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“Volkswagen's take on the all-electric family car is, as you'd expect, an extremely convincing one”
Good stuff
Feels like a Golf, drives like one too
Bad stuff
Useless if you're regularly commuting from Penzance to Portsmouth
Overview
What is it?
The first-ever Golf to entirely do away with that old-school notion of an internal combustion engine. The e-Golf is propelled solely by an electric motor sending 114bhp to the front wheels, fed by a 24.2kW lithium ion battery tucked down between the axles. Apart from that, this is very much a Golf, underpinned by the familiar MQB bits underneath.
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What's the verdict?
“The e-Golf is an EV that works for most of us, most of the time. A truly convincing electric car.”
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