Volkswagen has revealed the e-up! – its first fully electric production car.
The e-up is based on the Volkswagen up! city car, which has had its three-cylinder petrol engine replaced by an electric motor with peak power of 81bhp. Acceleration from 0-62mph takes 14 seconds, which is 0.8 seconds slower than the 74bhp petrol-powered up!.
An 18.7kWh lithium-ion battery is hidden underneath the up!’s floor, allowing it to cover just over 90 miles on a single charge. Volkswagen says the e-up! can be charged up to 80 per cent full in 30 minutes.
The e-up! gets a few bespoke styling tweaks, too, like the curved shape of the LED running lights, which is also repeated in the rear bumper. Volkswagen says the front end, sills and underbody have all been aerodynamically optimised. The interior gets light grey seats covers with contrasting blue stitching.
The e-up! will be at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September, with orders being taken after that. Volkswagen hasn’t announced prices but expect it to cost around £15,000 after the £5,000 government grant.
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e-up! There's trouble at t'mill.
Still quite expensive. Would take me a long time at 3000 miles a year to recoup the extra cost over my Toyota Yaris petrol.
Will this only be sold in Yorkshire VW dealerships
I'm sorry but... PAHAHAHAHAH
Soon to be followed by the Touraeg By Gum SE, and the Passat Trouble at 'Mill Lux. These models are identical to the previous base model, but feature a coal burning stove in the engine bay and an incomprehensible satnav!
Autoexpress expects the car to cost around £15,000 after the £5,000 government grant.
That makes it costlier than Renault Zoe which is one size bigger not to mention more stylish.
Still e-up! is an interesting proposition for city dwellers.
You are an idiot. The sat nav is a navigon system how on earth is that incomprehensible? Another one from the anti VAG brigade.... YAWN!
Renault charges £600 (!) for metallic paint - and £300 (!!) for non-metallic too.
Campaj1 was having a joke at the expense of the car's silly name. Get it - Joke! The satnav would thus give directions in a strong Yorkshire accent incomprehensible to soft southerners (like me). Again a joke.
However before any more reet daft VW "attack dogs" lacking a sense of humour have a go at me I would emphasise that silly names are not a monopoly of the VW Group. Witness Renault Wind, Vauxhall Cascada, Vauxhall Adam or Nissan Juke. There are plenty of others.
Your boring me.....
No you're boring us by being some reactionary angry guy get over yourself
Good post! Great to see someone working out the actual cost involved. (Not criticising the VW - just emphasising that the numbers have to make sense)
Lol. I bought some lego at the weekend, built a bridge and got over myself. Thanks. How easy are you to wind up?!
take a look at your first comment and then tell me who is wound up!
Not wound up at all, just reading the usual vag haters on this site. It gets boring. Surely your mum taught you if you cant say something nice don't say anything at all....
omg did you not read anything above?! I LIKE VAG cars, its just that the name of this particular one is silly, so I made a light-hearted joke about it. Don't know where you get this idea about VAG haters tbh... haven't seen any here, just some statistics and a couple of surplus digs at the name, fin! Forget my mum, your teachers at school clearly didn't tell you to check the evidence before making assumptions!
eeeeeup lad - what yorkshire man's going to stretch to £15k for a new car. By gum thats madness that is!
nothing 'chav' about an abbreviation, you just have an outmoded style of speech.
not to mention that you yourself used a colloquialism with "cheers"
Did you use your thesaurus for that word? I'm almost impressed.....
Studying English language. I'm hardly impressed by you, sadly. Feel free to stop making social assumptions based on specific lexical choices, you may get your fingers burnt x
Thanks for the kiss, I knew you liked me really. Much love.
man stfu u got burnedd
Who asked you? Don't be a keyboard warrior.
Most yorkshiremen couldn't thoil to pay that much
Or the difference between your and you're for that matter.
By gum, your a sensitive young lad!
eeeeee up lad, who asked you?
eeee up lad,what you on about lad talkin about t'lexical choices. Can yer translate for us folk up here in t'dales?
e-up! Ignore me bloody technical rubbish chuck! Its thy choices of certain words lad! ta!
well god knows noone asked you! Looks like uve just been angry all the way through this feed!
ok lad, tara fur now!