The ID Buzz as an electric MPV, can it seriously handle the Mercedes EQV?
As an electric model, the Volkswagen ID Buzz immediately opens its own segment, somewhere between a delivery van and a passenger car. Or is it a direct rival to the Mercedes EQV? That is an electric passenger bus.
What exactly is the Volkswagen ID Buzz?
That is not so easy to answer. Volkswagen offers it as a passenger car and as a delivery van, often via the website of Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. However, the Buzz shares its MEB platform with Volkswagen’s other ID models and uses the 77-kWh battery pack and the engine of the ID.4, among others. So technically it is mainly a passenger car, which is unique for a vehicle that otherwise looks so van-like. This has a disadvantage for the order version, namely limited payload (in kg, not in kW), but it hardly matters for the passenger variant.
Why the Mercedes EQV against the ID Buzz?
Although Mercedes is also trying to sell its electric passenger bus as a passenger car, that story is less credible here. After all, the EQ name – fitting for models such as the EQA and EQS – and associated design details cannot conceal the fact that this is ‘just’ an electric V-class, in turn the chic brother of the Vito. The good news is that the Vito already looks very distinguished for a van, which is even more true for the EQV. It is therefore not surprising that the V-class is the ‘vehicle of choice’ for all kinds of shuttle services in Europe, especially in the higher segment. Still, the EQV has a hard time disguising its van roots on the road. We tell you exactly how that works and how the double test works out in this video.
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