On 14 Jul 2020 at 21:43, Peter VanDerWal via EV wrote: > Pity they won't be selling them here in the USA
Yeah, nice EV, isn't it? It might even be able to get me back into VWs. :-) The range is decent, the size isn't outrageous, at first glance it looks reasonably practical, and the price is pretty good for what it is. It's also a fairly nice-looking car. But the EU requires that in 2021 VW meet a CO2 emissions fleet average of 95 grams per km. That's the equivalent of burning 4.1 liters of gasoline per 100km (57mpg). If they want to keep selling their big, high-profit SUVs in Europe, they're going to need to build and sell a lot of EVs. So they probably can't spare any for us. Besides, GM already has trouble selling Bolts, even with big incentives, and the ID.3 looks pretty similar in many ways. It's tough to imagine that VW would sell enough of those here to make it worth the cost of reworking it to comply with US FMVSS. David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = I think; therefore, I'm alone in the universe. -- Vern, "Over the Hedge" = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
