New VW ID.2 city EV to offer Urban hatch and X crossover versions

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New VW ID.2 city EV to offer Urban hatch and X crossover versions
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The full skinny on the cheapest electric Volkswagens in the pipeline – the new VW ID.2 Urban hatch and ID.2 X crossover twins. Here in 2025 and 2026, priced from around £22k and revealed in our latest scoop dossier ⚡️ 🔋 👀

Look out for the first front-wheel drive version of MEB, decontented for a cheaper price point.Thomas Schafer, CEO of Volkswagen, told CAR the smallest EV was scheduled to arrive in about two years’ time. ‘The small electric cars come in 2025-2026 – there will be four cars between Volkswagen, Skoda and Cupra built in Spain. They will replace the combustion engine vehicles for our small vehicles. It makes no sense making small cars meet EU7. It would add £3000-5000 more to the cost.

‘The team is working on ideas how we now get into the area below €20k. We have not found the solution yet. There is a reason why all the manufacturers do electric cars from big to small and inch their way down. I personally think it can be done. We will probably have to talk about range. What is really necessary in such a vehicle? How many variants of it do you really need? Battery costs at the moment are the deciding factor.

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