The Volkswagen ID. EVERY1 is an affordable EV for the masses
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Do you suspect me of a crime? Am I being detained?
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The Volkswagen Bug Zapper.
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155 mile range, well that's a local commuter car, that's it. The masses need things besides a local commuter car.
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This is why there are no plans to try to sell something like this in the US. I drive three hours each way on day-trips fairly often, and a couple times a year I drive around 1000 miles per day for longer trips. Even people who live in cities with short commutes often want to travel to places several hours away pretty regularly. Here you can drive for hours and hours and hours and not even leave the state. It's not like we can take a train either.
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Are you though?
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There's also an ID.2all that's more geared towards the masses: https://www.volkswagen.nl/modellen/id-2all
Personally this car would cover any drive I do except going back home and back (where I'd have to charge... at home here and home there... so still fine really)
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I commute 63 miles one way, every day.
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more rubber to make the ride softer
That's one of the least important contributions to ride softness.
It would make for an amazing driving experience
Going forward and stopping are the easiest parts of a vehicle's driving experience to implement. Now try getting them to corner well-- that's more challenging. And nobody needs 3-second 0-to-60 times in normal driving conditions.
Not to mention you would be saving lives in the case of an accident.
You'd be improving the odds for those inside the vehicle at the expense of other drivers, cyclists and pedestrians. The environmental impact of manufacture is also directly proportional to vehicle mass.
Anyway, too much of your analysis is based on the current poor energy density of batteries, which has good potential for improvement in the coming years. SUV-sized EVs are an entry point in the market, but regulators should be providing incentives for manufacturers to shrink them instead of staying with the present unsatisfactorily large size, which is not a positive feature, any more than it is for gasoline-powered SUVs.
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Not to mention that VW lied to its customers before with the emissions scam...
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Beetle EV
The Karmann Ghia EV conversions are stunning. Go see the most gorgeous thing VW ever made do 0-60 in 3 seconds.
So, as someone who drove three different classic beetles in the past, you know the KG is still my vote.
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Yes I understand what a concept car is. That changes nothing about my comment because it wasn't about this specific car.
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What car would somebody buy if they cared about those things? There are no choices
Because at one time there was a choice.
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And buying what instead?
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They've gone out of their way to avoid showing the hatch opened. From the pictures they DO have there, it appears the hatch opening area is borderline useless. My question is WHY?
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Why can’t they put a 600miles battery with 2 motors for awd
They do that for more expensive models.
The advantage of small batteries is higher efficiency and more range per charge hour in addition to a cheaper car.
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The problem is that the battery degrades, so it's a good idea to keep it charges to 60-80% so that it last way longer. If you have 600 miles of max range then that means you can easily have 360-480 miles for your driving. This is overkill as well right ? Wrong, if you live in a cold climate it practically gets halved so now you have 180-240 miles of driving.
Let's say it's summer though, now you want to drive 600 miles to your nearest ocean/sea and want to sightsee along the way. With a battery that big you might have to charge once and not even fully to have enough confidence driving to places where charging might be limited.
That's why smaller batteries make sense only if you use the car for daily commuting, now you need to rent or buy a proper long range gas car or ev car - which now costs you quite a bit more or adds inconvenience. With tesla the problem is almost solved, but they have problematic political views and minimalistic interiors and a max battery of 402 miles. So yeah I think it's worth it to make a car that costs 3x what VW are pushing, but is useful to everybody.
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couple times a year I drive around 1000 miles per day
You can use the savings of having a $20k city car to rent a $70k monster car a couple of times per year, and come out way ahead. You probably need more luggage space on those trips anyway.
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A lot of that isn't known until nearly the last minute. Especially any of the hard metrics like mp/kwh, range, and especially any infotainment specifics.
