Photo: Kleber Silva on Behance
Remember when the up! was introduced in 2011? Volkswagen’s smallest car is joined at the hip with the Fox and Lupo, and despite its somewhat high price tag and low equipment levels, the A-segment hatchback is a cracking little city dweller.
However, this type of vehicle isn’t as popular on the Old Continent as it used to be during the time of the Lupo. The peeps in Wolfsburg tried to turn things around with the e-up! option, but still, the on-paper specifications leave much to be desired.
For the 2020 model year, the e-up! got a little better thanks to 13.6 more kWh than before, translating to 260 kilometers (162 miles) of range on a full charge. For a city car, that’s more than you can ask for. Its diminutive size is also worthy of taking into consideration if you’re living in a notoriously congested city like London or Paris.
Still, don’t you think that Volkswagen could do better in terms of exterior styling? The up! and e-up! don’t shy away from showing their age, and this gets us to the more modern roster of Volkswagen cars and crossovers. In the vision of Kleber Silva, the electric hatchback would look better with an ID.3 front and T-Cross rear.
The pixel artist’s rendering brings a breath of fresh air to the boring design of the A-segment model, but Volkswagen doesn’t intend to follow suit for a particularly simple reason. The German automaker intends to focus on the MEB platform and ID. series of models thanks to more modern battery and e-motor technologies as well as greater profit margins. After all, a compact car is more profitable for a volume-oriented automaker than a vehicle with the footprint of the e-up!
Going forward, the e-up! won't remain in production as the company’s most affordable EV too long. It and the up! as well as their counterparts from Skoda and SEAT are expected to be phased out in 2022 or 2023 at the latest. In their place, a smaller version of the MEB platform will be utilized to create three all-new models that are said to be shorter but also roomier than the Volkswagen T-Cross utility vehicle.
For the 2020 model year, the e-up! got a little better thanks to 13.6 more kWh than before, translating to 260 kilometers (162 miles) of range on a full charge. For a city car, that’s more than you can ask for. Its diminutive size is also worthy of taking into consideration if you’re living in a notoriously congested city like London or Paris.
Still, don’t you think that Volkswagen could do better in terms of exterior styling? The up! and e-up! don’t shy away from showing their age, and this gets us to the more modern roster of Volkswagen cars and crossovers. In the vision of Kleber Silva, the electric hatchback would look better with an ID.3 front and T-Cross rear.
The pixel artist’s rendering brings a breath of fresh air to the boring design of the A-segment model, but Volkswagen doesn’t intend to follow suit for a particularly simple reason. The German automaker intends to focus on the MEB platform and ID. series of models thanks to more modern battery and e-motor technologies as well as greater profit margins. After all, a compact car is more profitable for a volume-oriented automaker than a vehicle with the footprint of the e-up!
Going forward, the e-up! won't remain in production as the company’s most affordable EV too long. It and the up! as well as their counterparts from Skoda and SEAT are expected to be phased out in 2022 or 2023 at the latest. In their place, a smaller version of the MEB platform will be utilized to create three all-new models that are said to be shorter but also roomier than the Volkswagen T-Cross utility vehicle.
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