Volkswagen Archive

  • VW rolls out folding electric bicycle

    VW rolls out folding electric bicycle

    Volkswagen just announced their latest gadget, the Bik.e - a folding electric bicycle designed to fit in the trunk of your car, in the space currently taken up by your spare tire. With a maximum range of 12.5 miles, I question whether it would be a good spare tire replacement, but I still like it. It is interesting to see a company like Volkswagen get into the electric bicycle concept though.

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  • A look at how the Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Laboratory (VAIL) is changing the world

    A look at how the Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Laboratory (VAIL) is changing the world

    Volkswagen is taking great strides in making the roads safer and remove the dangerous fun from driving by developing fully autonomous vehicles. I had a chance to talk to Dr. Burkhard Huhnke, director of the Volkswagen Electronics Research Laboratory (ERL) about the future of the Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Laboratory (VAIL) at Stanford University and how the technology [...]

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  • Volkswagen ‘launches’ the 2010 GTI on the iPhone with Real Racing GTI game

    Volkswagen ‘launches’ the 2010 GTI on the iPhone with Real Racing GTI game

    To call us a “car blog” would sorta be stretching the truth. Occasionally one of the guys—aka Matt Burns—will do a car story, yeah, but that's primarily because he thinks he's James May. I have no such illusions of grandeur; I'm just sitting at a desk typing things, and writing student loan checks… Before this gets any further off track, the news: Volkswagen has teamed up with the guys behind Real Racing, Firemint, <to “launch” the new 2010 VW GTI. By downloading the app to your iPhone or iPod touch, you can drive around—for free, mind you—the car you wish you owned.

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