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VW boosts its goal, vows to build 22 million EVs over next decade

The previous already-audacious goal was 15 million

The previous already-audacious goal was 15 million.

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Bet everything on EVs: Inside VW's $91 billion strategy shift

How company leaders resolved to create opportunity from disaster — 'if we jump far enough'

How company leaders resolved to create opportunity from disaster — 'if we jump far enough.'

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Cars that still qualify for the $7,500 EV tax credit

Tesla and GM EVs no longer qualify for the full credit. Here are others that do

These are electric cars and plug-in hybrids that will still qualify for the full $7,500 EV tax credit in 2019.

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Volkswagen will devote 3 German plants to electric vehicles

This as CEO says it has laid the groundwork to build 50 million EVs

This as CEO says it has laid the groundwork to build 50 million EVs.

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VW plans to bring 'We Share' EV car-sharing to U.S. by 2020

It will target non-owner urbanites, but will have a lot of competition

It will target non-owner urbanites, but will have a lot of competition

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Volkswagen assigns $24 billion in battery orders to speed EV push

‘We have pulled out all the stops,’ will build EVs in 16 factories

'We have pulled out all the stops' in the move to electric vehicles

Quick Spin
2017 Volkswagen e-Golf Drivers' Notes Review | Putting the car first

Great-driving hatchback that happens to have an electric motor

Just a smoother, quieter Golf.

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VW's Electrify America plans nationwide network of 4,800 EV chargers

They'll be built at 500 stations in largest cities and along highways

Electrify America plans to build more than 4,800 charging stations nationwide, with half of them in operation in 2019.

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2018 VW e-Golf pricing revealed, and it comes in close to the Nissan Leaf

It's within a few hundred dollars of the Hyundai Ionic and new Nissan Leaf.

First Drive
A Golf by any other name | 2017 Volkswagen e-Golf First Drive

An electric car that puts the car first.

Electricity, delivered in a familiar package.

Podcast
Next Corvette Conspiracy Theories | Autoblog Podcast #514

Plus Spend My Money and What We're Driving

Bring your foil hat!

Study
1 in 7 Americans say they might buy an EV next, as sales of electrics surge

About the same number of drivers say they're buying a pickup next.

AAA poll indicates 30 million Americans may buy an electric vehicle within three to five years.

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2017 Volkswagen e-Golf electric range grows to 125 miles

Still short of the Bolt's, though longer than the i3's.

Power output also grows.

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The worst cars we drove in 2016

Sure, there are few truly bad cars anymore, but we definitely did not like these.

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Volkswagen introduces a freshened 2017 e-Golf with a bigger battery

It can now travel 124 miles on a charge.

The motor is more powerful, too.

New VW MEB electric vehicle, with up to 373 miles of range, coming in 2020

It's all part of VW's big electromobility plan.

Look for autonomous drive tech, too.

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Updated VW e-Golf will have maybe 124 miles of real-world range

A battery improvement of 50 percent should help things, right?

Thanks to better battery cells, the facelifted VW e-Golf should have a real-world range of around 124 miles when it arrives this fall.

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