Volkswagen to reveal new electric car concept

Volkswagen is due to reveal a one-seat electric car concept in early September as the manufacturer explores its greener future.

Part of the on-going project to cut its average fleet emissions  Volkswagen has designed the concept vehicle for limited journeys, with the vehicle due to be unveiled on September 8 in Berlin. There's no word yet as to whether it will appear at the Frankfurt motor show just a few days later, but we'd be surprised not to see it there.

VW research chief Juergen Leohold would not go into details regarding the vehicle's top speed or range in an interview with the Financial Times, but said that the vehicle would be ‘even better' than the XL1 Super Efficient Vehicle hybrid which uses 0.9 liters of fuel per 100km (313 UK mpg/ 261 U.S. mpg). The XL1 was revealed in January.

VW hopes that by 2018 – the year the manufacturer aims to sell more than 10 million vehicles – three percent of its sales will come through battery-powered vehicles, Martin Winterkorn, VW's chief executive officer, has said.
Electric versions of VW Golf hatchbacks and the new Up! are expected by 2013.

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By Rufus Thompson