New Battery Powered VW e-Up! and e-Golf to debut at Frankfurt 2013

German auto major Volkswagen is all set to present its two new electric cars at the Frankfurt Motor Show- The e-up! and e-Golf, which are series production models. Both zero-emissions cars offer unlimited everyday practicality, each has four doors, and they are attractively equipped.

Standard features: automatic climate control with parking heater and ventilation, radio-navigation system, windscreen heating, LED daytime running lights and, in the e-Golf, the Volkswagen brand’s first use of LED headlights. The two newcomers are also leaders in energy efficiency: the e-up! consumes just 11.7 kWh of electricity per 100 km – this makes it the new world champion in efficiency. The e-Golf, positioned two classes higher, attains an excellent value of 12.7 kWh. Given an electricity price of €0.258 per kWh (Germany, as of 31st July 2013), driving 100 km with the e-up! costs just €3.02, and with the e-Golf it is around €3.30.

The zero-emission cars from Volkswagen are manufactured with the same high-volume production systems as their counterparts with combustion engines. The e-Golf, which is being presented in a world premiere in Frankfurt, is driven by an 114bhp / 115 PS electric motor. The motor produces its maximum drive torque of 270Nm as soon as it starts off. The front-wheel drive e-Golf reaches 100 kmph in 10.4 seconds. On a motorway, the speed of the five-seat front-wheel drive car is electronically limited to 140kmph. e-up! data. Also making its debut in a world premiere at the IAA is the four-seat e-up!. Its electric motor produces 80bhp and 82 PS. This motor transmits 210Nm of torque to the driven front axle from a standstill. It completes the sprint to 100 kmph in 12.4 seconds. The car has a top speed of 130 kmph.

Driving ranges tailored for commuters. The e-up! can drive 160 km on one battery charge (18.7 kWh), while the e-Golf with its larger battery (24.2 kWh) has a range of 190 km. In both models, two very efficient driving modes (“Eco”, “Eco+”) and four just as easy to activate regenerative braking modes (“D1”, “D2”, “D3” and “B”) help to extend maximum ranges. And they are driving ranges that make sense. In Germany, for example, studies by the Federal Ministry for Transport, Building and Urban Development found that around 80 per cent of all car drivers in Germany drive fewer than 50 km daily. Quick charging. The fastest CCS charging stations (direct current) shorten the time needed to charge the battery of an e-up! or an e-Golf to 80 per cent capacity to around just half an hour.

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