After accelerating its push into electrification, Volkswagen Group has unlocked more technology for its ID. scope as well as investing in further green energy options and a second life the battery the infrastructure. “Our goal is to ensure that tram capable of becoming the customer’s primary vehicle – without any compromises. That’s why we’re building a complete charging ecosystem, with residential charging solutions and rapidly expanding the fast charging infrastructure needed for mobile charging, as well as consulting. authoritative, comprehensive pricing and fleet solutions tailored for corporate customers. “
The automaker indicates all the IDs. models with a 77 kWh battery will be able to charge bidirectionally – receiving energy from a source and charging a separate energy storage system such as a wall box plugged into a home energy system. That possibility will come through an OTA update. VW will sell special bidirectional DC wall boxes for home use. Another software revision and OTA update will increase the charging capacity of the ID 77 kWh. batteries from 125 kW to 135 Kw for the standard model and up to 150 kW for the GTX ID.5 racier. We say the increase in charging time will decrease by up to nine minutes when charging from 5% to 80%. There will also be a new Battery Care Mode that will charge the battery at 80%; VW didn’t say if this will be an owner-selected mode or a permanent setting on the car.
Speaking of owner settings, the UX designers tweaked the pay menu layout to “be structured in a way that’s more informative and clear.” In addition, the navigation’s Online Route Calculation will do the math to figure out the shortest way to the destination when calculating the charging time and the desired fare at the destination. This can create a route that isn’t the shortest distance, but will ultimately cut down on route time by including faster charging stations.
VW doesn’t provide a schedule for all of this more specifically “in the future”. When the upgrades arrive, European owners will get them first, but we expect them to cross the Atlantic after that.
Across Europe, the automaker plans to give We Charge-contracted electric vehicle owners access to an additional 18,000 fast-charging stations across 270,000 public stations in VW’s partner network. An additional 35,000 retail charging points is expected. Plug & Charge aims to eliminate the need for a physical card, with secure communication between the charging cord and the vehicle charging port validating administrative details as soon as the cord is plugged in.
VW also wants more green power, with plans to build 20 new wind and solar farms across Europe by 2025, producing up to 7 terawatt-hours of electricity, as well as management solutions. manage and store energy to keep green energy from going to waste. The company says that in Germany in 2019, 6,500 gigawatt hours of renewable energy were wasted, enough to power 2.7 million Electric Car in a year.
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