Volkswagen late on Tuesday offered the subsequent salvo in its EV onslaught within the type of the ID.7, a mid-size sedan that may fill in for the Passat within the U.S.
VW has solely proven a camouflaged prototype, although the automaker has additionally supplied a have a look at the inside. The prototype is because of make an look on the 2023 CES in Las Vegas, which runs Jan. 5-8, and can seem with out the camo gear within the second quarter of 2023.
Related prototypes for the ID.7 have been noticed within the wild for greater than a yr, and VW additionally previewed the design final June with the ID.Aero idea automotive. The design of the ID.7 has been toned down considerably in comparison with the ID.Aero, although it is nonetheless shaping as much as be a lovely choice on the EV market due to its coupe-like profile and typical ID styling cues.
Volkswagen ID.7
The ID.7 has an extended 116.9-inch wheelbase and is predicted to have an total size of about 197 inches. Underpinning it’s VW Group’s MEB platform designed for mainstream EVs, and the utmost vary as measured by the EPA is predicted to lie north of 300 miles.
Volkswagen ID.7
VW describes the ID.7 because the flagship of its ID household of EVs, and in step with this positioning the automaker has packed the sedan with top-shelf cabin know-how. Confirmed options embrace an augmented actuality head-up show, a 15-inch touchscreen for infotainment, and a climate-control system that may direct air at an occupant or spatially to cowl the cabin. VW has additionally included contact sliders for lots of the controls, which generally is a ache to make use of when driving, although the automaker has additionally included voice activation that may function a substitute for the contact sliders in lots of circumstances.
China would be the first marketplace for the ID.7, with gross sales to begin there within the second half of 2023. Gross sales in North America and Europe will observe shortly after, that means it’ll seemingly arrive within the U.S. as a 2024 mannequin.
Volkswagen ID.7
Whereas the ID.7 will function the non secular successor to the Passat that was dropped within the U.S. after 2022, a redesigned Passat is being developed for the remainder of the world, probably as a wagon solely.
VW has extra ID EVs on the best way, because the ID.7 is one simply 10 EVs the automaker will launch by 2026. The U.S. lastly will get the ID.Buzz minivan subsequent yr, and can in all probability additionally see a three-row SUV concerning the measurement of the present Atlas mid-sizer. A wagon model of the ID.7 can be a risk, as is a crossover concerning the measurement of the Tiguan. Elsewhere, VW plans an up to date model of its ID.3 compact hatch, a brand new ID.2 subcompact crossover, and the much-hyped Challenge Trinity technological flagship.
