2023 Volkswagen Aero B electric sedan confirmed, teased

Volkswagen has confirmed its upcoming mid-sized electrical sedan shall be revealed in 2023.

In the course of the 2022 Volkswagen AG annual media convention, Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess teased a really blurry picture of what he known as the Aero B, indicating the brand new mannequin shall be an electrical different for the Passat.

It’s unclear if the manufacturing model of the electrical sedan shall be known as the Aero B, or if the German automaker will title it the ID. Aero as a substitute.

The teaser picture of the Aero B solely exhibits the entrance fascia and a part of its aspect profile.

Like the entire Volkswagen ID. vary, there’s a lightweight bar that connects the headlights plus an illuminated VW badge, whereas there are some significantly massive cutouts within the entrance bumper.

We now have but to see a full picture of the physique however the teased electrical sedan seems to have a modern silhouette with a low roofline.

The Aero B will seemingly be supplied in single-motor rear-wheel rive and dual-motor all-wheel drive variants, and a sporty GTX mannequin is a risk.

The Volkswagen Aero B was first previewed in late 2020 by the ID. Vizzion idea, and in wagon kind because the ID. House Vizzion.

We’ve additionally beforehand reported on spied prototypes of the upcoming electrical sedan throughout testing, with Volkswagen utilizing camouflage stickers to disguise it as a Chinese language-market Passat.

Nonetheless, the Aero B’s identification was betrayed by its flush door handles and brief entrance and rear overhangs.

The Aero B shall be offered alongside the Passat, which is able to reportedly turn out to be wagon-only in its subsequent technology, and can sit beneath Volkswagen’s upcoming all-electric flagship at the moment known as the Undertaking Trinity.

Volkswagen just lately introduced it’s going to be constructing a brand new €2 billion (A$3.05 billion) manufacturing plant close to the prevailing Wolfsburg plant that can produce the Trinity.

Development is slated to start in spring 2023 (March to June 2023), with Trinity manufacturing starting in 2026.

The Trinity is about to be the primary car constructed of Volkswagen Group’s Scalable Methods Platform (SSP) and can provide an electrical vary of over 700km, a “shorter charging time” and Stage 4 autonomous driving.

Over the lifetime of the SSP structure, Volkswagen is anticipating to supply “greater than 40 million autos” on this electrical platform, which is able to succeed right now’s MEB and PPE all-electric architectures plus the internal-combustion MQB, MSB and MLB architectures.

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