Volkswagen ID.7 Sedan Premieres – Car Analysis

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Scheduled for the second quarter of 2023, Volkswagen’s next global electric vehicle will be offered in China, Europe, and North America. - Photo: Volkswagen

Scheduled for the second quarter of 2023, Volkswagen’s subsequent international electrical car shall be supplied in China, Europe, and North America.


Volkswagen will showcase its first totally electrical sedan primarily based on the modular electrical drive matrix (MEB) On the Client Electronics Present (CES) in Las Vegas between January 5-8, 2023. It’s clad in camouflage, which makes use of distinctive know-how and multi-layered paintwork to create gentle results on components of the car. This interactive characteristic symbolizes the following step within the digitalization of the long run flagship mannequin of Volkswagen’s EV household.

The ID. AERO idea car that was initially offered in China already supplied a preview of the brand new mannequin, in a position to obtain an estimated vary of as much as 700 kilometers for European fashions primarily based on a simulated WLTP cycle.

“With the brand new ID.7, we’re extending our electrical mannequin vary into the higher segments,” stated Thomas Schäfer, CEO of Volkswagen Passenger Vehicles. “The ID.7 is considered one of 10 new electrical fashions that we’re planning to launch by 2026. Our aim? To ship appropriate merchandise for our clients in each single phase.”

With its newest MEB mannequin, customary options of the ID.7 embody:

  • A brand new show idea.
  • An augmented actuality head-up show.
  • A 38-centimeter (15-inch) display.
  • Digitally managed “sensible air vents”.
  • Illuminated contact sliders.

At CES, VW will present the ID.7 as a camouflaged sedan that includes a digital design with distinctive paintwork, that lights up the automobile interactively. About 40 layers of paint have been utilized, a few of that are conductive whereas others have insulating properties. A complete of twenty-two areas of the car may be managed individually and are electrified under the highest layer of paint (electroluminescence) in order that they gentle up. If all that is linked to a sound system, the rhythm is visualized by illumination of particular person areas.

After the ID.3, ID.4, ID.5 and ID.66 (Chinese language-market solely) fashions and the brand new ID. Buzz, the ID.7 would be the sixth mannequin within the firm’s EV household and is Volkswagen’s second international automobile to be primarily based on the MEB after the ID.4. It’s deliberate to launch the electrical sedan within the three major markets of China, Europe, and North America. The ID.7 for the European market shall be produced on the Volkswagen Emden plant, making it the second MEB car produced there, after the ID.4.

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