Reports have surfaced that Volkswagen will be using the Paris Motor Show this October for a launch that could make Tesla a little nervous. According to EV site Electrek, VW CEO Hebert Diess confirmed that the automaker will be unveiling an EV with a range of up to 600 km. That number is based on the more forgiving Euro cycle test, but it should still mean a near-500 km range using Canadian test methods.
Diess added that the new EV will be about the size of a Golf, but will have cargo space closer to that of the Passat. That means we'll have to wait and see if the new car will be a hatch with a high floor or a sedan with a trunk, but a hatch is more likely. Styling could be an evolution of the microbus-inspired BUDD-e concept.
This is all part of Volkswagen's previously announced plan to unveil 30 new electric models by 2025 and reach production of up to three million all-electric cars per year by that point.
The car unveiled in Paris is expected to be close to the production car, either a prototype or a thinly disguised concept, with the production car bowing in 2018 or 2019.
