Volkswagen ID4: The people's car goes electric
Volkswagen ID4 VOLKSWAGEN is so serious about electric cars that it has contemplated changing its name to 'Voltswagen', writes William Scholes. Or at least that's what the company said in a release to US journalists at the end of March, causing them and others to scratch their heads and ask each other, 'They're not serious, are they?' It turned out VW wasn't entirely serious. After initially saying the story was true, they backtracked and said the whole 'Voltswagen' farrago was an April Fool's joke gone wrong. Someone, somewhere in VW has a sense of humour, even if the gag backfired on th...