Volkswagen plans to put its cheapest electric car yet on the market in 2027, with a starting price of around €20,000, roughly $22,500 at Electrek’s conversion. The car is the production version of the ID. EVERY1, a four-seat city car that Volkswagen first showed as a concept in March 2025. Electrek reported the plan again on Oct. 22, 2026, framing it as a 2027 launch.
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The car would sit below every electric Volkswagen on sale in Europe today. It is shorter and cheaper than the ID. Polo, which already opened the brand’s push into small, affordable electric cars.
What Volkswagen has said about the ID. EVERY1
Volkswagen’s March 5, 2025 world-premiere release says the company plans to start building the production version in 2027 at a starting price of about €20,000. The release gives the concept’s length as 3,880 millimeters, a range of at least 250 kilometers, a newly developed electric motor of 70 kW, or 95 PS, and a top speed of 130 km/h for the concept vehicle. Thomas Schäfer, chief executive of the Volkswagen brand, called the ID. EVERY1 the last piece of the puzzle in the brand’s push to offer the widest model selection in the volume segment.
The company’s German-language version of the release carries the same figures, and adds that the car uses the electric drive kit shared with the ID. 2all, the earlier name for the ID. Polo, and the ID. GTI Concept as part of the Electric Urban Car Family. Seating is for four, with 305 liters of luggage space. Volkswagen’s description of the concept as a preview of an entry-level electric model is also a reminder that the company calls the 2025 car a study, so details such as the final design, battery and equipment may differ when the production version arrives.
How the new car fits below the ID. Polo and ID. Cross
Electrek’s Oct. 22 report describes a car smaller and cheaper than the ID. Polo, at 3,880 millimeters long, between the former Up! at 3,600 and the ID. Polo at 4,053. Volkswagen has not confirmed a production name in the material reviewed. Electrek expects it to be sold as the ID. Up!, and also expects a battery similar to the 37 kWh lithium iron phosphate pack in the base ID. Polo and ID. Cross, which Electrek calls its own expectation and not a Volkswagen confirmation.
The price ladder explains why the new model matters to Volkswagen. As Electrek has reported, the ID. Polo Trend with the 37 kWh battery costs €24,995 in Germany, with a WLTP range of 334 kilometers, and the ID. Cross starts at €27,995. An around-€20,000 car would open a gap of roughly €5,000 below the cheapest ID. Polo. Electrek’s Oct. 12 report says Volkswagen’s Electric Urban Car Family, which entered series production in June, has drawn nearly 150,000 orders.
The ID. Cross also began taking orders in the week of Oct. 19, according to Electrek’s coverage of the order opening. That report said the car shares the MEB+ platform with the ID. Polo, entered production in September at the Pamplona, Spain, plant, and offers up to 324 kilometers of WLTP range with the 37 kWh pack. Schäfer called the ID. Cross a “true Volkswagen.”
What is still unconfirmed for the 2027 launch
Several details remain open. Electrek said Volkswagen has not confirmed a production site; a Spanish report cited by Electrek suggests the car could be built in Spain, where the ID. Polo and Cupra Raval are made at Martorell and the ID. Cross and Skoda Epiq in Navarra. Volkswagen has not published a final production name or an on-sale date within 2027, and the figure of around €20,000 is a starting price for Europe, not a promise that every trim will cost that much.
The car is also not coming to American buyers. Electrek reported that the model will not be sold in the United States, where Volkswagen plans to launch the ID. Tiguan in 2027 to replace the ID.4. For European buyers, the timeline is that Volkswagen’s own release points to production starting in 2027, and the ID. Polo and ID. Cross are already in series production and taking orders, which gives shoppers a way to price the step down.
Electrek said the entry car is one of nine new models Volkswagen plans to launch by 2027, and framed it as the company’s answer to low-priced Chinese rivals such as BYD. That framing is Electrek’s, not Volkswagen’s. Schäfer’s own words, in the 2025 release, put the emphasis on range of choice: the company wants every customer to find the right car with the right drive system, including affordable all-electric entry-level mobility. For buyers watching prices, the open question is whether the final car holds to the around-€20,000 mark once it reaches showrooms, since Volkswagen has described that figure as a starting price and has not published equipment levels or battery details for the production model.
This article was produced with the assistance of AI and reviewed by Morning Overview editors prior to publication.
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