Volkswagen's rad-looking electric car is intended to make you forget about Dieselgate The car will become the first Volkswagen built off the carmaker’s custom-built Modularer Elektrifizierungsbaukasten, aka Modular Electric Drive kit. It is due to go on sale in 2020, with a range of up to 373 miles — or about 158 miles further than Tesla says its soon-to-be-release Model 3 can travel on a single charge. Volkswagen says the sleek silver-and-blue car is meant to harken back to the iconic Beetle and Golf, but most consumers and car enthusiasts will likely make a different association: this is Volkswagen’s high-stakes effort to put the emissions cheating scandal behind it, once and for all. If Volkswagen can push forward the EV revolution in this way, it could be better than paying fines for Dieselgate.... See http://ift.tt/2dn9fY4
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