Volkswagen To Unveil Golf-Size All Electric Car In Paris

A milestone for Volkswagen at next month’s Paris Motor Show with the reveal of its first ‘ground-up’ all-electric vehicle.

While there are ‘mild’ electric versions of the Golf and Up in Europe, according to the German magazine Industry And Economy Week Volkswagen’s first clean-sheet all-electric vehicle will be around the same size as a Golf but offer mid-size Passat-like interior space.

The prototype to be unveiled in Paris is the precursor to a production version slated for launch as early as 2018.

It will use the new MEB chassis architecture - as seen in the Budd-e MPV concept - specifically developed for electric vehicles. At the Budd-e’s unveiling, Volkswagen said the MEB architecture maximized the packaging efficiency of electric cars (which do not require a fuel tank) to deliver compact exterior dimensions and a spacious interior.

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