VW will share its MEB platform components with yet another automaker, which plans five electric SUVs. Here's what they promise.
will be used in Mahindra's purpose-built EV platform dubbed INGLO, which will underpin not one but five electric SUVs. The vehicles will use Volkswagen's battery systems and unified cells, as well as electric motors.
The Indian automaker revealed the first concept images of these models in the UK this week, with the five models slated to be split up among two brands owned by Mahindra. Three models will appear under the BE brand, badged BE.05, BE.07, and BE.09, following a nomenclature not too dissimilar from Volkswagen's ID. prefixes. Two additional electric SUVs will be produced under the XUV brand, badged XUV.E8 and XUV.E9.Mahindra revealed a schematic of the models' INGLO platform, indicating the models will be powered by batteries ranging in size from 60 to 80 kWh, which will be capable of 175-kW fast-charging speeds promising an 80% state of charge in 30 minutes.
A glimpse of the interior reveals an infotainment widescreen stretching across most of the dash, in a likely two-screen pairing now favored by some automakers, but also a traditional gear shifter in lieu of a rotary knob or a push-button setup."The MEB Electric Platform and its components are key to affordable sustainable mobility around the globe," said Thomas Schmall, Volkswagen Group Board of Management member for Technology and CEO of Volkswagen Group Components.
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