Volkswagen has revealed that the electric up! – the VW e-up! EV – will cost £24,250 when it gores on sale next week, with customers paying £19,250 after grant.
VW e-up! electric city car costs £24,250
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The Volkswagen e-up! (we’ve already done the northern jokes) was revealed back in March as VW’s weapon of choice for the electric city car market and now, with the e-up! dues to go on sale next week, VW has revealed it will cost £24,250.
The nearest rival to the e-up! – the Renault Zoe – costs almost £5k less than the e-up!, but the Zoe doesn’t include batteries in the price – they’ll cost you from £70 a month – whereas the e-up! does.
With an electric motor delivering 81bhp the e-up! can – under ideal conditions – deliver a range of 93 miles and will zip around town very well, with a full recharge taking around nine hours once you’ve drained the batteries, six hours with the optional wall box or an 80 per cent quick charge in 30 minutes.
To extend the range a bit, the e-up! comes with two eco driving modes, with the ECO mode cutting power to 67bhp and turning down the power available to stuff like the AirCon, and ECO+ going further still by dropping power to 54bhp and turning off the AirCon completely. You might be better off walking.
Just one spec is available for the e-up!, but it does include AirCon, heated front seats (won’t that hurt the range in winter?), heated windscreen (ditto), DAB, Cruise and SatNav. But you will have a choice of colour.
The VW e-up! EV goes on sale on December 2nd with first UK deliveries expected in January 2014.
Chris says
So the entry level up only costs £250, think I’ll go and bag me a few for Christmas, should be able to make a few £££’s profit on that!, even if your inc the Gov bribe, that makes the entry level up……..£5000….do your sums!
Cars UK says
A 9 instead of a 1 in error. But we knew what we actually meant – as did you!
Chris says
Lets not let the facts get in the way of a good headline hey, thumping £11k isn’t quite as strong as a thumping £19k, all brands entering the brave new world of electric cars should be praised, the critical volumes required to drive the prices down and the infra structure will always make this sector expensive in the early years but it needs to happen. Manufactures need as much support from Government, local Government and dare I say it….the motoring press rather than snide side ways swipes at them.