Protean & FAW-VW China to Develop RWD In-Wheel Motor System

Protean Electric has announces a partnership with FAW-VOLKSWAGEN (China) to develop an all new electric propulsion system that will include ...

VW XL1 hits the streets of New York with $145,000 price tag

New Yorkers got a glimpse of the future this week, as the Volkswagen XL1 arrived in the City as part of a month-long American tour that too...

VW e-Up priced from £19,250 [VIDEO]

Volkswagen has opened order books in the UK for the new all-electric VW e-Up, pricing the model from £19,250. That figure includes a £5000 g...

VW Shows 214 mpg Twin Up! XL1 Based Hybrid Concept @ Tokyo

Volkswagen introduced the XL1, the world's most fuel-efficient production car, to the streets in 2013. This plug-in diesel hybrid for tw...

BMW Joins VW in Backing Germany’s 1 Million Electric-Car Goal

BMW backed the German government’s goal to have 1 million electric cars by 2020 on the country’s roads, a week after Volkswagen said the ta...

VW Says Germany’s 1 Million Electric-Car Goal Achievable

Volkswagen says the German government’s goal to have 1 million electric cars on the country’s roads by 2020 can be achieved if partly batter...

Volkswagen announce 500 km AWD Electric Phaeton Tesla clone

In the wake of the ongoing diesel-emissions scandal, Volkswagen has announced that an all-electric Volkswagen Phaeton sedan is in the produc...

Volkswagen e-Golf vs. BMW i3 REx [VIDEO]

Polish blogger Marek Wieruszewski reviews the Volkswagen e-Golf and the BMW i3 REx. The Volkswagen e-Golf has a claimed range of up to 200 k...

VW Develops Self-Parking Self-Charging Electric Vehicle [VIDEO]

Volkswagen have launched an EU research project called 'V-Charge' to look into the near future of automated parking. Six national an...

VW 'close to battery breakthrough' next-gen e-Golf to get 300km range

Volkswagen is closing in on a new battery technology that will bring “a quantum leap for the electric car”, according to the firm’s boss Mar...

Bosch to get VW contract for EV batteries

German automotive supplier Bosch is set to receive a major contract to develop electric car batteries for Volkswagen, a person familiar with...

Volkswagen premiere the Golf GTE Sport: Plug-in hybrid sports car

VW presented the Golf GTE Sport in a world premiere at the legendary GTI event at Lake Wörthersee on 14 May 2015, Volkswagen is catapulting ...

VW Looking to Reduce Battery Costs by 66% with Singe Cell Design

Volkswagen Group may shift to a single lithium ion battery cell design for all of its electrified vehicles. Heinz-Jakob Neusser, VW's bo...

Volkswagen E-Bugster concept car officially unveiled [VIDEO]

The Beetle! - it is the successor to an automotive icon. The new car is considered the sportiest Beetle ever. Now Volkswagen is showing, in ...

Volkswagen Launches E-Golf Test Fleet [VIDEO]

Volkswagen of America announced that it will begin a pilot scheme to test 20 prototype E-Golf Battery Electric Vehicles over a nine-month pe...

Electric vehicles account for over 20% of Norway's new-car sales

Plug-in electric car sales in Norway continue at just above 20% (21.03%) market share with 2,235 registrations in February 2015. Battery-onl...

Volkswagen XL1 plug-in hybrid prototype spied in action [VIDEO]

The long-awaited 1-liter diesel-electric plug-in hybrid car has finally been confirmed for production and here are the first shots of a pro...

VW to Decide on New 700 km Range Battery Technology by July

Volkswagen plans to decide in the first half of this year whether new battery technology under development at U.S. startup QuantumScape Corp...

Volkswagen Golf EV to be named the E-Golf [VIDEO]

New details are starting to emerge about Volkswagen's Golf EV. According to Car & Driver, the model will likely be called the E-Golf...

VW Cross Coupe TDI Plug-In Hybrid Concept @ Geneva

Research - regardless of the area of research - always aims to identify solutions that point the way to the future. In December 2011, it was...