Volkswagen Project Trinity: Tesla-rivalling ID 4 due in 2026

The basis for the impending ID 4 saloon is Volkswagen’s new Scalable Techniques Platform (SSP), a skateboard-type architecture that Volkswagen Team CEO Herbert Diess has said will switch the existing Modularer E-Antriebs-Baukasten (MEB) structure as very well as each the J1 and High quality System Electric powered (PPE) architectures developed by the Volkswagen-owned Audi and Porsche models.

“The future era of our hardware platforms will make it possible for us to reduce complexity about time as we will consolidate our existing system to a single architecture for the total e-products portfolio, from entry degree to top rated of the variety, from 85kW [114bhp] to 850kW [1140bhp],” he said.

When the MEB system applied by all of Volkswagen’s existing ID-badged types works by using a 400V electric powered architecture, the SSP will be equipped to assist systems at up to 800V. This will empower the ID 4 saloon to be provided with a a great deal greater charging potential than the 135kW of the recently upgraded ID 4 SUV, and with it noticeably more rapidly cost periods than people reached right now, furnishing a large-powered DC charging procedure is utilized.

Practically nothing is official, although insiders converse about a reduction in charging time by a “factor of three”. As a level of reference, the new ID 5 SUV is claimed to present a 5-80% charge (sufficient for a claimed 242 miles) in 29 minutes.

Facts of the battery know-how to be adopted by the ID 4 saloon have still to be uncovered. Sources propose it will use cobalt-free of charge chemistry related to the lithium iron phosphate (LFP) blade battery produced by Chinese vehicle maker BYD. As with the present ID versions, the new Volkswagen is envisioned to be supplied with batteries supplying differing vitality capacities and ranges.

It is nonetheless early times, but Volkswagen states the most sophisticated ID design yet will offer a array of up to 435 miles on the European WLTP test cycle – a extra than 20% maximize on its existing electrical products. It also states the ID 4 saloon will be able of accelerating from -62mph in considerably less than five seconds.

The ID 4 saloon will take whole gain of the SSP platform’s capacity to package its battery wholly inside a flat floor, with cab-forward proportions aimed at providing generous inside accommodation.