CONCEPT MODELS: All-electric VW Kombi could be your new friend
VOLKSWAGEN opened the door to its beyond-diesel world of all-electric cars at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.An all-electric powertrain wrapped in a modern interpretation of the hippy favourite Kombi seems like a no-brainer as VW fires its first serious product bullet to haul it out of its Dieselgate morass.Due in production in 2017, the Budd-e will have more than 500km of zero-emission running and its architecture forms the basis of the company’s Modular Electric Drive toolbox (MEB), making it far more significant than just another concept car. The MEB architecture will slot beneath the VW Group’s first full generation of pure battery-electric cars, including the production version of Porsche’s beautiful Mission E concept car and Audi’s e-tron quattro concept.The company already has production electric cars, including the Golf e, though they are squeezed into existing internal combustion production architectures rather than having their own dedicated layouts that ...
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