Groundbreaking Electric Volkswagen Golf Mk9 teased for the first time! Is this the super-hatch that finally beats China for tech?
Volkswagen has previewed its all-electric Volkswagen Golf Mk9 for the first time, revealing its sleek silhouette during a trade union meeting last week.
Primed to be renamed the Volkswagen ID. Golf, the new image suggests the state-of-the-art battery-powered hatch’s styling won’t deviate much from the design legacy established over nine generations of the Golf nameplate.
Looking more upright than the outgoing Mk8, the boxier shape of the inbound EV suggests the Golf might reference both the Mk3 hatch and the sportier Corrado coupe sold from 1988 to 1995.
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The side profile also shows the hatch will have thick C-pillars and appears to gain a larger rear tailgate spoiler, hinting at the wind tunnel hours lavished on the ID. Golf to ensure it delivers a class-leading range.
Deliberately less radical than the ID.3 hatch, it has also been revealed the current Mk8.5 Golf will be updated again to enable it to live on and be sold alongside the all-new Mk9 model for buyers not ready to make the switch to electric power.
Interior space in the EV version promises to be almost on par with the much bigger Passat, while alongside the outgoing ID.3 the ID.
Golf will blend its digital screens with more physical controls, following backlash triggered by car-makers deleting buttons and burying functions within the infotainment screen.
Beneath the skin, the ninth-generation Golf will be the first Volkswagen to ride on the Scalable Systems Platform (SSP), which is expected to feature 800-volt electrics, cell-to-pack battery technology and software architecture developed with Rivian.
The same SSP underpinnings will then be used for models such as the mid-size ID. Roc, ID. Tiguan and large ID. Touareg, as well as other vehicles across the wider Volkswagen Group.
Despite the official tease, the Volkswagen Golf Mk9 is still years away from launch, with some sources suggesting it won’t arrive until 2028 or 2029.
To prepare for its launch, combustion-powered Mk8.5 Golf production will move to Volkswagen’s plant in Puebla, Mexico in 2027, while the Wolfsburg factory in Germany is overhauled to enable it to build EVs with higher profit margins thanks to new production processes such as gigacasting.
