Volkswagen has revealed that the 2024 ID.4 will get a lift to acceleration—and sure vary—in some variations, versus 2023.

The important thing improve to the 2024 Volkswagen ID.4 lineup is a brand new, higher-power rear drive unit, utilized to each rear-wheel-drive or all-wheel-drive variations with the bigger 82-kwh battery pack. A 62-kwh battery pack can also be supplied. 

Single-motor fashions with that bigger pack now make 282 hp, in line with VW, whereas the AWD model makes 330 hp. That’s up considerably, from 201 hp and 295 hp, respectively, for 2023.

As soon as once more, the ID.4 shall be supplied in Commonplace (or Professional), S, and S Plus trim ranges, with the 62-kwh pack reserved for rear-wheel-drive fashions in Commonplace and S trims. In a overview of the 2023 VW ID.4 Commonplace, Inexperienced Automobile Stories discovered it to have a considerably higher ride-and-handling stability than fashions with the bigger battery—all doubtless a matter of weight. 

2024 Volkswagen ID.4

The ID.4 additionally will get a brand new 12.9-inch show with backlit sliders—sure, nonetheless fussy, haptic-dependent ones—however they’re a part of a revamped management interface and menu system that does look like a strong step ahead, if it’s what’s additionally being utilized to the upcoming ID.7 electrical sedan. Nevertheless, base fashions with the 12.0-inch infotainment system proceed with out these adjustments. Throughout the mannequin line, the shifter has additionally been simplified to a stalk structure to the correct of the steering wheel, relatively than the twist-dependent, podlike affair utilized in 2023 and earlier fashions.

2024 Volkswagen ID.4

2024 Volkswagen ID.4

2024 Volkswagen ID.4

The lineup of wheels has additionally been refreshed for 2024, with ID.4 Commonplace AWD fashions with the bigger 82-kwh battery getting bigger 20-inch alloys. These S fashions additionally get ventilated entrance seats, whereas S Plus fashions now get premium audio.

The 2024 VW ID.4 will proceed to be made in Chattanooga, Tennessee, for the U.S., VW emphasised. All 2023 VW ID.4 fashions are eligible for a $7,500 EV tax credit score, and VW notes that it’s the one overseas automaker to have its battery electrical mannequin be eligible for the complete credit score quantity. 

VW notes that though EPA estimates aren’t but obtainable, it anticipates that the brand new energy unit may also assist ship “an anticipated enchancment to EPA-estimated vary.