Green Car Reports went to Berlin, and drove 3 electric vehicles. Their favorite was the Volkswagen e-Up! electric city car.
They said it is "small, rollerskate-agile, and performs well enough that it would be our preferred vehicle in any crowded city."
Comparing it to the e-Golf, for those who live in parts of the world where they will have an option between either electric vehicle, the e-Up! has a smaller battery pack and a smaller engine, but because of it's decreased size and weight, handling and performance felt the same as in the electric Golf.
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Along with the Volkswagen Golf GTE plug-in hybrid, that makes three separate plug-in models--an impressive opening salvo from one of the three largest carmakers in the world.
And they're all good in their own way, although we look forward to driving a production Golf GTE, since the development prototype we drove was far from smooth in blending its various sources of power.
But the e-Golf and e-Up are both very good for first production electric cars. If Volkswagen is committed to marketing them aggressively at reasonable prices--and that's a big "if"--we think they should do well in their various markets.
Here are interesting images of the Volkswagen electric Up! in front of a US military plane (go figure).
This is the link to the full review
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/109 ... dden-fruit
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