VW Committed to the Cause of Diesel Hybrids?

[German_1er_diesel]

Well, for some people it effectively can be. Some companies where I live are incentivizing electric car ownership by installing charging stations in the parking lot. At my work you get unlimited use of them for $15 a month...I'd call that a pretty good deal.

If you live close enough to work to fit your commute inside the GTE's 45-km (depending on which tires you have) real-world electric range, and if you live in a country with tax incentives for plug-in hybrids, then yes.

 

[rotarykid]

Well, for some people it effectively can be. Some companies where I live are incentivizing electric car ownership by installing charging stations in the parking lot. At my work you get unlimited use of them for $15 a month...I'd call that a pretty good deal.

Not such a great deal for the rest of us who are forced to carry your road tax burden!

I hope every state soon passes a yearly fee that some have recently passed to get some of the money these road tax cheats owe that they should be required to pay...........

 

[52172]

200 combined hp and 80 mpg in fantasy dreamland... Unless you count electricity as "free"

It's gonna happen buddy. The diesel will recharge the batteries while cruising. No need to plug in. Also top of car will be full solar power for a trickle charge always.

 

[bhtooefr]

Not such a great deal for the rest of us who are forced to carry your road tax burden!

I hope every state soon passes a yearly fee that some have recently passed to get some of the money these road tax cheats owe that they should be required to pay...........

Cars have almost no road impact, it's the semis that are the road tax cheats even though they pay: http://bhtooefr.org/blog/2012/03/19...il-is-far-better-for-long-distance-transport/

Also, EVs and PHEVs have less negative externalities in other places, making up for the slight increase in unpaid-for road wear from using one of them instead of an internal combustion vehicle.

 

[atc98002]

Pictures of the gte

Autoblog has some pretty good shots of it.

http://www.autoblog.com/2015/01/13/volkswagen-cross-coupe-gte-detroit-2015/

 

[Lightflyer1]

Not such a great deal for the rest of us who are forced to carry your road tax burden!

I hope every state soon passes a yearly fee that some have recently passed to get some of the money these road tax cheats owe that they should be required to pay...........

They aren't cheating if they are obeying the law. Don't like the current laws? Work to change them. My employer just installed free charging stations at our work location. They also provided a several thousand dollar incentive to buy an efficient vehicle (pushed the Nissan LEAF). This after moving our location by 35 miles one way for me. Had I taken advantage of this I would be insulted to be called a cheat when I had actually done nothing wrong. Instead I chose the work from home option. I suppose that makes me a cheater in some other way as well. Now bicyclists there are the real cheaters. Eating up our roads and paying nothing.

 

[IFRCFI]

Not such a great deal for the rest of us who are forced to carry your road tax burden!

Not such a great deal for the rest of us who are forced to follow behind your smoke cloud in your pre-clean emissions More diesels than I can list.

It's all about perspective.....

 

[kjclow]

Autoblog has some pretty good shots of it.

http://www.autoblog.com/2015/01/13/volkswagen-cross-coupe-gte-detroit-2015/

Thanks. Not sure I like the slope of the rear hatch. I know it's for aerodynamics, but it looks like it would really cut into the rear volume.

 

[atc98002]

Thanks. Not sure I like the slope of the rear hatch. I know it's for aerodynamics, but it looks like it would really cut into the rear volume.

Of course, that's still a "concept". Have to see how the real world model looks. Since I seldom need all the space back there, especially all the way to the roof, it wouldn't be as big a factor for me.

 

[El Dobro]

Not such a great deal for the rest of us who are forced to follow behind your smoke cloud in your pre-clean emissions More diesels than I can list.
It's all about perspective.....

Kinda like using home heating oil to evade the tax.

 

[VeeDubTDI]

It looks just like the other "4-door coupe SUVs" out there... Range Rover Evoque, BMW X6, the new Mercedes coupe SUV thing, etc. I don't understand this segment of the market at all but they're apparently becoming quite popular.

 

[bhtooefr]

It's basically repackaging the hatchback to be taller and worse in just about every way, whereas previous SUVs were about repackaging the wagon in the same way.

 

[rotarykid]

Not such a great deal for the rest of us who are forced to follow behind your smoke cloud in your pre-clean emissions More diesels than I can list.
It's all about perspective.....

The real polluters are not older not regulated diesels that put out larger PMs that fall harmlessly to the ground in short order after being expelled.

The current real polluters are all of the current unregulated nor measured today gasoline powered engined vehicles that expel Mega-Tons of ultra-fine PM that stay in the air being creating brown clouds that are breathed in for months on end!

Picking on older almost non-existent today or on the current overregulated emissioned almost non-existent today sold light duty diesels that today make up less than 1 % of what is sold today creates no cleaner air! But it does create a burden on these fuel sipping models which prices them out of reach of most and increases their cost as to put it so high as to render them irrelevant today to the fuel savings market for what these stupid current over regulated emissions regs cost!!!!!!!!!!!

Did I mention they do not give one bit of cleaner air for their added cost.........