First introduced in September, the Passat GTE made its official unveiling at the 2014 Paris Motor Show earlier this month. The Passat follows the naming conventions of the Golf GTE – which is also a plug-in hybrid vehicle. The hybrid powerplant uses a 1.4 liter turbo gasoline engine and an electric motor for total system… Continue reading Volkswagen Passat GTE from the Paris Motor Show
Back in July, Volkswagen announced their plans to offer a plug-in hybrid version of their popular Passat sedan. That’s when we learned the Passat plug-in would have a 9.9 kWh battery pack good for 31 miles NEDC and around 22 miles on the EPA test cycle. However, Volkswagen hadn’t announced a name, and only revealed… Continue reading Volkswagen Passat GTE plug-in hybrid coming in 2015
Volkswagen has revealed technical details of the upcoming, all-new, 2015 Passat.The information we are most interested in of course, is the details of the plug-in hybrid system. According to Volkswagen, the Passat plug-in hybrid has an 80 kW electric motor, energized by a 9.9 kWh lithium ion battery pack with liquid cooling, which VW says… Continue reading 2015 Volkswagen Passat plug-in hybrid will have 31 electric miles
Volkswagen will be debuting the 2015 Passat Plug-in Hybrid electric vehicle in production form in October 2014. As you can see in the recently released design sketches, the new Passat design is longer and sleeker than the previous. The newly designed Passat will initially come in a twin turbo diesel version, as well as a… Continue reading Volkswagen Passat Plug-in Hybrid will debut in October
Autobild.de, a German automotive news site, is reporting that the plug-in hybrid Volkswagen Passat is a ‘done deal’ for 2015. …the plug-in hybrid version of the Volkswagen Passat are to follow soon. The Passat plug-in will use the same drivetrain as the upcoming Audi A3 e-Tron, including the 1.4 liter turbocharged gasoline engine, and a… Continue reading Volkswagen Passat Plug-in set for production
