Will the Volkswagen ID. Tiguan and other MEB+ vehicles get a battery of ~95 (90) kWh in 2027? With a WLTP range of 700+ miles?

Our reader, Mr. Marcin, noticed an interesting article on Volkswagen’s British website. The range of the VW ID. Tiguan R-Line is set to reach as much as 443 miles, or 713 kilometers, by 2027. This is all thanks to a battery with a capacity of 90 kWh, and since Volkswagen lists net capacities, we can expect around 95 (90) kWh or 96 (90) kWh. Charging this battery from 10% to 80% is said to take only 20 minutes.

Is the new VW ID. Tiguan with a 90 kWh battery on the way?

Let’s start with range: it reaches a maximum of 713 WLTP units (illustration below, “443 miles”; source), 609 kilometers in urban or urban-suburban mode, 428 kilometers at 120 km/h, or 328 kilometers at 140 km/h [preliminary calculations by Elektrowozu editorial team]. 428 kilometers on highways means over three and a half hours of driving, which is long enough to warrant stopping briefly to stretch one’s legs. Additionally, the current VW ID. Tiguan has a 77 kWh battery, meaning with an 82 (77) kWh battery, its range is a maximum of 605 WLTP units. The new model is therefore 17.85 percent larger, which fits almost perfectly with a usable battery capacity of 90 kWh.

The charging time for this battery from 10 to 80 percent is set at 20 minutes, compared to the current ID. Tiguan which takes 26 or 29 minutes to charge — with a larger battery requiring an even longer time at the charger. Reducing this time from 29 to 20 minutes represents a significant improvement of -31 percent, allowing Volkswagen to compete with Hyundai’s models (18 minutes) and other manufacturers in the industry, aside from perhaps the best models from China. Increasing energy density while boosting charging speed is a major achievement, as these aspects usually have to be traded off against each other. It should be noted that the cells in the 82 (77) kWh battery are already aged and have long needed modernization.

Note from Volkswagen’s UK page. Automatically translated using DeepL, with our annotations.

The most important issue now is the wheelbase of the VW ID series. The Tiguana has a wheelbase of 2.77 meters. Volkswagen previously used a battery pack with a capacity of 91 (86) kWh, which provided around 700 WLTP miles of range in the Volkswagen ID.7, but with a wheelbase of 2.97 meters—20 centimeters longer. With a wheelbase of 2.77 meters, the maximum capacity was 84 (79) kWh. If this version isn’t extended, vehicles on the MEB+ platform with longer wheelbases (VW ID. Buzz, Skoda Peaq, VW ID.7) may receive battery packs with a total capacity exceeding 100 kWh.

We managed to avoid the R-Line version during the auto show in Paris (photo and video below). It’s possible this is exactly the version we’re describing, namely the VW ID. Tiguan 90 kWh. Unfortunately, we couldn’t take a look inside the displayed unit—it was either crowded or currently part of an official presentation; in this case, we recommend relying on other reports:

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