early 2022 or late 2021 and a new vehicle model is usually unveiled about a year before release — or is it?
On Wednesday, July 15, 2020, in Yokohama, Japan, the first big EV news from Nissan in about 10 years was shared with the world. Am I over the top with this statement? Probably, but I have forgotten how many years we have waited for this companion to the Nissan Leaf.
Volkswagen’s Zwickau factory is switching 100% to electric vehicles. It will produce a total of 6 models from 3 Volkswagen Group brands (Volkswagen, Audi, and Seat). Today was the last day it produced a fossil fuel vehicle, vehicle #6,049,207 from the factory under Volkswagen’s reign, a Golf R Estate.
This is the 13th broadcast of CleanTechnica’s weekly news show. This week’s show covers a cleantech pandemic recovery plan, Volkswagen solid-state batteries and the ID.4, Tesla and Panasonic, the Tesla Model 3’s gross margin in China, 3D-printed wind turbines, and more.
Volkswagen has released details about the three battery packs that will power its MEB based electric vehicles.
When we asked thousands of electric vehicle (EV) owners in Europe the top reasons why they got their cars, we got similar responses as in previous years. The largest portion of buyers in every country referenced the environmental benefits.
EV owners we surveyed almost equally prefer a sedan/hatchback (car) or SUV/crossover for their next EV. The two options switched spots back and forth depending on the audience.
Additionally, in each of these countries, respondents mostly preferred a vehicle in the D-segment.
Volkswagen has released several videos that show some of the features of its ID.3 electric car that goes on sale this summer.
Perhaps the most fascinating new question in this year’s Electric Car Drivers: Demands, Desires & Dreams reports concerned the electric vehicles people considered but didn’t buy. We asked EV owners which other electric vehicle models they thought about buying before deciding on the one they purchased or leased. I was surprised to see how much people actually cross-shopped across classes while considering which electric vehicle to buy.
Probably the most interesting question we asked in these surveys was one of the simplest: “What do you think your next EV model will be?” It is particularly interesting because it gives us a strong sense of where the market is headed, and combined with answers to some other questions (see the next chapter), it also tells us a bit about which features and specs matter the most to EV buyers.
