ID. Life: VW reveals tiny, cheap electric SUV aimed at first-time car buyers

Priced for younger, first-time car buyers, the ID. Life will value about €20,000, the equal of slightly below $24,000 at present trade charges. VW didn't say which particular markets the brand new mannequin could be provided in.

Since it is only a idea car, the ID. Life's designers have included some options that may not seem within the precise manufacturing car.

For occasion, the car is produced from a number of totally different recycled and renewable supplies. Wood chips have been used as a coloring agent within the car's paint, VW stated, and the light-weight detachable roof is produced from recycled bottles. The tires are produced from biologically based mostly oils, rice husks and pure rubber, VW claimed.

The open-topped steering wheel has a touchscreen at its heart to manage a variety of driving options, together with the gear selector. The driver's personal cellular phone can be utilized like a middle touchscreen.

The idea car additionally consists of a variety of options that, primarily, flip the car right into a cellular entertainment heart.

"The customer of tomorrow won't simply want to get from A to B; they will be much more interested in the experiences that a car can offer," stated Volkswagen model chief government Ralf Brandstätter. "The ID. Life is our answer to this."

The little crossover even has a online game projector together with a projection display that rises from the dashboard. The back and front seats can fold down flat for use as beds or to make room for giant cargo.

The ID. Life is predicated on the identical electric car engineering as some present VW fashions, such because the ID.4 crossover SUV. The ID. Life is smaller, although, and it has front-wheel-drive as an alternative of rear-wheel-drive like VW's different ID fashions. The car can go from zero to 60 miles in beneath seven seconds and can be capable of journey about 248 miles on a single cost based mostly on European testing parameters, in accordance with VW.