VW continues to fully trust its e-cars. As promised, new goals will be set in the coming year: The charging situation is to be improved, payments simplified and the electric VWs themselves will also receive new, practical functions.
VW continues to rely on the success of electric vehicles. Shortly after the presentation of the latest ID.5 model, the Wolfsburg-based company presented its timetable in order to ramp up electromobility even further. In addition to the further expansion of the charging infrastructure, the main focus is on new capabilities of e-cars in the foreground.
VW: Bidirectional charging for e-cars shortly before the start
The VW Group is further reaffirming its plan to rely on bidirectional charging in the future. At the point in time when the E-VWs can also feed charged electricity back into the grid, they still keep a low profile, but it will probably not take much longer: the pioneering technology is in place “At Volkswagen before the market launch” (Source: Volkswagen).
Anyone who already owns one of the ID models can be pleased: the function will also be gradually activated for vehicles that have already been delivered via over-the-air update, it said. However, she will not for all e-cars from VW made available. “All ID. Models with the 77 kWh battery will be enabled for this technology in the future, ”explains VW. ID.3, ID.4 and ID.5 can be built with the powerful battery, but it can be found in the more expensive equipment variants.
With bidirectional loading, the E-cars are becoming part of the electricity storage networksupport the switch to renewable energies. In this way, excess energy can be stored and released again when required. In the future, there will also be more emphasis on sustainability when it comes to the raw materials used.
Plug & Charge: VW e-cars will charge even more easily in 2022
Innovations are also being planned for charging stations: all vehicles of the ID. Range switched to Plug & Charge will. Instead of paying via VW’s “We Charge” charging card, the charging station and e-car automatically recognize each other when they are plugged in, and the charging process should begin within a few seconds.
The latest addition to the electric car at VW is the ID.5 (GTX):
Billing is also carried out automatically via a We Charge charging contract. To start with, Plug & Charge in the charging networks from Ionity, Aral, bp and EON be available. Tesla has been successfully demonstrating automatic charging for some time.