The Volkswagen Business Autos launched teaser renderings for a brand new plug-in-hybrid California idea camper. The complete debut is on August 25 on the Caravan Salon present in Düsseldorf, Germany. The manufacturing model will arrive in 2024.
The California idea makes use of the lengthy variant of the Multivan as a place to begin. It contains a pop-up roof including 6.5 toes (two meters) of top when deployed. The teaser picture reveals an extending awning on each side.
A second photograph reveals a management panel for the thermostat, lights, and cooling field. That is the one glimpse on the cabin in these teasers.
The Multivan is on the market with an eHybrid PHEV powertrain. It makes use of a 1.4-liter turbocharged four-cylinder and electrical motor making a complete of 215 horsepower (160 kilowatts). The ten.4-kilowatt-hour battery offers as much as 30 miles of electrical vary. Nevertheless, it is not clear whether or not that is the powertrain the brand new California would use.
“We need to develop the vary across the enterprise with our tenting fashions – and thus supply our clients that particular California feeling. These embrace digital companies for the Cali Neighborhood, utterly new companies to enrich the acquisition of a automobile… but additionally the present automotive presentation of the brand new California primarily based on the Multivan,” VW Business Autos CEO Carsten Intra mentioned through the division’s annual press convention in March.
VW additionally plans to construct a California variant of the ID. Buzz. The electrical camper is meant to reach in 2025. No official particulars can be found but, however we might anticipate it to have widespread motorhome options like a sleeping space and a small kitchen. Aftermarket corporations in Europe are engaged on choices like this, too.
The ID. Buzz will arrive in america in 2024. The model within the US has an extended wheelbase than the usual model accessible in Europe. The passenger model has room for as much as seven folks, however five- and six-occupant variants are additionally coming.
Two batteries can be found: one with 82 kilowatt hours (77 kWh usable) and one other with 91 kWh (85 kWh usable). The usual powertrain makes 282 horsepower and 413 pound-feet, and the GTX grade provides all-wheel drive and 335 hp.
The California title for the motorhome model of the VW Transporter premiered on the Caravan Salon 35 years in the past. Since then, VW Business Autos has remodeled 260,000 of them. There have been 4 generations since then.
