{"id":110149,"date":"2020-07-18T21:50:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T04:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/volkswagen-may-bring-the-beetle-back-as-an-electric-car"},"modified":"2020-07-18T21:50:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T04:50:15","slug":"volkswagen-may-bring-the-beetle-back-as-an-electric-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/volkswagen-may-bring-the-beetle-back-as-an-electric-car","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen May Bring the Beetle Back as an Electric Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WWrkENGbkNs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorbiscuit.com\/for-the-518th-time-there-is-more-vw-id-buzz-news-yawn\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">While the ID Buzz<\/a>, aka the electric Microbus, isn\u2019t quite production-ready, it may not be the only iconic vehicle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorbiscuit.com\/tag\/volkswagen\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Volkswagen<\/a>\u2019s rebooting into an EV. 2019 saw the release of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorbiscuit.com\/is-it-hard-to-find-the-final-edition-of-the-volkswagen-beetle\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the final Volkswagen<\/a> Beetle. Despite its styling and long history, consumer interest lagged, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorbiscuit.com\/why-did-volkswagen-stop-making-the-beetle\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">VW discontinued it<\/a>. But now, there\u2019s rumors of a new Volkswagen Beetle\u2014an electric one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorbiscuit.com\/why-is-this-1964-volkswagen-selling-for-290000\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Why Is This 1964 Volkswagen Selling For $290,000?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This news comes courtesy of the electric Volkswagen forum <em>VW ID Talk<\/em>, <em><a aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2020\/07\/16\/vw-e-beetle-karmann-trademark-europe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Autoblog<\/a><\/em> reports. Forum users discovered several VW trademark applications submitted to the EU Intellectual Property Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the ID Buzz, aka the electric Microbus, isn\u2019t quite production-ready, it may not be the only iconic vehicle Volkswagen\u2019s rebooting into an EV. 2019 saw the release of the final Volkswagen Beetle. Despite its styling and long history, consumer interest lagged, and VW discontinued it. But now, there\u2019s rumors of a new Volkswagen Beetle\u2014an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}