Volkswagen ID.Roc trademark filed in Australia

VW is readying a battery-electric successor to the current Volkswagen T-Roc small SUV and has just lodged a trademark application with IP Australia for the telltale nameplate – ID.Roc.

Submitted last month by VW’s head office, the ID.Roc filing makes it clear that the German car-maker is planning to stick with the ‘Roc’ nomenclature – or at least keep it in the mix during the EV’s development – with ‘ID’ denoting that it will be a member of the brand’s all-electric family.

There have been conflicting reports over the past 18 months about the future of VW’s internal combustion portfolio, and when key models will go all-electric, however the T-Roc is expected to be one of the last models to make the jump.

Word is the second-generation T-Roc will be revealed in 2025 and released the following year, which suggests the small SUV will soldier on with ICE powertrains (including mild-hybrid and hybrid) and that the ID.Roc will emerge later in the model lifecycle.

The EV is likely to be developed alongside a battery-electric replacement for the current Audi Q2, which according to CarBuzz is due for release in 2027.

Both the Q2 and ID.Roc will almost certainly be underpinned by the established MEB architecture destined to underpin a plethora of mainstream VW Group EVs, including the incoming 2025 Volkswagen ID.2 and the Mk9 Volkswagen Golf due in 2026.

Count on high-performance GTX versions of the ID.Roc as being under development as well.

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