Featured E-Golf is the Shizzy - I test drove one

The VW dealer by me has a charger, but they went out of business twice in the last five years.

 

125 miles and $32K? In a couple of years that will bring a laugh by most. If $32K is still too much right now, even a Tesla Model 3 is currently less than 40 thousand (inclusive of the $3750 credit) for double those miles, and they can deliver that in one week. VW doesn't have much street cred with real BEV's yet, but they sure have promised a lot. We'll see. The Kona, if you can ever get one, is viable, and well designed for less than 40K also.

 

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The e-Golf is a BEV conversion like the Focus electric. I'll wait to see how VW handles their I.D. line of BEVs before passing judgement.

 

Don’t hold your breath unless a VW diesel is driving by.

Bob Wilson

 

I’m happy to pass judgement on vdub now: fail

And again five years from now

 

Until I saw the details on their new BEV platform, I held the same judgement.
As of this moment, Tesla and VW are the only car companies with a BEV dedicated platform.

 

And Tesla is the only one making them in quantity

 

If I purchased a vdub bev, I would want the dealer to have an array of charging stations, since that’s where most owners spend their time

 

With the last two VWs, I thought the dealer was going to give me my own parking space.

 

Saw that. Horrible.

When I was shopping for my Prius Prime, a local dealer was adding $10,000 to the prices. Just because they never wanted to sell any.

 

Markup Adjustment would be more like it.

 

Even if VW lives up to their promise, I expect Tesla to still out produce them in the beginning, because of their battery supply advantage.

VW has multiple models planned using this platform in just the next three years. So we can pass judgement soon. Now even if they do keep up the promise, we still might not see many of these models in the US, because of our gas prices and dealerships.

 

The VW group has Audi, Porsche and VW (at least) trying to produce EVs. Now which would you allocate a limited supply of batteries to? Gee, you'd do it like Tesla?

 

you can only buy what's available, time will tell. color me skeptical

 

But it looks like you got the customer care package for free!

Mike

 

Right. Free. And at that dealership it is worth exactly that. I really hate car dealers* big time.


* = 99.3% of them

 

Rivian is doing exactly that. Optional (expensive) add-on Battery pack in the front of the bed.