2020 Volkswagen e-Golf Has Lower EPA Range And Efficiency Than 2019

Sometimes you can lose two miles of range in a brand new car and you even don't know why.

By: Mark Kane

Oct 31, 2019 at 4:31pm ET

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The 2020 Volkswagen e-Golf recently was listed on the EPA site and surprisingly it received lower range and efficiency ratings than in the previous few years, despite us not hearing about any battery/motor changes.

The previous rating was:

range: 125 miles (201 km)
combined: 283 Wh/mile
city: 267 Wh/mile
highway: 304 Wh/mile

The new 2020 rating is:

range: 123 miles (198 km) (down 1.6%)
combined: 298 Wh/mile (up 5.3%)
city: 276 Wh/mile (up 3.4%)
highway: 324 Wh/mile (up 6.6%)

* efficiency includes charging losses

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2020 Volkswagen e-Golf EPA rating

The question is what happened to the e-Golf that efficiency decreased a little bit? A VW spokesman told CarsDirect that nothing has changed and suggested that maybe EPA changed calculations, but there is no info about that either (other models 2020/2019 seem to be rated the same).

Hat Tip To Joe from CarsDirect.com!!!