Volkswagen scored a decent fleet order for 325 e-Golfs for the British division of the Zipcar car-sharing company. Zipcar and Volkswagen already partnered in the past, as 50 Golf GTEs entered service in 2016. The new fleet of e-Golfs will be available …
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Volkswagen Uses Unique Rapid Charge For I.D. R Pikes Peak
Volkswagen Motorsport overcomes obstacles in developing a rapid-charge strategy for competing in the historic hill climb. The Broadmoor Pike’s Peak Hill Climb is a 12.4-mile, 156-turn course in Colorado. Racers start at nearly 9,400 feet above se…
VW’s Electrify America Teams With Envoy For Electric Car Sharing
Electrify America (Volkswagens’s subsidiary) proceeded forward with several new projects in the Sacramento region. The company partnered with Envoy, a community-based car sharing platform and the City of Sacramento to launch: two new car sharing …
The rapid charging system for the I.D. R Pikes Peak is a science in its own right [videos]
The paragraph in the regulations for the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is clear: Should a participant in the most famous hill climb in the world be forced to suspend their run for safety reasons—for example, should it suddenly start to hail or an…
VW Spills Specs, Releases New Video For I.D. R Pikes Peak Racer
Two electric motors provide a combined output of 670 horsepower. In 10 days from now, Volkswagen will be gunning for the fastest electric car record at Pikes Peak with this – the I.D. R Pikes Peak. Now carrying the final light gray livery as featured i…
VW & Siemens Team Up For Long-Haul Electric Trucks
Siemens, together with Volkswagen’s subsidiary Scania got the green light for a research project with heavy goods vehicles using overhead power lines on public roads in Germany. The idea is to enable zero-emissions, long-haul travel by using an o…
Volkswagen Group will pay another $1.2 billion in Germany over diesel scandal
As the fines become fewer and farther between, more executives feel the heat.
Volkswagen I.D. R Pikes Peak Racer Gets #94 – Here’s Why
Can you guess why did the company go for 94? Two weeks before the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, Volkswagen has revealed its outfit for the 12.42-mile (19.99-kilometer) track 14,110 feet (4,300 meters) above sea level. The VW I.D. R Pikes Peak wi…
Volkswagen Turns To Quantum Computing For Electric Car Batteries
Technology begets technology Whoever has the best battery wins. While that statement may be an oversimplification, since there are obviously a large number of other factors that come into play in the automobile business, it’s still a guiding trui…
Volkswagen using quantum computers to make high-performance EV batteries
For the first time, Volkswagen experts succeeded in simulating industrially relevant molecules using a quantum computer. This is especially important for the development of high-performance electric vehicle batteries, as the experts have successfully s…
