Posted on 08/22/2019 11:52:17 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
The self-parking ID.3 shows how big-volume car makers are unleashing a new generation of technologically advanced vehicles that will allow them to wrestle back leadership of their industry from upstarts like Tesla Inc.
But in order for the industry’s huge bet on electrification to pay off, car makers will have to sell millions of the vehicles to mass-market consumers, not just an elite group of wealthy, environmentally conscious consumers.
Ultimately, it expects to build one million electric cars with this technology by 2025 and a total of 15 million before upgrading the vehicle’s core technology.
Bumper to bumper, the ID.3 is about as big as the Golf. But without an internal combustion engine hogging space up front, the interior is spacious, offering as much space inside the car as the Golf’s upscale cousin the Passat.
The ID.3 won’t be sold in the U.S. Instead, Volkswagen plans to begin production of the ID “Crozz”, an electric SUV using the same technology, at its plant in Chattanooga, Tenn.
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Why would I consider an electric vehicle even for a nanosecond?
The new model is also meant as Volkswagen’s exhibit A in its argument that it has left its dirty diesel past behind it, having learned its lessons from the 2015 diesel emissions cheating scandal that tarnished its image and cost the company around $30 billion in fines, penalties and consumer compensation.
And bubbling up from the mud in Germany is Dieselgate jr.! More cheating on the reprogrammed VW diesels!!!
While Nissan is facing possible bankruptcy for sinking too much money into the Leaf.
I think you misunderstand. “Green” cars don’t run on electricity; they run on leftist hopes and wishes, and there seems to be an abundance of that.
Back in the ‘73 oil embargo, I knew a guy that converted a VW Beetle.
Pulled the engine, and made an adapter for an electric fork truck motor.
Removed the back seat and added lead-acid batteries!!!
Drove it for a few years.
Make it part of the Golf line and call it the Golf Cart.
Electric cars are an option, not the enemy. They are probably gonna be the dominant car someday. My daughter has a Volt and my son-in-law has a Prius. They are not what we used to call Hippies. They just have a long drive to work and save on gas. It’s all good here in Hawaii because we have solar panels too.
Another ugly little car.
Are they buying Tesla?
LOL. A city car not a “road trip” car. Augments but doesn’t replace the ICE.
Damn Arabs, always causing problems
To sell cars in states like CA you have to sell 20% electric into the state. They also subsidize them heavily like they do solar.
The Airhead Boxer has nothing to do with Ned Ludd and much to do with Glenn Curtis of Curtis Aviation who said “Any part that you leave out can’t break.” I have 158,000 miles on mine. Fork seals and bearings front and rear, voltage regulator, a couple of carb rebuilds, clutch and throttle cables, front master cylinder rebuild, and brake pads. How many on yours?
I have a diesel that has a range of 810 miles on the Interstate...
I worked many years with a couple of diesel heads that made me a believer.
Our son commutes ONE HUNDRED MILES each way, had a VW TDI until repossessed by VW.
Coming to a state near you?
Eight Audi, Porsche, VW models banned in South Korea for emissions cheats
https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/audi-porsche-vw-emissions-south-korea/
Volkswagen’s Dieselgate software fix has another cheat device: German court
https://www.teslarati.com/volkswagen-dieselgate-software-fix-cheat-device/
VW has all but killed the diesel.
I had the hots for a DIESEL AMAROK PICKUP!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Amarok
Gone but not forgotten.
“Amazing to think that Hitler’s VW now owns:
Bugatti
Lamborghini
Bentley
Porsche
Audi”
And Ducati.
The apartment was only 150 sq ft ....
and he banned smoking ...
if vehicles are charged during off-peak hours
We have this vision of Germans as the ultimate ‘modern day people’ — efficient, clinical, bureaucratic, passionless, arrogant. That is what they show the world and themselves...
It’s partially true, but... A barbarian, living in a land of plenty, out in his forests worshiping Wotan with sacrifices of his enemies is in the heart of every German. Mysticism and environmentalism were both really big in Germany before WW1 and der fuhrer made those types of mystical and ethnic crap (blood and soil) appeals a huge part of Nazi propaganda. They still feel that pull of the forest and the call of the Valkyries.
Germans are completely rational...until they are completely bat crap irrational, but the irrational is always there influencing policy and strategic thinking.
I am a huge VW guy, Ferdinand Porsche was a genius, but I have trepidation here.
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