Volkswagen ID2 confirmed for future Australian launch

Volkswagen Australia has confirmed that this might possibly occasionally bring the extra budget-pleasant ID2 minute electrical car to native shores, nonetheless it’s aloof unknown precisely when this will likely perchance well perchance happen.

In a product presentation with native media, Volkswagen’s budget EV became once stated to be deliberate for a “beyond 2024” open. A manufacturing mannequin is anticipated around 2026.

The ID2 might possibly perchance well perchance in some unspecified time in the future change into the replacement for the Golf or Polo combustion devices when it launches.

The pint-sized electrical will apply tiring the ID4 and ID5 electrical SUVs that are due in Australia in June/July 2024.

What we all know to this level about the upcoming ID2

Gradually often called the ID2all, the minute electrical metropolis theory that broke duvet in March 2023, with Volkswagen announcing the mannequin would sail on a MEB Entry platform, designed for more affordable cars.

Volkswagen has centered a brand as low as 25,000 euros, or roughly AUD$40,000, which can perchance well perchance invent the ID2 a stable competitor for Chinese EVs such because the BYD Dolphin, MG4 and the GWM Ora.

The Volkswagen Community’s most cost-effective EV radiant now in Australia is the MEB-primarily based completely completely Cupra Born, which is priced from $59,990 sooner than on-boulevard costs.

Volkswagen has confirmed that the ID2all theory makes employ of a single electrical motor to assemble 166kW and is speculated to non-public a unfold of up to 450km (WLTP).

The ID2 can be front-wheel power, in need to rear-wheel power as is the case with a host of MEB platform cars.