The all-electric Volkswagen e-up! goes on sale on today, Monday 2 December priced at £19,250 (including £5,000 Government grant or £24,250 on the road). Customers will be able to order their e-up! from one of 24 Volkswagen EV specialist retailers across the UK, with the first deliveries expected at the end of January. However, priced […]
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The Volkswagen Group is the world’s largest private sector R&D investor. That is one of the key findings of the European Commission’s annual ‘Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard’ based on a sample of 2,000 international companies from various sectors of industry taken in 2012. With research and development costs of €9.5 billion (€7.2 billion in 2011),
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The Los Angeles Auto Show confirmed that it will host 22 world debuts, making for a total of 56 vehicle debuts overall, to be unveiled in front of a global audience, November 19, 20 and 21, 2013. November 19 will focus specifically on technology announcements held in the Connected Car Expo area of the Los Angeles Convention
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Volkswagen Group (UK) Limited has signed a partnership deal with green energy supplier, Ecotricity, to provide a 100 per cent green energy offer to all customers purchasing an electric-powered vehicle from one of the Group brands. The announcement comes shortly after the Volkswagen Group’s Chairman, Prof. Dr. Martin Winterkorn, announced on the eve of the
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At long last, Volkswagen have finally got around to showing off their XL1 hybrid eco friendly car/spaceship in the USA, to an appropriately interested audience, the Society of Environmental Journalists. The Volkswagen XL1 is currently the most fuel-efficient and aerodynamic production car in the world, offering an estimated European combined fuel consumption of 261 mpg
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With the close of the 2013 IAA Frankfurt Motor Show yesterday, 22nd September, we take a look at the highlights from an electric/hybrid perspective. From the outset, the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show looked destined to be focused on electric cars, with the likes of Renault already having a range of four electric cars and with
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The Volkswagen Group has set its sights on global market leadership in electric mobility. With Renault-Nissan currently leading the way in the field of electric mobility, Volkswagen are starting a battle that can only be good for the consumer. With both Renault and Nissan electric models already on sale, including the top selling Nissan Leaf,
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At this year’s International Motor Show in Frankfurt, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles is presenting a further idea on the theme of ‘urban commercial mobility’: an electrically powered city delivery van called the ‘e-load up!’. It has four doors, four wheels and despite very small outer dimensions a whole host of space inside. A cargo management system
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In a double premiere at the International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt am Main (10th to 22nd September) Volkswagen will be unveiling two new and extremely efficient electric cars: the e-up! and the e-Golf. The German carmaker is thus transferring two full-production bestsellers into the era of electric mobility. Both zero-emission cars are perfect for
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Challenges to individual mobility are on the rise. Founded in its sense of responsibility for the safety of its customers and for all other traffic participants, Volkswagen has set the goal of exploiting all potentials that contribute towards significantly reducing traffic fatalities as well as the sheer number of accidents. All of these activities are
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