At Volkswagen, electricity does not really ignite passions. Electric vehicle sales for the brand and the group as a whole have slowed significantly in recent months, leading to some changes at the pipeline level.

However, Volkswagen is one of the manufacturers offering the widest range of electric vehicles while it waits for the ID.2, which will arrive in 2025 or even 2026, according to the latest information. But will it really be called ID.2? Some believe that Volkswagen could already revise its range by “converting” the ID.2 into an electric Polo, with “Polo” being a much more resonant and resonant name than the ID model. The same would be the case with ID.3, which, let’s recall, also had a difficult start.

The future Volkswagen Golf will be electric

The upcoming Golf, the ninth generation to be exact, will be electric, and it will mark the return of the German compact car with an electron-powered powerplant. We will remind you that the seventh generation Golf received an electric version with a capacity of 136 hp. and a power reserve of about 250 km.
these last months it has been confirmed that the future Golf will be electric and that it will be built on the new SSP (Scalable Systems Platform). Our colleagues at Top Gear recently sat down with Kai Grunitz, the company’s head of technical development, and asked him what fate awaits the ID.3 when the new generation Golf hits the market. His answer leaves no room for doubt: “There is not enough space to have two or three different models for one customer. We have started work on a fully electric Golf. We have concrete ideas about what it will look like, but we’ll see how the market develops. »

Goodbye range ID?

However, the arrival of the electric Golf probably does not immediately mean the end of the ID.3. In fact, Kai Grünitz added that it would overlap between the two modelsindicating that Volkswagen will offer these two models in the catalog for an unspecified period.
The name “Golf” is “heart of the brand”, as noted by Kai Grunitz. It is also Volkswagen’s best-selling model with more than 37 million units produced since 1974. In general, the current Volkswagen range will continue to exist.

The German manufacturer has already confirmed that the “GTI” and “R” badges will be retained even for the electric models.

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