Headline is just a straight up lie. There's no "battery breakthrough". It's just an extremely efficient design, with all the compromises that go along with it.
this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2026
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50 mile range without the dieselgate style software?
Just as practical.
Not true, this is an actual usable car:
Engineers could have pushed things further by placing the ID Polo on a crash diet, but the company wanted to keep it as close to the production model as possible.
What production model?
Tell me you didn't read the article without telling me you didn't read the article.
I never do.
I'll never understand why people comment on articles they don't read. They're just wasting everyone's time, their own included.
I'll never understand why people waste their time reading articles with a blatant lie right in the title?
I read the original content directly from VW.
If there's something more you need explained, feel free to ask.
Obviously the one stated, the VW ID Polo.
Now boost the I'd.buzz range.
I wonder how those wheel cover things would work in the snow?
As Saab found out in the sixties, very poorly indeed, they promptly redesigned to get rid of those.
The range does not come from the battery, it's the aero shape and high geared motor.
So they basically tried turning their Polo into an Aptera 😅
Ah, I didn't know you could actually buy that one (for >100k).
Except this is real, and a car, not a mobility scooter.
"Real" as in concept car that will never be produced, while the Aptera is actually planned for production 🙄
the Aptera is actually planned for production 🙄
since 2009. 17 fucking years and simps are waiting....
