VW ID.1 2025: Price, consumption, picture, technical data
The Volkswagen Group is expected to launch a purely electric MEB-based supermini within the next three years. It will be called the VW ID.1 and will have the same dimensions as the Volkswagen Polo , although the advantages of electric cars include free space, which will of course be more.
Volkswagen ID.1
VW ID.1 , Volkswagen expected to be the cheapest electric vehicle in the VW ID. family will likely be a small hatchback, similar to the Cupra UrbanRebel , but with a customized design. The expected base price is around € 20,000 .
MEB short platform
Volkswagen launched the ID. brand when it began deliveries of the ID.3, the first pure electric car in the range, in Germany in . Based on the MEB platform, the ID.3 is available in three battery capacities – 45 kWh, 58 kWh and 77 kWh – with a range (WLTP) of 320 km, 420 km and 550 km respectively. Volkswagen says the ID.3 will be cheaper to buy and run than comparable combustion engine models, and this principle could be transferred to the ID.1 & ID.2.
Volkswagen has confirmed that a family of MEB vehicles for the entry-level segments is part of the “first wave” of its electric cars, which began with the ID.3 . The VW ID.1 & ID.2 will ride on a new and simplified MEB platform. Image source: Volkswagen According to Brandstatter, it will be 40% cheaper to build electric cars on the MEB platform than on a conventional chassis. The Volkswagen Group is developing a version of the MEB for the A and B segment models, called MEB for short. In addition to making the MEB platform compatible with smaller models, the company could make them less sophisticated so they are not over-specified and made unnecessarily expensive. The unified cell format and LFP chemistry will help to further reduce costs.
Production and release date
The VW ID.1 will most likely roll out of one of Volkswagen Group’s Spanish plants. There’s a good chance that Seat’s Martorell (Barcelona, Spain) plant will manufacture it, at least until Volkswagen’s Pamplona (Navarra, Spain) plant is ready to start producing electric vehicles. Volkswagen is not expected to unveil the budget electric hatchback before .
