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After taking reservations for months, Volkswagen began promoting the Electric ID.3 to the general public on July 20. This is a step that hastens the company’s electrification offensive, yet the sedan is just the tip of the wire. loading. Autoblog has learned that the BENDy MEB platform gives Volkswagen enormous freedom to publish customer models and niches, but that does not exempt it from the desire to prepare a business case.
“The smallest [MEB-based car] is ID.3.If we bring smaller cars, what we will do in 2023-2024, will be in an adapted edition of this platform.It’ll be smaller. But, the smallest car on the existing platform is the ID.3,” Thomas Ulbrich, a member of Volkswagen’s board of directors for mobility, told Autoblog.
Volkswagen has not said much publicly about what will be faster or later under the ID.3.At the time of writing this article, its maximum compact electric style is a drum variant of the Up!Sold in Europe, what Ulbrich alluded to may simply update the E-Up!, or it may arrive as a larger car whose external dimensions are aligned with the Pole, a popular sedan of the global market that rivals the Ford Fiesta.
At the other end of the spectrum, the flexibility of Volkswagen architecture to see big.
“The largest we will produce is a stretched D-segment sedan for the Chinese market.This can be the Vizzion ID or something similar. It’s pretty much the upper limit, in terms of size.In terms of weight, it’s the ID. Buzz.We already have to rely on the MEB, even if it requires some accommodations,” Ulbrich said.
Volkswagen had shown in the past that the production edition of the ID concept.Buzz, inherited by inheritance, is expected to go into production in Germany in 2022, meaning it probably wouldn’t reach the United States until 2023.One of his first public outings will be at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.largely with Qatari officials to reliably deploy a fleet of Autonomous Buzz-based prototypes during the event.
MEB evolved in particular for electric motors; It is not compatible with hydrogen or hybrid technology, much less with a transmission that is not electrified.Hydrogen is not the ideal solution for passenger cars, according to Ulbrich, but it adapts well to heavy programs such as trucks.However, he told Autoblog that the Amarok (the only truck with chassis and bodywork in the Volkswagen portfolio) would be hypothetically in the electrical aspect of the range.
“It’s a complicated discussion, having a Amarok or a similar car that uses the BEV generation.We’re looking for what Rivian is doing, because it’s usually hard for a car like the Amarok, for example, to just be electrified.”, however, step by step, our research and our studies make us think that this fits as much as possible.By making this generation increasingly robust, a Amarok type car would be BEV.”
This is not a confirmation that Volkswagen is actively planning an electric pickup truck.The second-generation Amarok is just around the corner and will be combined with the replacement of the Ford Ranger, thanks to the burgeoning partnership between the two companies.takes the Amarok to the territory of electric vehicles, you will have to locate a suitable platform.MEB is not an option as it is a monohestural architecture.
There are several market segments that separate ID.3 from ID.Vizzion, but don’t expect Volkswagen to fill them all up. As the brand’s diversity of electric cars expands to come with many chassis styles, Ulbrich told us that his team was in no hurry to launch some other coupe like the Scirocco, which retired for the 3rd.2017.” I don’t think so,” he replied with a trail of remorse when asked if a fourth-generation style, electric or gas, was on the way.
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