{"id":185167,"date":"2024-03-15T12:27:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/volkswagen-announces-production-start-date-for-its-most-affordable-20k-id-1-ev"},"modified":"2024-03-15T12:27:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T17:27:00","slug":"volkswagen-announces-production-start-date-for-its-most-affordable-20k-id-1-ev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/volkswagen-announces-production-start-date-for-its-most-affordable-20k-id-1-ev","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen announces production start date for its most affordable $20K ID.1 EV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/volkswagen-announces-production-start-date-for-its-most-affordable-20k-id-1-ev2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/guides\/volkswagen\/\">Volkswagen<\/a> announced it aims to start producing its most affordable ID.1 electric car, starting at 20,000 euros ($21,700), in 2027. The $20K Volkswagen ID.1 will offer \u201caffordable electric mobility for everyone,\u201d VW brand leader Thomas Shafer said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe working title is ID.1 and the vehicle is planned for 2027,\u201d Shafer confirmed during VW\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.volkswagen-group.com\/en\/volkswagen-group-annual-media-analyst-and-investor-conference-on-march-13-2024-18144\">annual press conference<\/a> Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Work on the ID.1 is already well underway. Shafer said, \u201cWe\u2019re already in the middle of it, we know what the car should look like.\u201d However, the biggest challenge will be deciding where to build it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, Volkswagen announced it aims to start producing its most affordable ID.1 electric car, starting at 20,000 euros ($21,700), in 2027. The $20K Volkswagen ID.1 will offer \u201caffordable electric mobility for everyone,\u201d VW brand leader Thomas Shafer said Thursday. \u201cThe working title is ID.1 and the vehicle is planned for 2027,\u201d Shafer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185167","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}