As the traditional car company with the largest electric transformation efforts, Volkswagen is the first of all joint venture brands to promote mass production and sales of pure electric platform models on a large scale, and has also achieved results in the context of the rising market share of new energy.
In the first quarter of this year, the Volkswagen Group (including Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, Skoda, etc.) sold a total of 99,100 pure electric vehicles worldwide, of which the Chinese market increased by more than 4 times year-on-year, reaching 28,800 vehicles.
However, in the environment of the rapid upgrading and iteration of the three electric technology, volkswagen's most popular MEB pure electric platform due to the early launch time, the technical basis is also somewhat outdated, the existing model based on the MEB platform, only support the maximum 125kW charging power, and not all models can reach 125kW charging power, endurance according to the version, can provide 400/ 500 / 550km three choices.
Considering the maximum battery pack capacity and fast charging speed currently supported by the existing MEB platform, it is indeed not amazing, and the public naturally has a mirror in this situation, and the latest news shows that an upgrade plan for the MEB platform is underway.
According to volkswagen news, in 2022, the MEB platform will further improve the mileage, charging power and acceleration performance on the existing basis.
After the upgrade, the power can be increased by about 15%, which is about 700km (WLTP) of cruising range, the fast charging power is increased to a maximum of 200kW, and the acceleration performance is shortened to 5.5 seconds at the earliest.
The first car built using the upgraded MEB platform may be the ID positioned by Volkswagen as a high-end model of MEB. Space VIZZION concept car, follow-up including ID.3, ID.4 and other models will naturally follow up.