The Volkswagen Up! GTI has returned to VW’s UK showrooms after a hiatus in 2019, with things much the same but prices up by around £2k. It’s only two years since the Volkswagen Up! GTI went on sale in the UK, bringing a lot of what the original Golf GTI offered as a proper little […]
Volkswagen ‘Charging Robots’ bring Electric Car charging to you in a car park
Volkswagen has developed ‘Charging Robots’ which deliver a charging pack to electric cars in a car park instead of fixed charging points. Whether you’re on VW’s side in believing we’re at the tipping point for electric cars, or Honda’s in believing EVs won’t be mainstream any time soon, recharging of electric cars is still a […]
This is the SOUND of the electric Volkswagen ID. 3
With the electric Volkswagen ID. 3 soon to start hitting UK roads, VW has revealed the sound the ID. 3 will have to make for the first time. Although we fully understand the need to make electric cars emit a sound at low speeds to keep the visually impaired – and the terminally dozy – […]
Volkswagen Touareg SUV range DOUBLES in size in the UK
Volkswagen is doubling the size of the Touareg SUV range in the UK, with new SE, SEL Tech and Black Edition models adding to the current range. It’s 18 months since the current Volkswagen Touareg SUV went on sale after a major overhaul, since when VW has been busy expending the Touareg offerings to cover […]
Volkswagen ID.3 on UK public roads as VW and Tesco mark FREE electric car charging at 100 sites
Volkswagen and Tesco are rolling out electric car charging at Tesco stores around the UK with Pod Point, with free charging at 100 sites so far. It’s more than a year since VW and Tesco announced free electric car charging was being rolled out across Tesco’s stores on the UK by Pod Point, and the […]
Volkswagen delivers the 100,000th VW e-Golf – just in time for the ID.3 to take up the EV mantle
The Volkswagen e-Golf – VW’s electric Golf – hits the significant milestone of 100,000 deliveries just before it end production. Volkswagen may be in the process of reinventing itself as a purveyor of fluffy green electric cars – now its fluffy green diesel cars have been proved to be anything but – but even before […]
The ELECTRIC Estate car arrives – Volkswagen ID. Space Vizzion revealed
The electric estate car arrives as Volkswagen reveals the ID. Space Vizzion at the Los Angeles Motor Show, previewing a production model for 2021. It feels like car makers are intent on throwing electric SUVs at us in droves at the moment, but now Volkswagen is previewing a truly practical electric car with the Volkswagen […]
VW plan to sell 26 MILLION electric cars by 2029 – but who’s going to buy them?
Volkswagen is further expanding its electrification plans, with £50 billion being spent to deliver 75 new EVs and sales of 26 million by 2029. Volkswagen has updated its plans to dive headlong in to electrification, but rather than be more cautious in a market that doesn’t really yet exist, VW is getting more ambitious. Its […]
Volkswagen ID. Space Vizzion is another electric VW ID model heading for production
The VW ID. Space Vizzion is teased in a new sketch as another electric VW ID model heading for production as a large electric estate car. You might as well get used to VW ID electric models popping up on a regular basis as VW reinvents itself as ‘Electric VW’, and this is the latest […]
This is the first proper look at the Volkswagen ID.4 ELECTRIC SUV
The next instalment in Volkswagen’s electric offensive is previewed by a photo of the VW ID.4 electric SUV in camouflage at the Guangzhou Motor Show. We’ve seen the start of Volkswagen’s plans to get everybody and his dog in to an electric car with the arrival of the VW ID.3, to all intents and purposes […]