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 Dieselgate broke VW were playing a bit with EVs.

Taking the car that symbolises VW’s ‘second age’ (the Beetle was the ‘first age’, the new ID range of EVs the ‘third age’) and giving it an electric powertrain, VW revealed the first e-Golf back in 2013, and it went on sale in 2014.

With a list price starting at over £30k, that first e-Golf had a 118-mile range and a 113bhp electric motor with a spec based on the Golf SE.

VW updated the e-Golf in 2017 – and it still cost over £30k – with 134bhp and a more impressive range of 186 miles thanks to a bigger battery pack, and, as the new ID. 3 looms to take up the EV mantle, they cut the price of the e-Golf earlier this year by £3k.

Now, with production of the e-Golf just about over, Volkswagen has managed to hit a significant milestone in sales, with the 100,000th e-Golf delivered to a customer in Germany (above).

Holger B. Santel, VW’s Head of Sales in Germany, said:

The e-Golf has already been our ambassador for e-mobility for more than five years. Today’s delivery milestone of 100,000 vehicles is confirmation of the e-Golf’s success in fulfilling its mission. It therefore plays an important role in the mobility turnaround for many customers and paves the way for the new ID.3.