The app even shows the most recent parking location of the e-Golf on a map. In its exterior appearance, the updated e-Golf features modified front and rear ends with new LED headlights and LED tail lights. The e-Golf heats interior air with an electrical heating unit - as in other electric vehicles. It offers the same familiar Golf level of comfort, even at temperatures below freezing. If the user wants to warm up the car while it is charging, utilizing energy from the electrical grid, this can be activated with the "Car-Net e-Remote" remote control app. This function preserves the charge of the high-voltage battery, preserving more energy for driving. The heating system in the e-Golf is an example of how innovative solutions can increase the efficiency of electric vehicles in everyday use - and consequently their driving range. The key concept here is heat pumps: the heat pump principle, which is familiar from energy-efficient buildings, is being used in a vehicle here - the e-Golf. The optional heat pump warms the vehicle interior using ambient air and lost heat from the power unit components. The heat pump that was specially developed for the e-Golf reduces electrical consumption and improves the driving range of the electric Golf perceptibly. 2NEDC: The specified range is the range when running through the cycles of the New European Driving Cycle (NEDC) on a rolling road test bed. The actual range may vary from this figure in practice.
Most people know that the word Scirocco derives from the Mediterranean wind which rolls in from the Sahara desert, I'm sure you knew that. Did you also know that the last Volkswagen Scirocco finally rolled off the production line as far back as 1989? Well after an absence of around 19 years the Scirocco is back, some say by popular demand others say that the car manufacturers attempts at recycling has started with just the names! Whatever your view on the matter I think the consensus of opinion is that the return of this sporty hatchback is all together a welcome one. The origins of the Scirocco go back to the early seventies when VW realised they would have to replace the beautiful but rather ageing Karmann Ghia. For this they enlisted the help of the Italian styling guru Giorgetto Giugiaro and so the Scirocco (or Type 53) was born. Production continued until around 1989 by which time a further 290,000 were produced.
