this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2024
3 points (100.0% liked)
Electric Vehicles
3221 readers
213 users here now
A community for the sharing of links, news, and discussion related to Electric Vehicles.
Rules
- No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, casteism, speciesism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
- Be respectful, especially when disagreeing. Everyone should feel welcome here.
- No self-promotion
- No irrelevant content. All posts must be relevant and related to plug-in electric vehicles — BEVs or PHEVs.
- No trolling
- Policy, not politics. Submissions and comments about effective policymaking are allowed and encouraged in the community, however conversations and submissions about parties, politicians, and those devolving into general tribalism will be removed.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Poor software, poor pricing, still are dragging their feet in bringing their big named products into the EV world. EVs are sidelined to the ID badge. At no time have I even thought of Volkswagen as an EV that I would want to buy.
This might vary between markets but at least here in Germany, their pricing is very competitive. You can currently get a base ID3 for 29,760€. There are very few if any similar sized EVs for that price. Software is okay, not the sleekest you can get for sure, but it does its job. They're the second most successful EV brand after Tesla here. I assume if you've never thought of them as something you'd want to buy, you've also never driven one?
I have never driven one. Also ID3 is not available here so only I D 4 which is not very competitive here in the USA.
Need the battery plant in North America to go online before we get proper VW EVs on this side of the pond.