- 2025 ID.4 with 82-kwh battery and 291-mile vary begins at $46,520
- VW guarantees “further content material” midyear; unclear if that is along with NACS adapter
- Base 62-kwh variations have not been priced, will come later
Volkswagen has put a worth on some, however not all, U.S. variations of its 2025 VW ID.4 electrical automobile lineup forward of their anticipated arrival at dealerships in February.
The 2025 ID.4 might be provided as soon as once more in a complete of seven trims. ID.4 fashions with the bigger 82-kwh (77 kwh usable) battery pack begin at $46,520 in single-motor rear-wheel-drive kind (together with the $1,425 vacation spot cost) or $50,420 in all-wheel-drive kind. For the previous, that is $220 greater than the equal 2024 mannequin. That is for the 2025 VW ID.4 Professional, which continues to supply an intensive vary of options, comparable to heated seats, heated washer nozzles, heated mirrors, a heated windshield (AWD fashions), dual-zone local weather management, ambient lighting, 45-watt USB-C charging, and an intensive suite of active-safety tech.
Professional S variations of the ID.4 with RWD add adaptive entrance lighting, perforated cooled entrance seats, a panoramic moonroof, an influence tailgate, and 20-inch wheels, and it begins at $51,620, whereas the AWD Professional S model prices $55,520. High S Plus variations are solely provided in AWD kind and value $58,720, including 14-speaker premium audio, heated rear seats, an overhead-view digicam system, 21-inch wheels, upgraded trims, and extra.
That leaves base-battery variations of the 2025 VW ID.4 with the 62-kwh (58 kwh usable) battery pack with no worth, as of but. For 2024 these variations began at $41,160 and have been solely provided with rear-wheel drive, protecting the 201-hp rear motor unit previously used all through the lineup.
The ID.4 has a CCS port, but it surely has stated that its automobiles will acquire Tesla Supercharger entry with a NACS adapter beginning in June or July. Volkswagen famous with Monday’s replace that these base-battery variations may have “later availability,” whereas all fashions will get “further content material beginning midyear,” with particulars and pricing to return later, so it is unclear if these two factors are associated.
2024 Volkswagen ID.4
2024 Volkswagen ID.4
2024 Volkswagen ID.4
VW confirmed final June that for 2025, even base variations of the ID.4 with the 62-kwh battery pack will get a 12.9-inch infotainment system with a revamped interface that cures, from what we might see in a first drive of the 2024 VW ID.4, practically all the interface ills of the ID.4 because it was initially launched. It retains its Apple CarPlay and Android Auto compatibility, but it surely provides improved processing {hardware} to eliminate the latency, a tray of shortcuts, and local weather features that “stick” to the underside of the display screen. Supporting haptic sliders are actually backlit and not laggy.
VW confirmed final June that the 2025 ID.4 could be carried over primarily unchanged from 2024, and it is supplemented with a ChatGPT-based voice assistant. In a primary expertise with that voice interface, what VW is doing with or with out the assistance of AI was not clearly differentiated. The automaker at the moment emphasised solely that no app or activation is required, and “if the request can’t be answered by the Volkswagen system, it’s forwarded anonymously to AI and the acquainted Volkswagen voice responds.”
2024 Volkswagen ID.4
2024 Volkswagen ID.4
2024 Volkswagen ID.4
VW has underscored, fortunately, that ChatGPT and the mixing accomplice Cerence don’t acquire entry to automobile knowledge, and questions and solutions are “deleted instantly to make sure the best potential stage of knowledge safety.” At the moment VW stated that the brand new voice assistant might assist reply general-knowledge questions, however in a CES demo Inexperienced Automobile Studies didn’t discover it any simpler than a Google search—or any extra competent than Siri, which presents a low bar.
As with the extensively revamped 2024 fashions, which arrived earlier this calendar yr, the overwhelming majority of the 2025 Volkswagen ID.4 lineup presents a punchier permanent-magnet rear motor unit permitting 282 hp in single-motor rear-wheel-drive kind, or 335 hp in dual-motor all-wheel-drive kind that features a smaller induction motor in entrance. In the meantime VW boosted ID.4 EPA vary scores to 263 miles for AWD variations or as much as 291 miles for the single-motor model, each with the bigger 82-kwh (77-kwh usable) battery pack.
VW ID.4 gross sales have been down considerably in 2024, initially because of a slight delay earlier than the refreshed mannequin after which because of the recall and stop-sale of 2021-2024 ID.4 fashions—practically 100,000 automobiles—because of faulty door handles. Deliveries resumed final month and manufacturing restarted at its Chattanooga, Tenn., meeting plant.
As of but, the 2025 VW ID.4 faces one more hurdle: It is not but listed as qualifying for the $7,500 EV tax credit score, which is on the time of writing nonetheless legitimate. With the clock doubtlessly ticking on that piece of coverage, and VW confronted with a glut of 2024 fashions it wants to maneuver out from the stop-sale, anticipate reductions on these much-improved 2024 ID.4s as we wait to get the complete 2025 image on this EV mannequin line.
