Volkswagen will certainly reveal an updated version of its ID.3 next spring, and although the small electric hatchback isn’t sold in the U.S., the planned updates might ultimately filter throughout to the associated ID.4 portable crossover.
Teaser sketches launched by the car manufacturer recently hint at a changed front fascia as well as a brand-new dashboard with a larger infomercial display (12 inches). VW also validated better top quality materials for the cabin as well as a brand-new software application backside that will certainly sustain over-the-air updates. The facility console will likewise include a revised design with a pair of cupholders, and the freight area will certainly obtain a detachable floor.
The brand-new software will certainly also support VW’s latest electronic driver-assist attributes, which will be readily available to ID.3 consumers. These include the new Travel Assist with Swarm Data, which builds on VW’s existing Travel Assist automated driving system for a single lane, by adding crowd-sourced information to enable the system to operate in even more locations. Automatic lane adjustments is additionally now feasible. There will also be an automated vehicle parking system with memory feature, VW stated.
The ID.3 is constructed at plants in the German cities of Zwickau as well as Dresden. With the arrival of the updated ID.3, manufacturing will certainly be expanded to VW’s main plant in Wolfsburg, where Volkswagen Group’s head offices lie.
Teaser for upgraded Volkswagen ID.3 due in springtime 2023 VW will certainly spend 460 million euros (roughly $ 484 million) in the Wolfsburg plant to prepare it for EV manufacturing. The plant is where VW currently develops the Golf for globally sales.
VW on Wednesday stated it will certainly also construct a small electrical crossover at the Wolfsburg plant. The crossover will certainly be based upon an upgraded version of VW Group’s MEB system found in the ID.3, ID.4, as well as multiple other VW Group products. The upgraded platform, referred to as MEB+, will feature a new usual battery cell as well as assistance charging at rates of up to 200 kw. VW claimed the MEB+ system will certainly likewise sustain greater ranges than what’s feasible with the MEB platform.
“The MEB still has substantial capacity,” Thomas Schäfer, VW’s CEO, stated in a statement. “Our passion is to take this platform to the following degree.”
VW stated the Wolfsburg plant will certainly likewise be residence eventually to the much-hyped Trinity version based upon a new, very modular EV platform called the SSP. VW formerly claimed the Trinity would certainly show up in 2026, however there are records the version encounters delays.