2025-05-29
Volkswagen ID.Buzz review: A head-turning EV microbus with unfortunate flaws
While we're still waiting for a true electric minivan to hit the US, VW's ID.Buzz microbus is close. It's a unique family hauler that'll definitely get your neighbors buzzing. No, seriously, during my week of testing I had over a dozen conversations with strangers who were fascinated by the ID.Buzz. One of my neighbors stopped their car dramatically when they saw it, backed up, and just had to give me a thumbs up and praise it as "cool as hell."
My kids were similarly enamored, they loved its cute design and enormous interior space. In many ways, it's the family EV I've been dreaming of — something that could comfortably seat seven people and carry tons of cargo for road trips. Unfortunately, its high $60,000 starting price and relatively lackluster 234 mile range hold i [...]
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Volkswagen recalls 5,700 ID.Buzz electric vans because their seats are too spacious
Volkswagen has recalled 2025 ID.Buzz electric vans, because their rear seats are only configured for two people but are wide enough to fit three. According to the NHTSA note (PDF) found by Electrek, V [...]
2025-02-06
Volkswagen is unveiling a $21,000 entry-level EV in March
Volkswagen is working on an entry-level electric vehicle that will sell for a base price of €20,000 ($21,000). The company has already given its own employees a look at its initial design during a m [...]
2025-04-24
Uber is adding Volkswagen ID. Buzz EVs to its US robotaxi fleet
Uber is expanding its robotaxi ambitions with the help of Volkswagen. The two companies are teaming up to offer autonomous rides in ID. Buzz vehicles. They plan to deploy thousands of the vehicles in [...]
2025-05-30
The Morning After: Apple might skip iOS 19, straight to iOS 26
According to Bloomberg, the next versions of Apple’s operating systems may be labeled by year, starting now. It makes sense. At this point, we’ve got VisionOS 2, watchOS 11, macOS 15, iOS 18 and i [...]
2024-12-30
Huge Volkswagen data leak exposed the locations of 460,000 EV drivers
A Volkswagen software subsidiary called Cariad experienced a massive data leak that left 800,000 EV owners exposed, according to reporting by the German publication Spiegel Netzwelt. The leak allowed [...]
2025-03-07
The Morning After: Buying a good graphics card is an expensive mess
It’s been a weird time to dip into graphics cards, GPUs and… another synonym for the GeForces and Radeons of this world.<br /> AMD has tried for a while to undercut NVIDIA with slightly chea [...]
2025-03-01
Engadget review recap: iPhone 16e, NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti, Sony A1 II and more
As Engadget celebrates its 21st birthday this weekend, we're rounding up all of the recently published reviews from the last few weeks. It's already a busy time for the reviews team, even th [...]