The VW ID.5 is currently the largest car in its pure electric range – at least until the VW ID.7 launches later this year. While VW launched electric versions of the Golf and Up! It has now chosen to keep its electric line separate, with all models sporting the ID. prefix.
It’s an approach that most car manufacturers have used, with only BMW really bucking the trend, and certainly has positives and negatives. The positive is that these electric cars can be designed specifically for the electric platform – in this case, VW’s modular electric drive matrix (MEB) which is used across all ID. models. It also allows the body to be made more aerodynamic to reduce that drag. The downside is that drivers don’t have loyalty to these new models as they might have electric versions of ICE cars.
