Electrek

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Fans of the VW Golf can rejoice as new reports suggest the brand will be carried into the EV era. Although earlier information suggested the current VW Golf could be the last, according to Volkswagen’s CEO of passenger cars, the iconic brand will live on, likely alongside its ID series.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 23, 2024

VW has announced a midlife refresh of the current Golf Mk VIII lineup, and the hybrid GTE is getting some seriously attractive updates to the electric portion of the powertrain. As part of the 2025 update, the Golf GTE’s battery is growing to 19.7 And it’s still not coming to America. kWh, nearly doubling the old car’s 10.6

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Teslarati

APRIL 3, 2023

Volkswagen (VW) has revealed that it will not develop a new generation of gas-powered Golf hatchbacks. Despite the challenges faced by numerous European automakers over the past two years, including a massive invasion of Ukraine and an equally substantial computer chip shortage, VW remains dedicated to electrifying its lineup.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 25, 2019

The VW Golf relaunches with plug-in hybrids and diesels part of the European offerings. Bollinger prices its tough electric SUV and pickup. The Audi A6 plug-in hybrid isn’t headed Stateside. And we rounded up eight automakers that have big plans for China and perhaps the U.S. and beyond. Are they headed for boom or bust?

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Next year will mark five decades since Volkswagen presented its first Golf, showing up with front-wheel drive and its engine ahead of the driver unlike the loaded-diaper Beetle. There is a wealth of Golf history and, more importantly, entertaining snaps of the model from different eras along with more than a few creative print ads.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 31, 2024

Development of Volkswagen’s new fully electric Golf is underway, but what does that mean for the ID.3? VW’s chief tech officer, Kai Grunitz, says there could be some overlap between the two EVs. Volkswagen’s electric Golf may overlap with the ID.3 Volkswagen’s electric Golf may overlap with the ID.3 Volkswagen ID.3

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Electrek

JANUARY 16, 2024

Volkswagen has been trying to develop solid-state EV batteries with US startup QuantumScape for years, pouring millions into the startup, with the dream that VW Golf EVs would zip along with long ranges and charge in minutes, but that hasn’t happened – not yet anyway.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Volkswagen COO Thomas Schafer has stated that the Golf nameplate isn’t going anywhere, but it won’t be tied to a gas engine in the future. 3 would replace the Golf, Mr. While many were worried that the already all-electric Volkswagen ID.3 3 would replace the Golf, Mr. Schafer quickly dispelled that myth as well.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 3, 2013

Forbidden fruit no longer: Volkswagen''s hottest diesel Golf, the GTD, looks like it''s finally coming to the U.S. As Automotive News reports (via Autoblog), the German automaker sees the GTD as an important "halo product" for the rest of its diesel range.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 20, 2014

Today on Green CarReports: We drive VW''s first electric car to be sold in the U.S., run down what you need to know if you want to buy an early Honda Insight, and dig deeper into GM''s new and more fuel-efficient engines. Last week, we drove the Volkswagen e-Golf for two hours in Berlin--and now we''ve written.'

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 2, 2023

Volkswagen stopped selling the standard Golf here a few years back, leaving only the GTI and Golf R to carry the hatchback torch in the United States. & The eighth-generation Golf just arrived in 2022, so it’s not expected to take a dive anytime soon. The Golf GTI and Golf R also got anniversary models in 2023.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 17, 2024

Its a long-awaited EV alternative to the popular Golf GTI, and has been on the cards since the electric hatchback was revealed in 2019. VW ID 3 GTX powertrain, battery range The ID 3 GTX gets Volkswagen’s latest APP550 electric motor on the rear axle, which develops 285hp – up from 204hp of the standard car. The ID 3 features a 12.3-inch

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 17, 2023

News: 2025 Volkswagen ID7 Midsize Electric Sedan Flagship for the VW EV Juggernaut Volkswagen is making another step in its transition to an all-electric line-up with the introduction of its midsize sedan, the 2025 ID7, this week at the New York International Auto Show. The ID7 continues the company’s numerical progression.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 16, 2023

Now, Volkswagen is changing its gearbox offerings to comply with new Euro 7 emissions regulations.& & Autocar reported that VW would cut the manual transmission offerings from its catalog, including the high-performance Golf GTI. That said, the automaker has noted on several occasions that the U.S.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Though the car is losing its manual transmission option next year, it will make the transition to electrification, and we’re now learning that VW may expand the GTI name to other electric models.& Mindt noted that VW’s approach makes construction much cheaper, allowing it to keep its goal of a 25,000 USD starting price.&

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 23, 2024

Volkswagen is giving the Golf a makeover for its 50th birthday, adding an illuminated badge along with some novel LED headlight and taillamps. VW doesn’t like to make aggressive changes to the iconic hatchback, so the alterations made on the Mk8 Golf are fairly subtle. & The inside changes are a little less inspiring.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 19, 2019

It has been a busy year for Euro NCAP, the new car safety performance assessment programme, and it has finished 2019 off with a bang (or a crash) by awarding the Ford Puma, MG ZS EV, MG HS, Nissan Juke, VW Golf and Audi Q8 five stars.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 5, 2024

VW and other European automakers were preparing to end production of small ICE cars by the end of the decade. VW Passenger Cars CEO Thomas Shaefer said the decision is to reduce costs. Shaefer told auto motor and sport only 80% of the maximum forecast sales volume for new models will be planned for production.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The e-Golf sunsets, and VW bridges it to the past and the future with a Microbus sendoff. The Polestar 2 electric car is gearing up for production and coming next year—although its future in the U.S. still depends on politics. Nissan’s sweetening the charging options for Leaf customers.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Today we''ve got news of talks between BMW and Tesla Motors, details on the Volkswagen Golf SportWagen hydrogen fuel-cell concept, and the latest rumblings from car-dealer groups over criticism of haggling. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 11, 2024

Volkswagen had planned to build its ID3 BEV hatchback at the Wolfsburg plant but says that low demand will keep its production at the automaker’s EV-only plant in Zwickau, in eastern Germany, reports German news outlet Handelsblatt. Every euro that we do not have to spend counts,” VW’s production chief Christian Vollmer said.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Finally, the Audi 80 -based Dasher showed up here as a 1974 model, but it wasn't until the following model year that the first true water-cooled VW went on sale in North America. This yard also has an early Peugeot 505 Turbodiesel , an Oldsmobile Toronado Troféo and even an example of the long-forgotten VW Jetta Hybrid. Absolutely not.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Some key specs have changed slightly for the e-Golf this year. A long-awaited super-efficiency fuel-cell car is soon arriving—in the UK. It pays to invest in charging readiness up front. And Fisker’s smaller electric SUV gets a few more details. This and more, today at Green Car Reports.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 6, 2022

” The graphic then showed an outline of the all-electric VW ID.BUZZ and will be officially unveiled in about two months. The ID.BUZZ embodies this like hardly any other model,” VW brand CEO Ralf Brandstätter said. 2022 is coming soon: the year of the new #VWIDBuzz ! Volkswagen News (@volkswagen) December 23, 2021.

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Electrek

AUGUST 3, 2021

So she drives a “third-hand” diesel Volkswagen Golf instead. more… The post The UK prime minister’s climate spokesperson has range anxiety, so she drives a diesel VW appeared first on Electrek.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The VW ID.2 2 will use the German automaker’s upgraded MEB-Plus platform, an enhanced version of VW’s modular electric drive matrix featured in the ID.Family lineup. 2 might be the electric equivalent of the German automaker’s popular compact five-seater, the VW Golf. 2 electric vehicle.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 25, 2014

Today''s news includes a little bit of everything. On the practical side, we''ve got pricing details for the 2015 Volkswagen e-Golf electric car; on the more subjective side, we assess the impact of Elon Musk''s personal touch on Tesla''s success.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

“Our industry faces complex challenges as it undergoes a transformation that is being conducted under difficult business conditions,” said VW CEO Thomas Schäfer. “It Volkswagen plans to produce a second electric vehicle in its Wolfsburg plant, which will be manufactured beside the VW ID.3. performance program.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 20, 2023

Faced with dwindling demand for its EVs, VW is set for a refresh and restyling of its future EVs. 2 All is an excellent example of VW’s need to shift. The very-much-Golf-looking EV looks like a normal hatchback and doesn’t scream, “I’M AN ELECTRIC CAR!” & [Image: VW] Become a& TTAC& insider.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Before you head off to the polls today, we''ve got a wide variety of stories on hybrids that cost less to own than gasoline cars, CCS fast-charging implementation, and the fifth and final nominee for our 2015 Best Car To Buy award, the 2015 Volkswagen Golf range. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 14, 2024

1 will offer “affordable electric mobility for everyone,” VW brand leader Thomas Shafer said Thursday. 1 and the vehicle is planned for 2027,” Shafer confirmed during VW’s annual press conference Thursday. VW is also in talks with Renault about building a small mass-market electric car. VW also launched an updated ID.4

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Baua Electric

APRIL 4, 2024

2024 Polestar 2 (Source: Polestar) Polestar’s leader added, “As nice as it is to have a [Volkswagen] ‘Golf’ category of car, it’s very limiting in terms of innovative power, because you’re always back in the box of what the ‘Golf’ should be.” FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 7, 2014

Let''s get the bad news out the way first: The Volkswagen Golf GTE won''t be coming to the U.S. For whatever reason, VW has decided that American customers don''t want a 200-horsepower plug-in hybrid Golf, with stylistic touches cribbed from the sporty GTI.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

The Munich thought is in accordance with the ID2all thought unveiled by means of VW in March. All variations of the VW little electrical automobile shall be constructed Spain. The manufacturing ID2 can have 3 siblings – a VW logo little SUV, a Cupra sporty hatchback and a Skoda little SUV. It is now becoming reality.”

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 18, 2014

There are plenty of good reasons of course, but every so often one slips through the net--such as Volkswagen''s sporty Golf GTD. Fans of diesel vehicles have long looked at the European market and wondered why the U.S. doesn''t get all the best diesel models sold overseas.

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Teslarati

APRIL 12, 2023

However, it wasn’t all good news for Tesla. Germany’s most sold vehicle overall was the VW T-Roc, followed by the VW Golf and Tiguan. If you have news tips, email us at tips@teslarati.com ! In March, Volkswagen secured all of the top three vehicle sales slots. What do you think of the article?

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Teslarati

MARCH 9, 2023

VW teased it would share its vision of the future and much more during next week’s livestream at 6:20 pm CET. VW’s hashtag for the livestream teases the affordable nature of the ID.2 2 hatchback is reportedly equivalent to the VW Golf, its compact five-seater. The starting price of the VW ID.2 2 EV hatchback.

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