General News
15 September, 2024
electric vw’s aussie lap
VOLKSWAGEN Australia is celebrating 70 years in Australia and marking the start of its fully-electric range by writing its name across the nation in a Guiness World Record attempt at the biggest GPS image made by a vehicle.
Volkswagen is collaborating with Rainer Zeitlow, holder of multiple endurance driving records. Driving a left-hand drive ID.4, he is attempting to inscribe ‘70 years of VeeDub’ ‘written’ across several states.
He will then ‘frame’ the image by circumnavigating the entire country, a seven-week, 33,000km epic trip during which Volkswagen’s game-changing electric SUV will be introduced to customers and hardcore “VeeDub” fans enroute.
Mr Zeitlow is now more than 26 days into his trek, covering more than 20,000km and 7500km ‘drawn’ as the GPS signature, as well as charging the car 76 times.
Volkswagen passenger vehicles director Michal Szaniecki said the “immense scope of this extraordinary journey reflects the ambition shared by all of VGA’s brands for electro mobility”.
“Submitting a standard ID.4 to a ‘torture test’ of this scale tells customers that Volkswagen offers the highest quality, durability, range capability and a nationwide network to support them,” he said.
Production has started for Australia’s initial allocation of its first four Volkswagen battery electric vehicles: ID.4 Pro, ID.5 GTX, ID.Buzz and Buzz Cargo.
Volkswagen Group Australia managing director Karsten Seifert said a “new chapter has begun, not only for the brand, but for all of Volkswagen Group Australia brands”. “VGA will become the foremost European supplier of BEVs,” he said. “We will soon go from four models at present to four times that”.
