Volkswagen sets three EV world records over 794-mile road trip in ‘most efficient near-production’ car — and it could be the battery breakthrough that EVs need
- The Mission Efficiency project channels the ultra-efficient 313mpg XL1
- It is based on the same basic architecture as the new ID Polo
- Concept dramatically improves the efficiency of the production vehicle
Volkswagen has set three world records with what it calls the "most efficient near-production electric car" to date. Its ID Polo-based Mission Efficiency registered a staggering average battery consumption of 6.89 kWh/100 km during a 794 mile (or 1,278km) road trip from Wolfsburg, via Poznań in Poland and Olomouc in the Czech Republic, before ending in the Austrian capital of Vienna.
For those more used to miles per kilowatt-hour, VW’s ultra-efficient vehicle clocked 8.27 miles per kilowatt hour (expressed as mpkWh) over the 794-mile drive — and up to 9.02mpkWh when discounting the energy lost while charging.
To achieve this, the Mission Efficiency vehicle first had to set a world record in the field of aerodynamics, achieving a drag...
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