Volkswagen laid out on Wednesday the details of a planned
all-electric car costing under 25,000 euros ($26,790), part of the German
carmaker's push to derive 80% of VW passenger brand sales in Europe from
all-electric vehicles by 2030.
The car with a 450-km range (280 miles), to launch in Europe
by 2025, will be the first on Volkswagen's modular electric platform to feature
a front-wheel drive, with design elements that hark back to the first Golf, VW
said in a statement.
The battery will charge from 10% to 80% in around 20
minutes, with the car's top speed hitting 160 km per hour.
"We are implementing the transformation at pace to
bring electric mobility to the masses," VW brand chief Thomas Schaefer
said in a statement.
The carmaker is also working on another electric car
available for under 20,000 euros, it said, without providing further details.
In 2022, Volkswagen unveiled a production version of its
long-awaited ID. Buzz van in Paris — an electric reincarnation of its Microbus
or Kombi — due to go on sale in a number of European countries in the third
quarter of 2022.
The van will also launch in the United States in late 2023,
the German automaker said in a statement, adding it is the first in a series of
prototypes released in the past decade to successfully make it to the
production stage.
Made in Hanover with modules supplied mostly by Volkswagen
Group Components in Germany, the vehicle runs on an 82 kWh lithium-ion battery
and can reach a maximum speed of 90 miles an hour, Volkswagen said.
Other versions with batteries offering different power
outputs will follow next year, the company said.
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