Volkswagen ID.2all concept previews $40,000 EV
VW to finally bring battery-electric motoring to the masses with a Golf-sized EV coming in 2025The Volkswagen ID.3 was too big, the Volkswagen Up! EV too small. So VW hopes its incoming small electric hatch based on the Volkswagen ID.2all concept revealed overnight will be the right size to become the Golf of electric cars.
Aimed at taking Volkswagen EVs from niche to mainstream for global buyers, the Volkswagen ID.2 will begin production in 2025 and will retail from less than €25,000 ($A40,000) in its home market of Germany.
VW insists the production ID.2 will have the space of a Golf for the price of a Polo, with 450km of WLTP-measured EV range in a package that reaches 100km/h from standstill in seven seconds.
Introducing a new design language for Volkswagen, the ID.2all was a source of friction between Volkswagen Group CEO Oliver Blume and VW Group design boss Klaus Zyciora, resulting in the latter’s departure from Wolfsburg.
The ID.2all is said to be an all-new design, though plenty of Zyciora’s fingerprints remain, including the interior package that delivers between 490 and 1330 litres of luggage capacity in a five-seat layout.
Volkswagen is planning 10 new electric cars by 2026, and the ID.2 production car will be the biggest volume bet of all of them, taking over from the e-Golf as the compact, all-purpose five-door hatchback.
While Volkswagen hasn’t cited a battery capacity, it will charge at 125kW and can top up from 10 per cent to 80 per cent charge in 20 minutes. It can also be charged on an 11kW home charger.
With a 160km/h top speed, the ID.2all is 4050mm long, 1812mm wide and 1530mm high, riding on a 2600mm wheelbase (the Golf has a 2630mm wheelbase).
The German company is also working on a Volkswagen-branded car for below €20,000, known internally as the ID.1.
“We are transforming the company rapidly and fundamentally – with the clear objective of making Volkswagen a genuine ‘love brand’,” said Volkswagen brand CEO Thomas Schäfer.
“When I took over as CEO of the brand, I asked my team where they wanted to take the brand, and the answer was ‘let’s make VW shine again’ – a brand that is likeable, with a twinkle in the eye, and a brand you can touch.
“Customers buy brands, and they mainly buy brands with products that look good.
“VW is changing and we are changing VW, quickly and fundamentally. We are on our way to becoming a loved brand again, from the heart and for the people.”
Okay, then.
With 166kW of power from its single electric motor, the ID.2all has all the hallmarks of an electric Golf – including front-wheel drive.
“The ID. 2all will be the first MEB vehicle with front-wheel drive,” Volkswagen brand board member for development Kai Grünitz admitted.
“We are exploiting the great flexibility offered by our modular electric drive [MEB] platform and will set new standards in terms of technology and everyday usability with the MEB Entry platform.”
Schäfer insisted at least 80 per cent of its European sales would be EVs by 2027, on its way to its goal of full zero emissions by 2030.
The ID.2all includes Volkswagen’s latest version of Travel Assist, with partly automated Level 2 driver assistance, including self-parking.
It also has Matrix LED headlights, a panoramic sunroof, a 3D LED tail-light cluster and a horizontal LED strip between them.
Its touch-screen is 12.9 inches, with a new climate control interface with illuminated buttons that signals the end of the despised slider unit in the ID.3.
It has a small thumbwheel in the centre console to adjust the entertainment volume, while there are two inductive charging stations for smartphones, which are magnetically locked in position.
The rest of the vehicle functions are controlled by a menu in the centre console, which can adjust the look of the digital instruments.
The steering wheel has multifunction controls, with a thumbwheel on each side, while the driver has a 10.9-inch instrument cluster.
The cargo area can be stretched to 2.2 metres by folding down the 60/40-split rear seats, and there is another 50-litre storage box beneath the rear seats.
Volkswagen ID.2all design
Volkswagen’s new design boss Andreas Mindt insists his teams have been working to transfer VW iconography from its classical cars into the EV range, especially on the ID.2all.
“The ID. 2all is therefore also an homage to the Beetle, Golf and Polo,” Mindt said.
Mindt already has credits as the director of design at Bentley, and was the head of Audi’s exterior design. He has also designed the seventh-generation Golf and the first Tiguan.
The ID.2all has been his first project as head of Volkswagen Group design.
“The most important value for Volkswagen design is stability,” Mindt said. “A second core element of the brand is likeability.
“Stability and likeability – we have to achieve these two values in every respect.
“We also want to create excitement in our customers.”
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