The Good of the Tesla Approach
With the electric ID Models, Volkswagen May Have Tried a Little Too Hard to Emulate Tesla. With a Future Facelift of the ID4, This Will Happen Again, But by Thoroughly Improving It.
Highlights Volkswagen ID4
When it comes to evs, tesla is a quickly mentioned as a shining example. Car Manufacturers Follow the American Ev Pioneer not only when it comes to powertrains, but also when it comes to interior concepts, sales models and even the structure of price lists. In The Electric ID Models from Volkswagen, This Manifests Itelf in All Sorts of Ways. The ID3 and later The ID4 Resolutely Said Goodbye to Volkswagen’s Well-Tought-Out, But also Traditional Interiors. Instead of Buttons, There Were Touchscreens and Sliders, Starting and Stopping is Fully Automatic And The Number of Avisable Options was Drastically Reduced.
MinimalMM Has Since Prevailed, Both in the Cars Themselves and on the Price List. That approach has brought a many good things for tesla, but at Volkswagen we had mainly to think of the saying ‘cobbler, stick to your last’. After all, The Germans Largely Ignored Their Own Expertise and Deliberately Abandoned the Traditional Strengths of Their Brand, While Matching Tesla and Other Newcomers On A Technological Level was Modernately Successful. Ease of use and interior Quality Declined by Leaps and Bounds, Without Enough Visible Strengths to Compensate.
Volkswagen ID4 (Illustration: Larson).
Buttons
In The Meantime, Volkswagen Even Freely Admits That Mistakes Have Been Made in This Area, And The Way Up Has Been Found Again. ID Models Became Cheaper and Better, New Infotainment Brought Relief for Users and for the Models in which the Maddening Touchpads on the Steering Wheel Have not yet leg replaced by Physical buttons, at least the promise hasbade that this willes Happen.
However, The Biggest Improvement has yet to come. For, Among Others, The ID4, Volkswagen is Reportedly Working on a serious facelift, which serves much more to improve than to modernize. In Fact, The Brand is Once Again Following Tesla, which also implemented very significant Improvements to the Model 3 and Model Y by Completely Renewing the Cars From Top To Bottom.
Expect Something Similar for the ID4, AltheHegh, Unlike Tesla, Volkswagen is Opting for More Physical Buttons and Switches. Volkswagen’s Technical Development Chief Kai Grünitz is Said to Have Told Autocar That the Current Sliders and Digital ‘Buttons’ Will Be Replaced by Familiar Physical Copies. A fine infotainment system with a large touchscreen can of course remain, but the rest of the operation will be a lot asier and clearer.
The interior quality will also Improve and the design will be significantly updated. The Round, Friendly Shapes of the Id4 Will Give Way Where Possible to a Sleeker and More Businesslike Design, Following the Example of the Id.2all Concept, which Serves As A Harbinger For A Smaller Id2.
Also ID3
Just in Technical Terms, a lot can change with the ID4. We are counting on a revised and significant modernized version of the current meb platform, with new battery packs and cobalt-free lfp batteries for certain versions. ‘MEB+’ Potentialy also Makes The Electric Volkswagens Cheaper, also Such A Classic Example From The Tesla Handbook.
Finally, there is Possible Good News for Those Who Like these Improvements, But Not An ID4. A similar fate undoubtedly awaits the id5, which is closely linked to the id4, althegh it is still very questionable white it will be there in the future. Volkswagen is also working on a similarly modified ID3 at the same time. That seems like a good and logical choice. After all, The Disadvantages of That Car Are Also in Fact Concentrated On Details and Not On The Basis, which is fine. The ID Models Can Thus Recoup Their Substantial Development Costs With An Extra Long Lifespan, While Volkswagen’s Electric Range Will Soon Finally Do Justice to What Are Traditionally The Strengths of This Brand. Will Everything Be Alright with Those Germans After All?