Volkswagen awaits a 2023 loaded with launches. Among them, the one that could be the top of the range of its current ID electric line stands out. Check it out below.
When volkswagen presented its ID.Vizzion Concept to the world at the 2018 Geneva Motor Show, in some way it was already warning its proposals for the next five years. That futuristic design represented with its revelation the ideal of the German electric sedan, something that for production we will begin to see not before 2026 with the Trinity Project.
Since then, the German giant began its journey hand in hand with its range ID identified with the SEM chassisthe modular platform that it uses for models such as ID.3, ID.4 and ID.Buzz and which has been confirmed will give life to the expected model that Volkswagen will launch in 2023. To do this, the manufacturer released the latest track in June, a concept car much closer to the series unit.
The Aero ID It is the prelude concept of what is to come in 2023, a sedan with 22-inch wheels, almost five meters long and more than three meters of wheelbase that will arrive, in the words of Stephan Wollenstein during its world premiere, “with flowing, streamlined lines that characterize its elegant exterior design.”
During the World Premiere it was also confirmed that, based on the ID.Aero, the long-awaited production EV sedan would have the well-known 77 kWh battery -with optional lower capacities of 45 and 58 kWh- to reach 620 km of autonomy and will have a drag coefficient of 0.23. These attributes put this mid-size sedan to compete within the D segment with models that are also global, such as the Tesla Model 3of more than 630 km with a single charge and identical coefficient.
All roads lead to China. Not only because of the fact that the presentation of the ID. Aero was to host the Beijing Hall postponed by covid in April 2022. As reported by the aforementioned CEO of the Volkswagen Group China, in the Asian country the sedan is the second most popular body style. The first deliveries, then, will take place there during the second half of 2023.
Today, in China the sedans are stronger in terms of demand than in Europe and that would be another of the reasons why Volkswagen prioritizes the Asian market to launch the serial production of the Aero in two versions there. For the European market, meanwhile, the plant in the German city of Emden was confirmed for its manufacture.
Immediately upon its disclosure, the ID. Aero Concept was baptized as the one hundred percent electric version of the Passat, the firm’s combustion sedan. Now it only remains to know what name the marketing model will bear. Being that it would be the top of the range, will it arrive on the market as Volkswagen ID.7?