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They may just be backing off the ID.number thing. Their _old_ electric car name was the normal car name with an 'e' in front (eGolf, eUp); feels kind of like th
by rsynnott 1y ago
They may just be backing off the ID.number thing. Their _old_ electric car name was the normal car name with an 'e' in front (eGolf, eUp); feels kind of like they're going back to some version of that.
Which seems sensible, honestly; ID.3 through 8 either currently exist or will soon. Who's going to keep track of which is which?
- Zigurd 1y agoBy comparison, anyway, "Leaf" looks pretty good. While iSomething, or 'e', is derivative and quickly dated. Who would even think of naming a technology product iSomething as if you found this Internet thing just last week. A measure of EVS going mainstream will be that you don't name them anything distinctive. You name them like a car.
- rsynnott 1y agoI get the impression that VW may be deliberately going for weird branding and styling precisely _because_ the eUp and eGolf (apart from the names) were _too_ car-like; they really looked almost identical to the petrol variants, and I think for about a decade people didn't realise that VW made electric cars at all. A lot of people thought the ID.3 and 4 were their first EVs. Hyundai also seems to have done well with their notably-weird-looking Ioniq series. It seems like, at least for the moment, the markets actually want electric cars to be a bit weird.