The Volkswagen E-Golf Is Dead In US. Long Live The I.D. Crozz! (And Hatch?

The Volkswagen e-Golf Is Dead In US. Long Live The I.D. Sedan sales are down in the US, where customers strongly prefer SUVs and trucks. Dodge has stopped making family sedans, Ford and Chevrolet are slashing sedan production, and Volkswagen is not immune to the trend. Since 1974, the Golf has been a sales leader for the Wolfsburg-based company. In particular, performance models like the GTI and Type R have been very popular with customers. In fact, the spirited GTI practically invented the “hot hatch” market segment. But sales of the plain vanilla Golf have been sliding recently in the US. With the debut of the 8th generation Golf just months away, Volkswagen has decided to juggle the Golf model lineup to reflect market realities. In California last week, a Volkswagen spokesperson told Motor 1 the US will not get the standard version of the new Golf. In addition, the SportWagen will also no longer be available in America. Only the GTI and Golf R versions of the 8th generation Golf will be coming stateside.

In a further development, another VW spokesperson told InsideEVs there will be no e-Golfs sold in America after 2019. The next electric car from Volkswagen to be offered in the US will be the I.D. Crozz, which is scheduled to begin production at the VW factory in Tennessee in late 2020. The first of those cars will be designated 2021 models. That’s all well and good but what of a successor to the e-Golf? Speaking at the Petersen Automotive Museum’s Future of the Automobile conference in Los Angeles last week, Klaus Bischoff, VW’s head of design, told the audience the I.D. A Volkswagen spokesperson said in a subsequent email, “In theory, the I.D. ” The inference is that the smallest I.D. US showrooms if the sales mix in America changes. And what could cause such a change? Gas at 4 bucks a gallon, that’s what. But that could never happen, could it? Steve Hanley Steve writes about the interface between technology and sustainability from his home in Rhode Island and anywhere else the Singularity may lead him.

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Volkswagen is Germany’s biggest private employer. They employ approximately 300,000 people across Germany, 60,000 of which are at the main manufacturing plant. Another 600,000 or more are employed worldwide. These jobs along with the company as a whole were in jeopardy when Volkswagen was found to have installed software onto their vehicles that cheated emissions testing on their diesel cars. Volkswagen spent years promoting their “Clean Diesel” cars as an alternative to electric and hybrid cars, which included the models of Passat, Golf, Beetle, and Jetta. They campaigned heavily to boast about how “green” and fuel efficient their cars were, and Volkswagen customers were impressed with the ads and claimed they felt enticed into buying diesel cars because of the environmental benefits and new diesel technology. But in September of 2015, the Environmental Protection Agency discovered these claims were not true. The EPA found the company had installed computer software onto the diesel cars which cheated the emissions testing of the cars. This computer software, nicknamed “defeat devices”, allowed the cars to sense when it was in a test mode and when it was under regular driving conditions.