Cars GlobalMag October 2013
Cars GlobalMag October features all the new cars presented at the Frankfurt Auto Show. The concept cars presented in Germany deserve a special chapter with a beauty contest of their own. CGM October also features a focus on the new Peugeot 308, Volkswagen e-up! electric cars, the racing spectacle of the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series ... and much more!
Cars GlobalMag October features all the new cars presented at the Frankfurt Auto Show. The concept cars presented in Germany deserve a special chapter with a beauty contest of their own. CGM October also features a focus on the new Peugeot 308, Volkswagen e-up! electric cars, the racing spectacle of the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series ... and much more!
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tric car can thus be quickly identified as such. The<br />
array of bespoke features includes the LED daytime<br />
running light’s new signature look, aerodynamically<br />
developed alloy wheels and an interior in a bright<br />
and friendly design. The standard e-up! equipment<br />
also includes applications for the maps + more infotainment/navigation<br />
system programmed specifically<br />
for e-mobility, a radio/CD system, hands-free<br />
phone function, four doors, heated windscreen, air<br />
conditioning and heated seats.<br />
Ready to drive<br />
Although the electric motor is indeed on, it produces<br />
neither noise nor vibrations. And as for the rev<br />
counter, there is none. The e-up! signals its readiness<br />
to its driver via routines specially designed<br />
for the purpose. When the car is started and ready<br />
to go, the speedometer needle pegs to the end<br />
stop once and then returns to the home position.<br />
The illumination of the indicators on the e-up! instrument<br />
panel is also switched on, regardless of<br />
whether the car’s outside lights are on or not. At<br />
the same time the battery charge indicator rotates<br />
to the current level and the power indicator moves<br />
from ‘Off’ to ‘0’. Last but not least, the word ‘Ready’<br />
appears in the panel’s central display, backed<br />
up by an audible signal.<br />
e-Golf: coming soon<br />
Both agile and efficient, the e-Golf offers a low power<br />
consumption figure of 12.7 kW/100 km. Thanks<br />
to a particularly innovative overall technological<br />
system, improved aerodynamics (cD = 0.281) and<br />
perfected rolling resistance the e-Golf will be cruising<br />
as of spring 2014 (when the European launch<br />
begins) extremely economically around the cities<br />
of the world (launches in Asia and North America<br />
will follow in late 2014 / early 2015) with an energy<br />
costs of around €3.28 per 100 km (calculated in<br />
Germany, as of July 31, <strong>2013</strong>: €0.258 per kWh.)<br />
The very well equipped four-door e-Golf is recognisable<br />
at once by the aerodynamically optimised<br />
‘Astana’ alloy wheels and and by its LED headlights.<br />
Another striking feature is the bottom<br />
strip across the radiator grille. As on the Golf GTI,<br />
but in this case blue rather than red, this strip carries<br />
on into the headlights – an element that, like the<br />
‘Think Blue.’ campaign, consciously underlines the<br />
electrically powered Golf’s environmentally friendly<br />
efficiency.<br />
The e-Golf is powered by an 85 kW1 / 115 PS1<br />
electric motor. From a standing start the synchronous<br />
motor (internally called the EEM 85) develops<br />
an impressive maximum torque of 270 Nm. Top<br />
performance figures are the result: the Volkswagen<br />
reaches a speed of 60 km/h within 4.2 seconds,<br />
and after just 10.4 seconds the e-Golf is up to
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