I really hope their EVs don't turn out to be internal combustion with fudged testing capabilities. ;)
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It was just charging infrastructure and reasonable range designs that were needed all along?! Who could've seen that coming.
Noooooooo! Demand for electric vehicles is falling! Companies are cutting back on production! Gas and ooooooiiiiilllllllll!!!!
Maybe if Iโm very very good theyโll bring the electric GTI to the states.
Electric what now?
Didn't know what I was missing.
Grand Touring Injection, but now it injects electricity!
"Gains in South America and Europe more than compensated for the expected declines in China and North America," said Marco Schubert, member of the extended VW Group Management Board.
In Germany, Volkswagen is a market leader with almost every second new electric car registered in Germany in the first half of the year from the company.
Can you turn off the phoning home yet?
Better, you can replace it with the open source OVMS
From what I'm seeing only the vw eUP has any traction in the ovms forums. Are there other places discussing and implementing ovms on cars I.e. the ID. Buzz?
Just like with phones, all you need to do is remove the battery
European EVs doing well in EU. Headlines so far this year has been surge of Chinese EVs in EU, but EU doing better.
The prices are just off the walls these days though. I want a california but will not spend 85k on it. Same with the ID7 tourer.
I want an electric micro van so bad ๐ but I hate the look of the the buzz. And I've lived out of a VW before.
Just put me more forward in the cockpit plz
You can't sit more forward because of crash safety
I can too.
This is the van I had a reserve down on before they went bust: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgAghyLo4os
I want visibility. I want to be able to see whats happening in front of me in a vehicle. I don't want a dash sitting on my lap.
That little front windows is adorable. It's really cool how much innovation EVs brought but its yet to be widely available :(
So I lived out of something like this for a bit:
and what I love about that era of micro vans is the visibility. I feel like cannoo reall'got' what it was that made those vans so special, and it's that when you are travelling, you can see everything and it feels like you are really on tour.
I was really bummed they went out of business.
aahaha corona phase flashbacks =D Everyone knew it was bubbles, right?
i wouldn't confuse Nikola with canoo.
Canoo actually got to having a vehicle, and it was at a very reasonable price point and was a very compelling vehicle.
I think the real issue they hit was that they didn't look like a 100:1 return in investment, and for predatory capitol, thats all they'll fund. I think they found themselves needing funds exactly when inflation was going nuts.
I mean at the end of the day these are car manufacturers. it's a shit ton of work to design and engineer and the produce a car. And they can't be that expensive or people just don't buy them. So the margins are kinda crap.
You looked at the Berlingo? A lot cheaper....
I just and an eGolf with a decent range.
We test droveithe buzz. Very nice van, but I can't see paying that price.
I want an electric micro van so bad ๐ but I hate the look of the the buzz. And I've lived out of a VW before.
Then get an eqv / eVito? Or an e-spacetourer / e-traveller?
I think the buzz looks kinda cool, but the range is terrible from what I recall.
If its anything like my ID4, 400km in 70km or less braking traffic, and like 250km on the highway. Even less if it is raining.
I can't imagine taking the buzz on a road trip if it is like that...
There are kits and companies that convert old VW T4 and such into electric vehicles.
I wonder how much of these sales would have gone to tesla if it didn't have a well know ceo voicing his dodgy political views. I'm not saying Tesla and Volkswagen are similar quality for a similar price, but in the end they are competing for the same customers; it's obvious Tesla's decline in sales in because of Musk since it's basically still the same cars on offer, but how much of these lost sales ended up at Volkswagen is what I'd like to know.