The e-Golf is propelled by an 85-kilowatt electric motor integrated with a single speed transmission and differential. The motor produces 199 pound-feet of torque from zero rpm which is sufficient to accelerate the Golf to 62 mph in 11.8 seconds. An air cooled 26.5 kilowatt-hour lithium ion battery pack is mounted under the rear seat and cargo floor and center tunnel. VW claims the Golf can go about 93 miles on a charge.

The consumer fleet test will allow Volkswagen to gather real world data before it launches three production EVs in 2013. The first production model with be the Up blue-e-motion city car followed by the next generation Golf blue-e-motion and finally the Jetta blue-e-motion.

Source: AutoBlog

In Our Opinion...

Volkswagen’s 2010 Rabbit was rebranded as the Golf, and then rebranded as Rabbit…only to be rererererebranded as the 2010 VW Golf. It looks like the Rabbit is dead. Make up your minds VW! This is coming from the same company that once stated : “Volkswagen customers want a relationship with their cars. Names like The Thing, Beetle, Fox, and Rabbit support this.” Frankly, we like Rabbit – who doesn’t love a little fuzzy bunny, or the though of one as you shift into 3rd while speeding onto I-90!? So long, little Rabbit, we hardly knew ye.