2020 Volkswagen E-Up! longer range CONFIRMED

The new VW E-Up! will debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September, and will come with a range of 155 miles confirms VW in the Netherlands.

We like the VW Up! (despite its exclamation mark), but we’ve never been able to get our heads around why VW delivered an electric Up! with a silly price and woeful range.

On paper, an electric Up! should be the perfect city car, but the current e-Up! costs around £25k (or did) and, in the real world, can manage around 65 miles on a charge.

But VW revealed in May that a new e-Up! for 2020 would come with more range but, oddly, they haven’t delivered any news officially on exactly what that will mean.

We say oddly, because we now know that other parts of the VW Group have already revealed their new take on the yet to arrive 2020 e-Up!

The new SEAT Mii comes with a 36.8kWh battery pack for a range of 155-160 miles, and the new Skoda Citigo e iV gets the same. But now we know the 2020 e-Up! will get the same underpinnings.

We know, not because VW has issued a press release to tell us (unless we missed it), but because VW in Holland has already posted details of the 2020 e-Up!, and are taking orders.

VW’s Dutch site also confirms that, in addition to the extra range, it’ll take just an hour to charge the new e-Up! to 80 per cent on a fast charger, and that it has better performance than the current e-Up!

Let’s hope the price goes down, not ‘e-Up!’.