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Road Tests
Two Independent Tests, One Number: The VW ID.3 Neo Really Does Use 15 kWh/100km
German and British testers put the 58 kWh ID.3 Neo through separate real-world runs days apart and arrived at nearly identical efficiency. That single figure reshapes which battery you should buy.
Battery Technology
A thousand frames a second: Fraunhofer's X-ray rig watches a large EV cell fail
Fraunhofer EMI and PowerCo can image a large prismatic cell at 1,000 frames per second during thermal runaway, bringing a technique previously used at specialist facilities closer to routine industrial testing.
New Launches
VW ID. Polo pairs sharp road manners with a 392 km motorway estimate
Volkswagen's electric supermini enters general UK sale on 10 September from £23,945. Independent consumption testing points to about 392 km at 120 km/h, while the production charging peak is 105 kW.