VW makes headway with its E-Bugster

Volkswagen brought some reporters to Europe recently to talk about green cars, and then spent much of the trip deriding the whole concept of battery vehicles. I drove a prototype electric Golf (with 26.5 kilowatt-hours of Sanyo batteries) in California in 2010, and the car has been making slow progress. A fleet of 20 of these competent but underwhelming buggies are quietly on the road, and production will reportedly begin in 2014. But don't expect a big push-they could be "compliance vehicles" to satisfy California green car regulations. I saw the hybrid version of the Jetta in New York, and found it amazingly cautious-not likely to dent the Prius' domination of the market.

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