VW’s all-electric I.D. Vizzion coming ‘by 2022’ with 400 miles of range

The latest addition to Volkswagen’s I.D. lineup of futuristic concept cars won’t just be some far-flung futuristic design piece meant to poke at what a fully-autonomous car should look like. Today at the Geneva Motor Show, the company announced that it also plans to release a production version of the I.D. Vizzion, too. The all-electric Vizzion will hit the road “by 2022 at the latest,” VW says, and unlike the concept version that was originally teased last month, it will come with a steering wheel and pedals.

VW still claims that, like the concept, the production car will be able to reach over 400 miles on a single charge thanks to a battery pack that, at 111kWh, is bigger than anything Tesla currently offers. A 75kW motor will power the front wheels, while a 150kW motor will power the rear, which should give this all-wheel-drive sedan about 300 horsepower.

The exterior of the I.D. Vizzion is reminiscent of the low-riding Lucid Air EV, though it is distinguished by some very VW curves in the body work. It’s a much more exciting design language than the stuffy new Jetta that VW showed off in Detroit for sure. The Vizzion looks right at home in the same lineup as the I.D. Crozz, VW’s sharp, futuristic crossover SUV concept. It’s also far less gauche than the I.D. Buzz microbus prototype. All told, the Vizzion looks and sounds like it will be fun to drive.

That said, VW is very much trying to shape the early conversation about the I.D. Vizzion to include what it might someday evolve into once the car is capable of completely driving itself. In fact, every one of the new photos of the Vizzion that VW released today show a version of the car without a steering wheel, pedals, or even buttons, echoing the promise the company made when it released the first teaser images in February.



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