In light of the still-widening diesel emissions scandal, it’s no surprise that Volkswagen came to the Los Angeles Auto Show promoting an electric car. The German car company brought a fleet of the sporty e-Golf battery electric vehicles to the show, eagerly throwing the keys to anyone willing to take a test drive. The car
The Volkswagen Group will invest an additional 100 million Euros (£70 million) in alternative drive technologies in 2016. Group CEO Matthias Müller announced the plans today (Friday 20th November) at the company’s headquarters in Wolfsburg. The move comes as the VW Group is planning on limiting its spending on capital expenditure to 12 billion Euros,
The Volkswagen diesel-emission cheating scandal has caused executive heads to roll, cars to be yanked off sale, and regulators to pore over real-world emission data with a laser-like focus. It has made the future of the VW Group as the world’s largest carmaker seem far more perilous than it did just one month ago. This
Volkswagen’s new electric hybrid Golf is as green as they come, but can VW ever clean up its ruined reputation? After the scandals in sport, food and banking (doping, horse meat, Libor and the rest), only a fool would have bet against the motor industry not cheating the system, too. But no one would have
At last some data to confirm what most EV owners already suspected When fleets compare electric vehicle (EV) costs with diesel, most of the emphasis is put on the P11d price and fuel. However, there are also significant differences in service and maintenance costs. Put simply, servicing and maintenance of a fully-electric vehicle is estimated
The author doesn’t seem to get the difference between a hybrid and a plug-in hybrid, but otherwise it’s not a bad review Until recently, hybrid cars were pretty sedate affairs. They were either for celebrities to be seen in, or they were the car your Uber driver arrived in. Now that’s changing, with the latest
If anyone needs proof that the world is slowly changing, look no further than the major car manufacturers. These lumbering dinosaurs are being forced, kicking and screaming, into the eco driven future to the extent that they’re even converting their major sellers into green machines. The latest example is this Volkswagen Passat GTE, a plugin
A pretty positive review overall The Volkswagen Passat GTE is the latest in a burgeoning number of ultra-low-emission mid-size plug-in petrol-electric hybrids to be launched in recent times. To be sold in the UK in both saloon and, as driven here, estate bodystyles, the Passat GTE shares various elements of its high-tech driveline with the
The long-awaited launch of the PHEV version of a very popular car Volkswagen announced the official launch of its second plug-in hybrid model after the Golf GTE – the Passat GTE (available in a longer Variant version too). Sales in first few countries already began (in Germany from €44,250), while the rollout in Europe will
An audio-heavy video of the e-Golf to give the experience of driving it – it’s different! What Winding Road does well in its video reviews is to capture what it feels and sounds like while sitting in the driver’s seat of the car being reviewed. These videos showcase the Volkswagen e-Golf in Winding Road style.
