VW NZ working to get ID electrics here

Volkswagen New Zealand says it’s working very closely with VW’s German factory to get the ID.3 and ID.4 EVs here.

Its website suggests the ID.4 SUV should be available from 2023 while a date for the ID.3 has yet to be confirmed.

VW has also recently revealed the ID.4 GTX, teased the Multivan PHEV, and plans to introduce the ID.Buzz Kombi van look-alike to Europe in 2022 and the US the following year, also working on the ID.5, ID.Cargo and many more

The ID.4 won the 2021 World Car of the Year Award and, with the ID.3, is being introduced to Europe, China and the US – being produced mainly at the Zickau-Mosel plant in Germany then Emden from 2022.

VW aims to deliver about 150,000 ID.4s worldwide in the first year.

It’s also producing the ID.3 hatchback in three main battery sizes – 45kWh (330km range), 58kWh (420km) and 77Wh (550km).

A first edition has sold out in Europe.

VW has its own battery production facility in Braunschweig and intends producing up to 500,000 modular electric drive matrix batteries (MEB) annually.

It’s also planning battery production at sites in Foshan and Anting in China, Chattanooga in the US and Mlada Boleslav in the Czech Republic.

VW intends selling 26 million EVs by 2029.