On 23 Mar 2021 at 8:04, Willie via EV wrote: > I had not previously considered VW to be a real contender against Tesla > in the EV market. Before their "Power Day" announcement, I would not > have considered a buying a VW. Now, I am reconsidering.
Here in the US we trail Europe quite a bit for the sheer number of choices in EVs, formats, styles, and so on. I'm sure that has to do with the fact that the mainstream automakers there have to meet fleet CO2 emissions standards. They have to sell EVs aggressively if they want to sell their high-margin ICEV bloat-utes. Also, eventually some nations will be banning ICEV sales almost entirely, so they have to gear up. I'm not a huge fan of VW, having owned a few in my time. But the ID3 looks interesting. Regrettably they won't be offering it in the US any time soon, probably never. However they're putting the larger and less efficient ID4 on sale here any day now, if it isn't already available. EPA range will be 250mi. After the US tax credit the ID4 base price will be $32.5k and in some states even less. At that price I expect that it will be a strong contender for folks who like small SUVs. (Mark, towing capacity is 2200lb for the RWD and 2700lb for the AWD.) Whether it will have V2G here I can't say, nor can I guess how Tesla might respond. David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common: they don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views. This can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that need altering. -- Doctor Who, "The Face of Evil" = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
