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Joachim Becker
It looks elegant and streamlined, the electric Tiguan with the gently sloping roof. The new ID.5 is already available at VW dealers as a demonstration vehicle. So you can order it, but you won’t get it any time soon. Volkswagen is as good as sold out with electric cars in the current year, CEO Herbert Diess recently admitted. In Western Europe alone, the brand still has to process 300,000 customer orders for Stromer. This will not make it any easier to catch up with Tesla. The world’s leading e-car brand handed over 300,000 battery cars to customers in the first quarter. Exactly as much as VW would like to deliver. In fact, the Wolfsburg managed less than 100,000 – and the gap is getting bigger.