Volkswagen's Mission Efficiency EV Goes 794 Miles on a Single Charge
Volkswagen Just Built an EV That Can Go Nearly 900 Miles on a Charge
Volkswagen's Mission Efficiency concept traveled 1,278 km (794 miles) from Wolfsburg to Vienna on one charge, with 164 km (102 miles) of range left. It achieves a record-low 0.158 drag coefficient, consumes just 6.89 kWh/100 km, and uses the same motor and battery as the ID. Polo. The 2+2 coupe offers 481 liters of luggage space and a solar roof.
The 54.9-kWh net battery was recharged only once during the journey, and the car still had a claimed remaining range of 102 miles (164 km) when it arrived in Vienna.
- crote
China has already solved the range problem by speeding up charging. When you can recharge 5 hours of highway driving in range during a 5-minute bathroom stop, an additional few hundred miles just isn't that useful anymore.
You could also go the other way and use the improved range to shrink the battery, but with the ongoing battery cost drop that's not exactly a gamechanger either - and fast-charging long-range Chinese EVs are available for their domestic market for a fraction of the cost of entry-level Western models as well...
Don't get me wrong, improving aerodynamics is a nice goal, but with the ongoing push towards gigantic SUVs there's zero chance anything even remotely resembling this concept car will ever see the light of day.
- gbil
It is stated that this was a single charge trip
>It’s also the most efficient EV in its class, consuming just 6.89 kWh/100 km without charging losses.
>The VW Mission Efficiency covered 1,278 km (794 miles) on a single charge and still had 164 km (102 miles) of range left at the end of the trip.
But at 6.89kWh/100km for a 1278km trip equals 88kWh battery and it is stated later that the battery is a 54.9kWh one and that was recharged during the journey.
> The 54.9-kWh net battery was recharged only once during the journey....
It would be nice to have an article that makes sense from time to time...
- ketzu
Based on the battery of 55kWh this is about efficiency, not packing more batteries:
> 6.48 kWh/100 km
At a constant 68km/h in perfect conditions (no up/down) and no additional consumers of energy (climate control).
Even on a real route they apparently got some useful stats with 7.51 kWh/100km including charging. Cool.
My car is around 17-20 kWh/100km at a 64kWh battery for a medium cost car in germany. I wish it was even close to that efficiency.
- lorey
They did something very similar 20+ years ago called XL1 to achieve 1l/100km, never made it into production. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/VW_XL1
- jrmg
Shape reminds me a lot of the first gen Honda Insight - also built to be low drag.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Insight#First_generation...
- tester756
Let's hope aerodynamics can save us from SUV disease
- swiftcoder
Sign me up for all of these innovations in an actual production car. No idea why the whole market seems to be obsessed with ever-wider SUVs...
- helsinkiandrew
Perhaps better info on VWs own press release:
https://www.volkswagen-newsroom.com/en/press-releases/missio...
This is concept car that has no planned release date.