Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Diess has shared four interesting design sketches of new electric cars. It is probably the announced small EV from Seat, an electric top model from Volkswagen and a truck from MAN.
Diess shows the images with the accompanying text that these are some designs with which the group wants to offer a rebuttal to the rapidly emerging competition from promising start-ups, among others. He received the images from the design director of the Volkswagen Group, Klaus Zyciora. Some things are familiar, but there is also something new.
To start with the first image above. On it we see a gruffly looking at the world model with obvious Seat influences. Most likely, this is the compact electric car announced earlier this week that will serve the B segment. It will appear in 2025 and will of course also have a Volkswagen cousin, which will probably be called ID2. Seat is betting on the price range of € 20,000 to € 25,000.
The second sketch shows a fairly stretched Volkswagen. This may be a precursor to the ‘Trinity’, an electric flagship of the brand that, among other things, has to set the course for autonomous driving for Volkswagen. That makes us think about the third sketch, because in that futuristic interior we no longer see a steering wheel and that sketch may therefore also belong to the Trinity. It is almost impossible that those two images belong together, whether it is for the Trinity or not. After all, both sketches strongly remind us of the ID Vizzion Concept from 2017, a fairly large sedan with a sloping roofline.
Finally, there is a drawing that clearly shows a futuristic MAN truck. Hydrogen is not something they are very enthusiastic about at the Volkswagen Group, but who knows, this may be a harbinger of a truck with fuel cell. It is of course also possible that the company is working on a way to make a truck with a plug interesting enough.