VW's Project Trinity EV Will Be Surprisingly Cheap ++ Despite cutting edge tech, you should be able to afford one. The Volkswagen Project Trinity aims to create a new electric vehicle architecture, a radical production approach for it, and autonomous driving tech. VW CEO Ralf Brandstätter told Germany's Welt am Sonntag newspaper that despite these lofty goals that the model resulting from this work would only cost around 35,000 euros ($42,300 at current exchange rates). Brandstätter told the paper that the vehicle coming out of Project Trinity would be a "dynamic and streamlined car with a length of just over four meters (157.5 inches)." For comparison, a Tesla Model 3 is about 185 inches long (4.699 meters).