VW New Electric Vehicle (render)
Volkswagen has just shown its all-electric study
through a set of sketches. The German car manufacturer had teased
the model ahead of its 2016 Paris Auto Show debut, saying “the vehicle is as
revolutionary as the Beetle was seven decades ago before it evolved into the
world’s best-selling car of the last century”.
Volkswagen will put it into production around
the year 2019. This study is the second step in Volkswagen’s plan to confine
the “Dieselgate” saga in the history books by focusing its resources on
electric vehicles.
Visually, it looks like a mash-up between the Up!
and the Golf, sporting sliding rear doors and futuristic accents. According to
Autocar, the production car based on it will be a true folks-wagon, offering
Passat-rivaling interior space in a Golf-size suit.
The vehicle will be underpinned by the new
modular electrification kit (MEB), and offer between 402 km
- 482 km of traveling range on a single charge that’ll take only 15 minutes to
complete.
