Little by little, we learn more details about what the future promises: an authentic revolution Releases Volkswagen in the coming years. The Ninth Generation Golf It’ll be a talking point until it hits the streets—something that points to the year 2028.
The popular German compact car will be responsible for the introduction of the new modular platform SSP of the Volkswagen Group for electric cars, which will replace the current MEB. This means, as we already know, that the next generation of Golfs will leave combustion mechanics behind and be exclusively electric.
The future electric Golf will coexist with the rest of the ID family and position itself in size between the ID.3 and the forthcoming ID.2. Also, the GTI and R badges are retained for the most powerful versions. As always, the Golf will be the cornerstone of Volkswagen, this time more than ever.
VW Golf Mk9: Coming in 2028
A mid-cycle update is still pending for the eighth generation of the Volkswagen Golf. After that, the German car will change completely, reinvent itself, and mark the beginning of a new era for the brand with technologies that will completely change it.
This is mainly due to the SSP platform, on which the Golf will debut. One of the keys to this strategy is that the work Volkswagen is already doing with this platform will make it possible for significant cost reductions, especially compared to the first MEB-based electric wave.
The future ninth-generation VW Golf, already electric, will have one 800-volt electrical architecture and will have those new unit-cell batteries from the VW group. On the one hand, you can charge much faster with a power higher than the 175 kW of current models. already talked about it charging from 10 to 80% in just 12 minutes, compared to the current 35 minutes.
On the other hand, the new unified cell technology will reduce production costs, so that The final price of future electric cars like the Golf 9 will be much more similar to that of current combustion cars than those of the ID.3 and Co. The cost savings could be 30% compared to the current MEB platform and even up to 50% for smaller vehicles.
These batteries will make it possible to Standardize battery production, which “unites” all types of possible chemicals in the same cell format, regardless of which segment they are destined for. For example, the smallest cars would choose lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cells, while the largest electric cars would use batteries with a higher nickel content to optimize their performance.
The future Volkswagen Golf will also bring with it New software that, among other things, will enable the integration of autonomous driving functions in level 4. This would make it possible to have systems where human intervention would not be necessary, provided, of course, that the regulations allow it.
There are three pillars on which Volkswagen wants to build the future Golf: “stability, likeability, and enthusiasm”, while still being recognizable as a Golf. VW chief designer Andreas Mindt is aware that it will be necessary. Carry the DNA of our icons into the future. The days of the lineage pursued by the current ID family could be numbered once the SSP platform, initially expected for 2026 but delayed, springs into action.
