Volkswagen ID.1 electric car to launch in 2027 with $AU33k price
02/08/2025 05:00 PM
Volkswagen will launch its smallest dedicated electric vehicle in 2027 with the ID.1, a spiritual successor to the 2000s Lupo and 2010s Up micro hatches.
The Volkswagen ID.1 electric hatch will launch in 2027 starting from around 20,000 euros ($AU33,000), the brand has confirmed.
A concept vehicle previewing the dedicated Volkswagen electric city car – shown in a teaser video alongside the 2000s Volkswagen Lupo and 2010s Volkswagen Up micro hatches – will be unveiled in March, ahead of the world premiere of the production ID.1 in 2027.
It will be built in “Europe for Europe”, Volkswagen brand chief executive officer Thomas Schäfer said at an employee meeting at its Wolfsburg, Germany factory – though it has not been confirmed exactly where the ID.1 will be manufactured.
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“An affordable, high-quality, and profitable electric Volkswagen from Europe for Europe – that’s the Champions League of automotive engineering,” Schäfer said.
Volkswagen Group works council chairman Daniela Cavallo said the ID.1 will be a “Volkswagen in the genuine sense of the term”, meaning ‘people’s car’ in German.
The ID.1 will follow the larger Volkswagen ID.2 electric hatch, which is due to be unveiled later this year ahead of its launch in 2026 “at a base price of less than €25,000” ($AU41,000) after it was previewed by the ID.2all and ID. GTI concept cars in 2023.
The Polo-sized ID.2 will be built on the front-wheel-drive MEB Entry architecture – a lower-cost, modified version of the rear- and all-wheel-drive MEB platform – which will also be used for future electric city SUVs from Volkswagen, Skoda and Cupra, all starting from under €25,000 ($AU41,000).
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The ID.1 is also expected to be underpinned by MEB Entry, with the $AU33,000 model first previewed by the ID.Life concept car in 2021 – ahead of a new concept to be revealed next month, previewing its production look.
Volkswagen has confirmed a “high-volume electric T-Roc” small SUV will be built at its Wolfsburg, Germany plant at the end of the decade, along with the next-generation electric Golf.
The electric Golf will be underpinned by the forthcoming Scalable Systems Platform (SSP) set to be used across the automotive group, with the electric T-Roc also likely to use this dedicated electric-car architecture.
Future electric versions of the Golf and T-Roc are expected to be sold alongside combustion-engined versions for some time, with a second-generation T-Roc imminent – while the Mk8 Golf, launched in 2020, could continue well into the next decade.
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Production of the current internal-combustion Volkswagen Golf will move from Germany to Mexico – marking the first time in its history that petrol and diesel-engined versions of the Golf have not been built in Germany in some capacity.
“The Wolfsburg plant has a clear future ahead. By relocating Golf production to Mexico, we are creating space for modern technologies,” Schäfer added. “New production processes will be introduced in Hall 54.”
“Our goal is to build the next-generation electric Golf on the new SSP platform there, along with the high-volume electric T-Roc. This will establish Wolfsburg as the capital of our new all-electric compact class.”
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