11.7.2019. Volkswagen is the success story of the ID.R two more chapters added: The lap record for electrically-powered vehicles on the Nürburgring-Nordschleife, the absolute track record at the Goodwood Festival of Speed followed.
Again, the impression could be made for the efficiency of the electric technology. However, the ID.R is more than a record holder. He is sporting a harbinger of the ID. Family – the purely electrically-powered production vehicles starting in 2020 on the market. In this Interview, Dr. Frank Welsch, Board member for development at Volkswagen passenger Cars, talks about the importance of records for the electric mobility Offensive of the brand.
Content
- Dr. Welsch, what is the significance of the two most recent records of the ID.R for you?
- How to grade the performance of the ID.R in the overall importance for Volkswagen?
- Motorsport is considered to be a testing ground for the technology of production vehicles. What is the role of the record-breaking drives of the ID to play in this context.R?
- The technology worked transfer in the reverse direction?
- What’s next for the ID.R?
Dr. Welsch, what is the significance of the two most recent records of the ID.R for you?
The best times on the Nürburgring Nordschleife and at the Goodwood Festival of Speed are a further confirmation of the excellent work of the entire Volkswagen Motorsport team and make me personally proud. The electric drive ring in the case of series-production vehicles in a new Era. Volkswagen is making with the front of the market launch of the ID. Model family is a major contribution to this. The ID.R, I see this connection as an important Ambassador.
How to grade the performance of the ID.R in the overall importance for Volkswagen?
With the ID.R, we have repeatedly shown how powerful Volkswagen cars with electric drive are already. Starting in the year 2020, we want to bring with the ID. Models of a whole product family of all-electric vehicles on the market. As a sporty flagship of this future series models of the ID connects.R the technical expertise of the electric drive with the emotions and the fascination of Motorsports.
Motorsport is considered to be a testing ground for the technology of production vehicles. What is the role of the record-breaking drives of the ID to play in this context.R?
First of all, the entire development of the ID.R the transfer of technology between Volkswagen Motorsport and the various departments of the series development at Volkswagen led. This concerned especially the area of the electric drive. The motor-athletes have benefited, for example, from the Know-how of the series development in the construction of battery cells and the Handling of high-voltage components in the vehicle.
The technology worked transfer in the reverse direction?
Absolutely. The series developers, for example, have followed with great interest, as the Motorsport-Team with the theme of a fast-charging technology deals, as components of the 3-D printer for the body of ID.R has used and with which strategy, it optimizes energy output and recuperation during the journey. Even if we have vehicles in our series –for example, the energy management in everyday life, quite different requirements than the ID.R, which is moving at the absolute Limit, the basic task is the same: to optimally use the available energy.
What’s next for the ID.R?
Already in September of the next exciting project is related to the Tianmen Mountain in China on the program. In China, as a mystical force mountain, there is still no record time. Therefore, we want to set a target time and this is the way in which for us is very important market for our competence in the development of electric drive technology underscore. By 2028, we would like to produce half of our planned 22 million electric cars in the people’s Republic. But in Europe, we still have a few ideas, such as the ID.R as a highly emotional race cars, the dissemination of electro-technology and the introduction of the ID.3 and the further ID. Models from the year 2020 can support.
Volkswagen ID.R (Photo: Volkswagen)
