Volkswagen has announced that it will showcase the first sporty top-of-the-range electric mode -the new ID.4 GTX on 28 April. The company said that in Europe, the respective performance models of the ID. Family will wear the logo GTX in the future. Like GTI and GTE, it stands for its own product brand; it charges the world of electric mobility from Volkswagen with new, intelligent sportiness.
Klaus Zellmer, Board Member for Marketing and Sales at the Volkswagen brand, said, “The letters GT have long stood for driving pleasure. Now the X is building the bridge to the mobility of the future. Sustainability and sportiness are not mutually exclusive, but complement each other intelligently.”
The GTX models are awe-inspiring when it comes to performance and design. An additional electric motor on the front axle brings the all-wheel-drive into the ID. Family designed for maximum efficiency. The additional motor switches intelligently within a few milliseconds when very high performance or strong traction is required. In the new ‘Traction’ driving mode, it is even permanently activated.
In addition, sporty design details and their own light signature underline the top performance of the GTX models. The new product brand for the ID. Family gives the ACCELERATE corporate strategy a further boost. Volkswagen wants to become the most desired brand for sustainable mobility. The goal is to increase the share of pure electric cars in Europe to 70% of sales by 2030.
The global company wants to become climate neutral by 2050; around € 16billion will be invested in e-mobility, hybridisation and digitisation by 2025.