13 Jan 2022 | Revealed: The Most Popular Volkswagen EVs in 2021

Episode 1340,   Jan 13, 2022, 03:48 PM

Today’s big EV stories:
• Volkswagen doubles deliveries of all-electric vehicles in 2021
• Volkswagen Group battery-electric vehicles doubled in 2021
• Facelifted Audi E-Tron Could Be Renamed The Q8 E-Tron
• Porsche Spending $113 Million to Buy Out of Project Artemis
• Rivian files trademark for electric bikes
• Here is Tesla's CCS2 Charge Port on a Model X in Taiwan
• Tesla is getting a new batch of Giga Press deliveries in Gigafactory Texas
• DMV 'revisiting' its approach to regulating Tesla's public self-driving test
• Teen hacker finds bug that lets him control 25+ Teslas remotely
• Startup Says Its Solar Upgrade for Teslas Adds 60 Miles in Range per Day
• Rimac Nevera Puts Ionity Ultra Fast Charger To The Test: 333 kW
• Zeekr is getting ready for EU entry
• Lucid Motors plans to build EV factory in Saudi
• Pricing and specs revealed for Mercedes’ longer-range eVito
• Switch to EVs will cost Treasury £5bn a year in lost fuel duty by 2028

Show #1340

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VOLKSWAGEN DOUBLES DELIVERIES OF ALL-ELECTRIC VEHICLES IN 2021

- More than 369,000 electric vehicles (BEVs and PHEVs) delivered worldwide in 2021

- One in four vehicles delivered by Volkswagen in Germany is a BEV/PHEV

- Demand remains high: order backlog in Europe at an all-time high including 95,000 orders for all-electric IDs

- Last year, the company delivered more electric vehicles worldwide than ever before, handing over more than 369,000 electric cars (+73 percent versus 2020), including approximately 106,000 PHEVs (+33 percent) and 263,000 all-electric vehicles (+97 percent) to customers. Volkswagen thus doubled its BEV deliveries year-on-year.

- The proportion of purely battery-powered electric vehicles (BEVs) and hybrid vehicles nearly doubled to 7.5 percent of total deliveries (2020: 4 percent). In Europa, these vehicles now account for 19.3 percent of Volkswagen’s deliveries (2020: 12.6 percent). Volkswagen recorded a significant increase in deliveries of electric vehicles particularly in the United States, China and Germany. In the company’s home market, one in four Volkswagen vehicles was a plug-in vehicle.

- A total of 77,100 BEVs (+437 percent) were delivered in China, including more than 70,000 from the ID. family, making Volkswagen one of the five biggest BEV providers in China.

- 17,000 BEVs were sold in the United States

- The ID.4 was the most frequently delivered of the 263,000 BEVs with 119,650 units sold, followed by the ID.3 (around 76,000), the e-up! (approximately 41,500) and just under 18,000 units of the ID.6, which Volkswagen offers exclusively in the Chinese market


VOLKSWAGEN GROUP BATTERY-ELECTRIC VEHICLES DOUBLED IN 2021

- 452,900 battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) handed over to cus-tomers (+96 percent vs. 2020), Group clearly the BEV market leader in Europe and num-ber two in the USA, BEV volume in China up more than fourfold at 92,700 units

- These now account for 5.1 percent of total deliveries, up from 2.5 percent in the previous year. The Group is the European market leader for battery-electric vehicles by a large margin and achieved the second-largest share of the key US market with about 7.5 percent.

- Sales of plug-in hybrids worldwide also rose significantly to 309,500 units

- The Group’s top-selling battery-electric models in 2021 were (in units):
– Volkswagen ID.4 119,600
– Volkswagen ID.3 75,500
– Audi e-tron (incl. Sportback) 49,200
– ŠKODA Enyaq iV 44,700
– Volkswagen e-up! 41,400
– Porsche Taycan (incl. Turismo) 41,300


FACELIFTED AUDI E-TRON COULD BE RENAMED THE Q8 E-TRON

- Spy photographers have snapped the facelifted Audi E-Tron on multiple occasions, but the model could adopt a new name when it is introduced later this year.

- According to Automobilwoche, the updated crossover will be known as the Q8 E-Tron. While the move remains unconfirmed, it makes a lot of sense as the E-Tron moniker has been something of an oddity as there’s no number associated with it to tell customers its positioning.

- it appears Audi decided to bring forward the introduction of the Q8 E-Tron moniker from 2026 to 2022. This also suggests the facelifted model will stick around for approximately four years, before the all-new Q8 E-Tron is introduced.


PORSCHE SPENDING $113 MILLION TO BUY OUT OF PROJECT ARTEMIS

- Audi made big headlines awhile back, with its Project Artemis group of semi-autonomous cars. Part of that Project Artemis were cars like the Sky Sphere, a stunning open-top GT car, and the Grand Sphere, a luxurious four-door with a lounge-like cabin. All Artemis-based models will push autonomy to the forefront of their design objectives.

- Porsche — despite being part of the VW Group and a usual partner with Audi in EVs — doesn’t want any part of that. In fact, it’s so against the idea of making heavily autonomous vehicles that it’s actually paying its parent company to not be a part of Project Artemis.

- According to this new report from Automotive News, Porsche is going to pay Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles 100 million euros ($113 million) to buy itself out of Project Artemis.

- Instead, Porsche is going to build its own new flagship electric performance car, currently internally known as “K1”, which will be built on the PPE (Premium Platform Electric) platform.


RIVIAN FILES TRADEMARK FOR ELECTRIC BIKES

- Electric vehicle maker Rivian filed a new trademark for bicycles and electric bikes, as well as their corresponding structural parts. The move might signal that Rivian is considering getting on the e-bike demand train and diversifying its portfolio with a product that is cheaper to produce at scale than electric pickup trucks and in line with its targeted “adventure” seeking demographic.

- Last year, Porsche launched two new e-bikes that were designed with the spirit of the Taycan Cross Turismo. BMW has also released plans to produce several e-bikes and other micromobility vehicles lately, as well, like its all-electric CE 04 scooter.


HERE IS TESLA'S CCS2 CHARGE PORT ON A MODEL X IN TAIWAN

- After seeing Tesla’s new Model S with matrix LED headlights and revised taillight, we now have our very first look at the CCS2 charge port on a Model X refresh in Taiwan. We should see the CCS2 port on the Model S refresh, soon.

- DDCAR shared some images on Facebook tonight (via @EndlessPlaid) and one of them is the new CCS2 charge port on the Model X.

- The new charging door opens up at an angle, looking like one of the Falcon Wing doors on the Model X. As you can see, gone is the LED ring, and instead we have a lit-up Tesla logo as seen on a Model 3 and Model Y.


TESLA IS GETTING A NEW BATCH OF GIGA PRESS DELIVERIES IN GIGAFACTORY TEXAS

- Recent drone flyovers at the Gigafactory Texas site have revealed that Tesla is currently receiving what appears to be a new batch of Giga Press parts. If the new shipments are for the Model Y’s 6,000-ton die-casting machines, it would suggest that Giga Texas would soon have four of the house-sized contraptions.

- With the arrival of what appears to be the fourth 6,000-ton Model Y Giga Press, all eyes are now on the Giga Texas complex for the first signs of IDRA’s 8,000-ton Giga Press. The 8,000 ton Giga Press would be used for the Cybertruck’s underbody, and it would truly be one of the largest of its kind in the market.


DMV 'REVISITING' ITS APPROACH TO REGULATING TESLA'S PUBLIC SELF-DRIVING TEST

TEEN HACKER FINDS BUG THAT LETS HIM CONTROL 25+ TESLAS REMOTELY


STARTUP SAYS ITS SOLAR UPGRADE FOR TESLAS ADDS 60 MILES IN RANGE PER DAY


RIMAC NEVERA PUTS IONITY ULTRA FAST CHARGER TO THE TEST: 333 KW


ZEEKR IS GETTING READY FOR EU ENTRY


LUCID MOTORS PLANS TO BUILD EV FACTORY IN SAUDI


PRICING AND SPECS REVEALED FOR MERCEDES’ LONGER-RANGE EVITO
 

SWITCH TO EVS WILL COST TREASURY £5BN A YEAR IN LOST FUEL DUTY BY 2028


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