In a new announcement, Volkswagen confirmed that all electric vehicles that are underpinned by its MEB-platform will support bidirectional charging starting next year. It had…
View More Volkswagen’s MEB-Based EVs to Receive Bidirectional Charging in 2022
According to a new report from Reuters, Tesla is apparently selling EV credits to Volkswagen in China. The reason? Because the German automaker has yet to…
View More Chinese Mandate Opens the Door for Tesla to Make Bank Off Volkswagen
Volkswagen is inching closer to overtaking Tesla’s title of the world’s largest electric carmaker in recent months. The German automaker recently announced a multimillion dollar…
View More Volkswagen Enters the Race to Bring an Electric Pickup Truck to Market
A new report that was posted and quickly removed on Monday afternoon revealed Volkswagen’s plans to change the name of its American brand to Voltswagen.…
View More Volkswagen Turns its American Brand Electric with One Letter
On April 17, 2021 the Shanghai Auto Show will be held where Volkswagen is expected to introduction the two Chinese Volkswagen ID.6 versions, the ID.6…
View More Volkswagen ID.6 CROZZ and ID.6 X to be Equipped with 84.4 kWh Battery
The Volkswagen Group wants to make electric mobility accessible to everyone. For this reason, it recently presented an ambitious, comprehensive strategy that will include the…
View More Porsche Will Not Use Volkswagen Group’s Modular SSP Platform
According to Volkswagen CEO Ralf Brandstaetter, the automaker will phase out combustion engine vehicles and has no plans to develop new internal combustion engines. In…
View More VW Will Not Develop Any New Combustion Engines
Last week, The Next Avenue reported on a mystery EV that was believed to be the design of the upcoming Volkswagen ID.2. Members of the…
View More Mystery EV Design Found by Autovisie is Claimed. Is it the VW ID.2?
During the last weeks, numerous images of the Volkswagen ID.6, an electric SUV located one step above the well-known ID.4, were leaked to the network.…
View More Volkswagen ID.6 Specifications are Leaked
According to new reports coming out of Germany, Volkswagen’s revival of its classic microbus, the electric VW ID.Buzz, may come with a starting price of…
View More VW ID.BUZZ Starting Price and Battery Capacity Revealed
During the “Power Day” event held earlier this week, Volkswagen showed the industry its ambitious plans in the field of batteries and charging infrastructure. It…
View More VW to Recycle 95% of its Battery Content: Creating Circular Economy
Members of the Dutch website, Autovisie, stumbled upon what they believe could be the upcoming Volkswagen ID.2. The ID.2 was recently pushed from its initial…
View More LEAKED: Volkswagen ID.2 Design
Electric cars are today more expensive than their internal combustion equivalents. Even though they are much simpler from a construction point of view (a heat…
View More Tesla’s Great Weakness Compared to Traditional Manufacturers
The Volkswagen Group announced a few days ago during the “Power Day” event to bet on a unified prismatic cell design starting in 2023. This…
View More All Volkswagen EVs will be Based on the New SSP Platform from 2024
During Volkswagen’s Power Day event, Volkwagen executives Thomas Schmall and Elke explained how they believe that by 2022 all MEB vehicles will be capable of…
View More VW Reveals it Aims to Make EV Charging Free During Power Day Event
The Volkswagen Group has confirmed an order of $14 billion worth of battery cells from Northvolt’s Swedish gigafactory. In addition to the multi-billion dollar order,…
View More Volkswagen Partners with Northvolt, Places $14 Billion Battery Cell Order
When the Volkswagen group designed the ID.4, it did so with an eye on the United States. A market where the German group will debut…
View More VW Designed the ID.4 to Conquer the 3 Largest Markets in the World
Volkswagen seems to have taken a page out of Tesla’s book and is planning to hold an event similar to the EV giant’s “Battery Day.”…
View More Volkswagen Follows Tesla’s Lead and Gears Up For Its Own “Power Day”
Volkswagen announced its “ACCELERATE” strategy today, which involves, you guessed it, accelerating its electrification and digitization plans. In recent months, it seems like every other…
View More VW’s New Strategy to ACCELERATE Towards an Electric Future
Volkswagen announced yesterday that it will begin pushing its over-the-air software updates to its ID electric vehicles. With this, the German automaker hopes to become…
View More VW’s First Over-the-Air Software Update is Hardly OTA
The Volkswagen brand CEO, Ralf Brandstätter, has announced via LinkedIn that the VW ID.3 could soon receive a convertible version. In his own words, such…
View More VW Confirms it’s Working on an ID.3 Electric Convertible
With the goal of reaching 300,000 electric cars manufactured in one year, Volkswagen has increased production at its Zwickau plant in Germany to 800 units…
View More VW Increases the Production of ID.3 and ID.4 to 800 Units Per Day
Herbert Diess, CEO of the Volkswagen group, is not satisfied with VW’s valuation compared to Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA). The multiple and repetitive statements of Diess…
View More Is Volkswagen Coming After Tesla on the Stock Market?
Volkswagen has officially confirmed its next ID electric vehicle will in fact be the ID.5. The ID.5 is going to be a coupé version of…
View More VW ID.5 Electric SUV Coupe Confirmed and in Pre-Production
SK Innovation is facing an huge setback after issues of stolen trade secrets surfaced in 2019. Issues that caused one of the leading battery suppliers for…
View More SK Innovation Ban Leaves Ford and VW Without Battery Supply
Volkswagen has just opened the order book for its new ID.4 electric SUV in the United States and thirty European countries. The German brand anticipates…
View More Volkswagen to Sell 100k ID.4 Units Globally in 2021
We have finally been able to get a glimpse of the production version of Volkswagen’s upcoming ID.6 as the very first images of the electric…
View More LEAKED: First Images of Volkswagen’s ID.6 Electric SUV
Stellantis, the automotive giant resulting from the merger between FCA (FIAT-Chrysler) and PSA (Peugeot-Citroën, Opel), currently has a very broad portfolio of 14 brands that…
View More Alfa Romeo Prepares an Electric Giulietta to Face the Volkswagen ID.3
Volkswagen predicts that between 6% and 8% of its global sales in 2021 will correspond to electric models. This increase compared to the 3% achieved…
View More Volkswagen Could Match Tesla’s Electric Car Production in 2021
Volkswagen continues to unravel new details of the Trinity project, through which it will develop its new electric flagship that will arrive in the middle…
View More Volkswagen Trinity Won’t be a Luxury Car but a Small Autonomous One
Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess seems to be following Elon Musk’s playbook, and not just in the battleground of electric vehicle manufacturing and sales. The German…
View More President of VW Takes its Battle with Tesla to Twitter
Following the Artemis division’s footsteps, which has become an independent company from Audi and the old rigid structures of the Volkswagen group, to manufacture luxury…
View More Trinity, VW´s Electric Flagship Project to Compete with the Big Boys
Despite the complicated situation experienced in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Volkswagen has seen its sales of electric cars increase to 134,000 units worldwide,…
View More VW Tripled EV Sales in 2020 with 134,000 Units Sold
the year 2020 will be one of the most historic for manufacturers due to its definitive embrace of electric mobility. But the pandemic disrupted many…
View More EVs Compensate for VW’s 2020 Drop in Sales
The ID.4, Volkswagen’s accurate response to the Ford Mustang Mach-E, Nissan Ariya, and Tesla Model Y, has an ambitious goal before it: to become the…
View More VW Already Allows Setting the ID.4 Pro Performance
One of the buyer’s main concerns when selecting a car is what residual value it will maintain over the years. Something that will allow you…
View More The VW e-Golf is the Least Devalued EV on the Market
According to a new email from Volkswagen, the German automakers is making a new batch of ID.4 1st Edition electric SUVs for the US market.…
View More VW to Make Additional Batch of 1st Edition ID.4 for the US
Volkswagen has unveiled a working prototype of an autonomous charging robot for electric cars. Volkswagen has been working on the concept for several years, but…
View More VW Unveils Working Mobile Charging Robot
Production of Volkswagen’s electric e-Golf is officially coming to an end today at the Transparent Factory in Dresden. The German automaker made the announcement saying…
View More The End of e-Golf Production Leaves Room for VW’s ID.3 to Shine
Volkswagen has developed a fast-charging station for electric vehicles in the deserts of Arizona in order to test charging at extremely high temperatures. Extreme weather…
View More VW to Test Fast-Charging in Extreme Temperatures at New Station in AZ
Herbert Diess, CEO of the Volkswagen Group, aims to transform the German giant from top to bottom to become one of the world’s largest electric…
View More VW Decides to Support Diess’s Aggressive Electrification Strategy
Youtube channel Battery Life set out to see how the upcoming Volkswagen ID.4 would fair as far as energy consumption and range at high speeds…
View More Watch How the VW ID.4 Handles 1° Celsius Weather and Wet Roads
Volkswagen unveiled today a new 22 kW bi-directional DC charging station for electric vehicles called the DC Wallbox. The bi-directional device could enable vehicle-to-grid functionality…
View More VW’s New Bi-Directional DC Charging Station
The Volkswagen Group had relied on the launch of the ID.3 to comply with the limits of polluting emissions in Europe. A goal that has…
View More VW Close to Exceeding Emission Limits and Getting 275 Million Fine
Volkswagen is launching its new electric family. A range that has started with the compact ID.3, which will have its extension with the SUV ID.4…
View More VW ID.5 will Arrive in 2023 with 435 Miles of Autonomy
During the launch of the ID.3, a compact (segment C) electric called to replace the veteran e-Golf, Volkswagen emphasized the importance that this model will…
View More ID.4 Will Be More Important For Volkswagen Than ID.3
Volkswagen’s executive committee decided to put off its decision on extending chief executive Herbert Diess contract extension during its December 1st meeting. Earlier this week…
View More VW CEO Herbert Diess Early Contract Extension Shot Down
The head of the Volkswagen Group Herbert Diess, discussed his plan to “catch up with Tesla” or “Mission T” in a recently released blog post. …
View More Will “Mission T” Help Volkswagen Catch Tesla?
Although it missed out on Volkswagen’s huge order of factory robots from FANUC and ABB in October, German industrial robot manufacturer Kuka will indeed be…
View More VW Places Major Equipment Order with Kuka for ID. BUZZ Production
Volkswagen plans to launch a full range of electric cars over the next five years. In addition to compact, urban and other SUVs, the family…
View More VW ID.6 Seen in China with Up to 7 Seats and 111 kWh of Battery