ŠKODA VISION E: Experience the future up close

Might be updated, but if you don't see the difference, you're not alone. A new paint job would be nice. 

ŠKODA is making the mobility of the future a permanent feature of its everyday life. E-vehicles play a crucial role in the company’s global growth strategy. In addition to plug-in hybrid vehicles, ŠKODA will also have five fully electrically powered cars in its range by 2025. From that point onwards, one in every four cars sold by the brand worldwide should be a plug-in hybrid or have a purely electric drive system. All of the ŠKODA models, which will also be zero-emission in the future, will impress with the typical qualities of the brand: with a long range, easy­to­use charging technology and outstanding economic efficiency. ŠKODA makes electromobility ‘Simply Clever’.

“One of the four pillars of our 2025 Strategy is the electrification of our fleet. The ŠKODA SUPERB with plug-in hybrid drive will be launched as early as 2019. Then in 2020 this will be followed by our first purely electric model, into which we are offering a very concrete insight in Frankfurt with the ŠKODA VISION E,” said ŠKODA CEO Bernhard Maier

In parallel, ŠKODA is developing its own vehicle concepts for entirely electric mobility based on the modular electric car platform. This development is running in parallel to the implementation of additional levels of automated driving in production. In the future, the drivers will be able to transfer an ever-increasing number of driving responsibilities to their vehicle. The electric vehicles developed by ŠKODA will have the basic architecture required to integrate these functions, which will be usable in the medium and long term, into their in-car electronics.

The automotive industry finds itself in the middle of a major process of change. New business segments are opening up for which ŠKODA has products and solutions ready, is developing them further or producing fresh designs. One field of activity is mobility services. The business areas which will benefit from this development include car sharing, the provision of on-demand mobility and numerous services directly linked to individual mobility requirements. In these areas too, ŠKODA has the potential to precisely identify customer requirements and fulfil them with clear, well-conceived and reliable solutions.

At the IAA, ŠKODA is presenting its first purely electric concept car. The ŠKODA VISION E can drive autonomously at level 3. The design of the concept car ŠKODA VISION E exhibits distinctive features of ŠKODA’s new design language for electric vehicles. The opposed-opening doors and four rotating individual seats are an arresting sight. There are no wing mirrors anymore – cameras relay what is happening around the vehicle on monitors. The ŠKODA VISION E forgoes B-pillars for an even greater amount of space. In comparison to the vehicle from the world premiere in Shanghai, the front has been further developed and now appears even more characterful. The generous amount of space, state-of-the-art assistance systems as well as numerous ‘Simply Clever’ features are typical for ŠKODA.