Of the 144,000 ID.3 electric hatchbacks that have been ordered in Europe from in the first nine months of the year, roughly 50 percent were bought by people who had never owned a Volkswagen before. “The car is an absolute hit. It appeals to customers and has shot from zero to take top positions among […]
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Volkswagen UK has just unveiled an ID.3 with a special livery that it dubs the PRID.3. The electric vehicle has been created for the Milton Keynes Pride Festival running on September 11 and has a unique, multi-colored design inspired by the camouflage pattern used by ID.3 prototypes when the hatchback was still in development. The […]
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Volkswagen, the company that created the hot hatch phenomenon over 40 years ago, is about to do it all over again in the electric age. At the Munich Motor Show, Ralf Brandstatter, the company’s CEO confirmed that the all-wheel drive ID.X concept revealed back in May will enter production as the ID.3 GTX. The twin-motor, […]
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New car registrations across Europe fell dramatically in July but sales of battery-electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids continue to grow. Data from JATO Dynamics reveals that 967,830 new cars were registered across 26 European markets in July. That was a 24 per cent decline from the 1.27 million units registered in July last year. Despite […]
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Volkswagen has launched their electric city car, the ID.3, to the Chinese market at the Chengdu Motor Show. The ID.3, which is one of the best selling EVs in Europe, is the third EV from Wolfsburg to be offered in China, following the ID.4 and ID.6. The ID.3, which was once thought to be a European-only […]
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In a surprising turn of events, the Dacia Sandero has been crowned Europe’s best-selling car for July 2021, beating the VW Golf in its own game. The Romanian budget-friendly supermini sold 20,446 units in July, proving to be quite popular with European buyers and reaching the top spot for the first time ever. In total, […]
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A Volkswagen ID.3 in Groningen, the Netherlands, was consumed by fire earlier this month as video footage posted by Meterniews shows. The incident took place on the morning of Saturday, August 14 per the outlet, and happened moments after the driver unplugged her EV from its charging cable. After pulling out the cable, she put […]
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Range anxiety is one of the biggest barriers to EV ownership, even though most modern electric cars can drive much further on a full charge than their ancestors could. But as What Car? discovered, there’s a huge disparity between between current EVs in terms of how far they can travel, how that real-world range compares […]
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Volkswagen chief executive Herbert Diess has taken to social media to share his frustration about using an Ionity charging station during a recent road trip. Diess is currently enjoying a summer holiday and was on a road trip through the Brenner Pass in Austria in an ID.3. There are four Ionity charging points along the […]
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Volkswagen announced that the owners of ID.3, ID.4, and ID.4 GTX models will gain access to their first over-the-air software update via mobile data transfer. According to VW CEO, Ralf Brandstätter, improved versions of the software with added functions will follow every twelve weeks for the ID. family. The first owners to receive an OTA update for […]
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