Volkswagen’s futuristic, electrical model of its iconic hippie van has now gotten its Euro NCAP ranking, and it’s good — 5 stars!
“The European take a look at organisation Euro NCAP has introduced its newest car security take a look at outcomes. With the ID. Buzz, a brand new Volkswagen mannequin has additionally been awarded a ‘excellent’ ranking and acquired the very best rating of 5 stars,” Volkswagen shares.
The ID. Buzz bought a rating of 92% total. When it comes to security help, the ID. Buzz bought a 90% in that realm.
The ID. Buzz joins its electrical sibling the ID.5 in its 5-star ranking. So, whether or not you need an electrical, twenty first century hippie van or a extra typical small SUV/crossover, Volkswagen’s bought you lined with two choices with prime security scores.
Volkswagen Main EV Charging in Europe
Other than Volkswagen’s excellent news on the protection entrance, the German automaker additionally lately highlighted its charging management in Europe. Throughout 27 European international locations, Volkswagen now has a community of 400,000 EV charging stations for its electrical automotive drivers.
Elli reaches a milestone for EV charging in Europe.
“With our model Elli, we provide the biggest ecosystem for drivers of electrical automobiles in Europe and are persevering with to press full pace forward in our work to broaden the charging community,” SVP of Charging & Power Elke Temme stated.
Observe that this Elli community isn’t an unique community of charging stations. It truly consists of stations from 800 completely different charging suppliers. Nonetheless, for an EV drivers, a station you should utilize is a station you should utilize. The variety of stations within the Elli community doubled in simply 18 months, going from about 200,000 to about 400,000. A giant current addition to the community was Fastned’s stations, and one other was Vattenfall’s.
“Fast and straightforward to make use of and, above all, obtainable all through Europe: The charging community of the Volkswagen subsidiary Elli is increasing. Within the course of, the corporate has entered into a lot of alliances and partnerships, together with ones with such power suppliers as Enel and Iberdrola, the petroleum group BP and the three way partnership IONITY. The goal of this work is kind of easy: to offer drivers of electrical automobiles with a tightly knit worldwide charging community which is definitely accessible. About 800 suppliers are at present built-in. Most lately, Elli added about 24,000 Vattenfall stations in Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden together with 1,000 high-power charging factors (HPC) operated by Fastned within the Netherlands, Germany, Nice Britain, Belgium, France and Switzerland. Just a few months earlier, the community was massively expanded in Nice Britain with the addition of 6,800 charging stations managed by BP Pulse.”
The Elli community isn’t just for Volkswagen model EV drivers, however for drivers of EVs from numerous Volkswagen Group manufacturers — SEAT, CUPRA, ŠKODA AUTO, and Volkswagen. “The charging service provided by AUDI will likely be built-in into the portfolio subsequent 12 months: Charging with Audi | Audi MediaCenter (audi-mediacenter.com)”
Elli at present employs about 250 individuals.
Going from 200,0000 Elli stations to 400,000 in the midst of 18 months, what’s going to the subsequent 18 months deliver? I’m undecided we are able to count on the identical sort of development, since a lot of the rise comes from merely including current networks/stations. We’ll see.
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