The VW ID.7 isn’t quite on the market yet, but Volkswagen is already putting it in the magic potion, so to speak. The well-behaved electric family sedan gets a power boost that, on the one hand, pushes the drive to 558 hp, but on the other hand, it’s pretty thick, especially on the outside.
ID.X is what the Wolfsburg-based company calls the show car that they are presenting at the ID. meeting in Locarno on the Swiss side of Lake Maggiore. What they have done with the comfortable glider is probably more of a performance show than a vision of the future. The exterior of the fully electric sedan has a variety of sporty features – both the front splitter and the rear diffuser are made of carbon. The developers widened the track by 80 millimeters and lowered the sports chassis with particularly firm springs by 60 millimeters. The vehicle sits on 20-inch sports alloy wheels with central locking and 265 racing tires. At the rear, a carbon wing provides downforce, with tinted taillights underneath. In the interior, the occupants sit on carbon shell seats. Red accents are intended to add a sporty flair to the interior. The dual-motor drive delivers 411 kW/558 hp and has a boost function. In the ID.X Performance show car, Volkswagen supplements the permanently excited synchronous motor on the rear axle with an additional asynchronous motor on the front axle to create an all-wheel drive. The advantages of this type of drive are its short-term overload capability and its particularly low drag losses. This type of engine is therefore ideal for briefly providing more power in a boost mode. The drive torque is controlled by a driving dynamics manager, which also manages the operation of the rear axle differential lock in the ID.X Performance. The function is controlled via a separate display with a 17-centimeter screen diagonal in the center console. The dual-motor drive draws its energy from the drive battery, which can provide high continuous power output and, with up to 200 kW charging power, short recharging times. Future prospects? Not all the carbon stuff, the drive – why not?
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