It’s hard to tell with the only few cropped angles released by the German automaker, but it looks like a compact auto.
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According to VW Group CEO Matthias Müller, the production vehicle which follows the concept is scheduled for release in 2019 and will reach between 250 and 300 miles on a single charge.
The EV will have a distinctive design to differentiate it from VW’s non-electric cars.
A production version of this concept will be the first vehicle to use the new MEB or modular electric toolkit, and will enter production in either 2018 or 2019. The Paris Motor Show gets underway in the last week of September.
There is little information available at this point, although VW insists this one-of-a-kind concept signals the brand’s entry into a new era, and will prove as revolutionary as the Beetle was seven decades ago.
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Only a few teaser images of the concept auto have been released so far, but there are some subtle styling details from the Golf, which is a likely starting point for Volkswagen in terms of size. That 248 figure is likely what we can expect from smaller vehicles, while 372 will only be achieved by bigger cars such as full-size sedans and crossovers capable of carrying a larger battery pack. The company plans to introduce more than 30 all-electric vehicles over the next 10 years with a goal of selling two to three million of these EVs in 2025. European sales of both models slumped in the first half, with the e-Golf dropping 38 percent to 3,799 and the e-Up by 19 percent to 1,343 according to figures from data analysts JATO Dynamics.
