Electric Volkswagen with 300 mile range to debut at Paris Motor Show

Volkswagen will reveal a new electric car at the Paris Motor Show in early October, says VW boss Hebert Diess, with a range of around 300 miles on a single charge.

Volkswagen is trying hard to reinvent itself as a ‘green’ car maker after the Dieselgate debacle, and part of that is plans to deliver a whole raft of electric cars to the market in the coming years to try and redeem themselves, and shift the blame for excessive emissions elsewhere in the process.

We already know about some of the ‘Premium’ VW Group EVs we can expect soon – like the Porsche Mission E and the Audi Q6 EV – but now we know there’s a new Volkswagen EV on the way thanks to VW’s CEO, Hebert Diess.

Speaking to German magazine Wirtschafts Woche (as reported by electrek), Diess confirmed the arrival of a new EV at Paris with a plug-in range of between 248 and 372 miles, which would seem likely to have a real-world range of around 300 miles. Which is impressive.

Diess also said the new VW EV will be about the size of a Golf but with the space of a Passat. Which does tend to suggest it will be a tall-ish vehicle (or a Tardis), perhaps even a production take on the Budd-E Concept (pictured above) we saw earlier in the year?

But whatever the new VW EV is – and it will not actually go in to production for another year or so – it should probably give Elon Musk sleepless nights.

Tesla has lit the fire for premium EVs, but with Tesla-challenging premium EVs hitting the market and a mainstream VW with a 300-mile range on the way, Tesla’s future does look likely to get a little more shaky than it already is.