More range, more power, and more like a regular, gasoline Golf than ever, the 2017 Volkswagen e-Golf is an EV you could forget runs on electricity. VW’s sole electric car in the US – which it currently only offers in ten states – it’s the vanguard of the automaker’s big electrification push due in 2020, when a production version of the I.D. concept will hit the streets. That promises can’t-miss-it design, range to rival the Bolt EV, and a whole new platform underneath. For now, though, the e-Golf is more about coaxing VW loyalists into something more surreptitiously green.

Mildly confusingly, the new e-Golf will be sold as a model year 2017 car, despite the remaining new Golf models that will follow it later in the year being model year 2018. It’s actually a calculated play around emissions standards and incentives on VW’s part, trying to squeeze the car in to make the most of what could be the last year some of those incentives apply.
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