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Volkswagen e-Up and its sisters(Skoda Citigo and Seat Mii) exist? It's a cheap car with Volkswagen build quality, 36kWh battery that easily gives you 150 miles
by gambiting 3y ago
Volkswagen e-Up and its sisters(Skoda Citigo and Seat Mii) exist? It's a cheap car with Volkswagen build quality, 36kWh battery that easily gives you 150 miles range, no touch screen nonsense, fits a baby seat no problem, Costco shopping, it just works day in and day out. It's literally my favourite car I ever owned, and I used to have a Mercedes-AMG at one point. It's just so usable and costs nothing to run(charging at home it's literally less than a pound for 60 miles, I think my old petrol car would use a pound worth of petrol just to start up).
- TulliusCicero 3y agoI just googled the e-Up. Doesn't exist in the US, and it's also being discontinued.
- pjc50 3y agoThere seem to be a lot of models with really short lifetimes. I've been looking to buy a used EV to get past the depreciation cliff, and the number of ones for sale that have been discontinued - not a model number increment, just vanished from the range entirely - is remarkable. It's like smartphones.
- gambiting 3y agoI mean the e-Up has been in production since 2013, it enjoyed 10 years of market presence in pretty much unchanged form(other than the battery bump in 2020). And it's only being discontinued because VW is replacing it with an ID.2
- bonton89 3y agoI still don't think we'll see any of these small affordable ones in the US. The only one close I'm aware of is Nissan's Leaf and it is being discontinued last I heard. I'd like to try one out for my next car but I can't afford a luxury car.
- subpixel 3y agoHyundai Kona Electric is comparable?
- gambiting 3y agoI know that when placed next an F-150 the Kona looks almost like a toy, but in Europe it's a proper family car. And I can confirm it's much larger than an e-Up(and also twice as expensive).
- rsynnott 3y agoI’d assume that VW will get around to launching the ID.2 in the US at some point. The US is a smaller electric car market than Europe and is less enthusiastic about small cars, so it makes sense that they prioritise Europe, but there’s presumably some market for it in the US.
- TulliusCicero 3y agoThere was also the Bolt...which is also being discontinued. Yeah, it's pretty dumb.