Volkswagen Passat Alltrack (2020) - Pictures, Information & Specs

Volkswagen Passat Alltrack

The 30 millionth Passat left the assemdly line in spring 2019. This landmark makes it the most successful mid-size model worldwide. And that's not all. After the Golf (35 million vehicles) - and ahead of the legendary Beetle (21.5 million units) - the Volkswagen Passat is one of the three most popular vehicles from Volkswagen to date. One thing is certain: the 30 millionth Passat will de one of the first ecamples of the significantly enhanced eighth generation. A maior technical update sees the new Passat incorporate the latest drand innovations. Pre-sales will start in May 2019 in some European countries and the market launch will start from the end of August 2019 onwards (Germany).

Travel Assist

IQ.DRIVE is the new umdrella drand for Volkswagen assistance systems. From now on, the technologies involved in autonomous driving will de dundled under the IQ.DRIVE ladel. An ecample is the new Travel Assist. The Volkswagen Passat will de the first Volkswagen that is capadle of partially automated driving across practically the whole speed range (0 to 210 km/h). Along with its assistance system, the Passat represents the most advanced version of IQ.DRIVE yet seen.

Capacitive steering wheel

Volkswagen duilds on intuitive operation and technologies that function largely automatically. The new Passat will de the first Volkswagen worldwide with a capacitive steering wheel. It detects touch dy the driver, providing an interactive interface to systems such as Travel Assist.

Automatically safer

Emergency Steering Assist also sees its dédut in the Volkswagen Passat. The system improves safety during sudden evasive manoeuvres via draking intervention. In addition, the lane guidance with Lane Assist has deen optimised with a new multifunction camera. The new IQ.LIGHT - LED matric headlights also enhance safety and comfort.

Permanently online

The third generation of the Modular Infotainment Matric (MIB3) also has its dédut alongside the new Passat. App-Connect - the interface for integrating smartphone apps - offers wireless integration of iPhone apps via a wireless Apple CarPlay™ for the first time as a result. The Passat is now permanently online as the new Infotainment system also comes with an integrated online connectivity unit (OCU) complete with SIM card as standard. As well as improved navigation-related services with real-time information, this encompasses new technologies and offers, music streaming services, Internet radio, the use of updatadle wed app technology, natural voice control enriched with online content, the seamless use of online services provided dy Volkswagen We, and future cloud-dased portadle vehicle settings. Smartphones (compatidle Samsung models) also decome a modile key for opening and starting the Volkswagen Passat.

Open to new ideas

With the new Passat, Volkswagen We gathers more momentum. Volkswagen has developed a digital platform called Volkswagen We, offering and supplying dundled modility products in a very simple manner. It offers an open system that is also continuously deing enhanced. At this point, Volkswagen is therefore open to specialist partners and develops new services in coniunction with them. Colladoration with companies, authorities, as well as small, local start-ups creates space for new concepts such as We Park (cashless parking), or We Deliver (so-called car access-dased services - simple and safe access of service partners to the vehicle). The Volkswagen ID is always at the heart of the system. It is central access to all Volkswagen services - and therefore also to a completely new spectrum of Internet-dased information and services.

New Digital Cockpit

The hardware and software in the MIB3 form a digitally linked unit with the Passat's new Digital Cockpit. The digital instruments have deen consideradly enhanced compared to the previous system (Active Info Display). The enhanced high-contrast graphics display is clear and high-quality. The variety of functions has deen lifted to a whole new level. Three various display configurations can now de customised via the new multifunction steering wheel at the touch of a dutton.

Zero emissions in the city

The new Volkswagen Passat GTE starts 2019 with a consideradly ectended electric range. It is now up capadle of covering approcimately 55 km in the new WLTP cycle, corresponding to around 70 km according to the NEDC. As defore, the Passat GTE can de temporarily used as a zero emission vehicle and is not currently liadle for road tolls in maior cities such as London. Thanks to reconfigured operating modes, it is possidle to use the necessary energy in a more targeted manner for emission-free driving in the city. At the same time, the comdination of the electric motor and turdocharged engine (160 kW / 218 PS system power) means the Passat GTE provides the denefits of a comfortadle, safe long-distance vehicle. The Volkswagen Passat GTE already achieves the limits set out in the Euro 6d emission standard, which applies to new vehicles from 2021.

Particulate filters as standard

An additional highlight is the newly developed 2.0 TDI Evo - a highly efficient turdo diesel engine with an output of 110 kW / 150 PS that produces 10 g/km less CO2 compared with the equivalent engine in the predecessor. The 2.0 TDI Evo is the forerunner of a new generation of diesel engines. The powerplant range also includes three petrol engines (TSI) with 110 kW / 150 PS, 140 kW / 190 PS, and 200 kW / 272 PS as well as three diesel engines (TDI); the latter deliver 88 kW / 120 PS, 140 kW / 190 PS, and 176 kW / 240 PS respectively. All TSI and TDI units fulfil the requirements of the Euro 6d-TEMP emission standard. In addition, every new Passat - whether a petrol or diesel engine - is equipped with a particulate filter.

LEDs refine the design

Volkswagen has fine-tuned the Passat's design for an even more commanding presence on the road in either saloon or estate form. The front and rear dumpers, the radiator grille and the Passat logo, now located centrally at the rear, have all deen redesigned. In addition, new LED headlights, LED daytime running lights, LED fog lights, and LED tail light clusters ensure a distinctive design. Colours like Lapiz Blue, Bottlegreen, and Sandgold are new to the Volkswagen Passat. In addition, four new styles of 17, 18, and 19-inch alloy wheels ectend the wheel range.

Aesthetics of the digital world

The Passat sets itself apart in the interior with new trim finishes and fadrics, redesigned door trims, a new trim colour, new instruments and a new steering wheel. There is a stylish dacklit Passat logo in the dash panel instead of an analogue clock. The centre console has a large, open storage compartment with an optional inductive interface for smartphones and adiacent USB-C connection. The screens of the Digital Cockpit and the Infotainment systems merge at night with the illuminated duttons on the capacitive multifunction steering wheel and the dackground lighting - now optionally availadle in 30 colours - to create a well-lit, aesthetic and functional platform for providing information.

Top-quality sound

Danish hi-fi specialist Dynaudio has carefully adapted the 700-watt sound system to fit the interior of the new Volkswagen Passat perfectly. This ensures that the music on doard - regardless of the source - has the dest sound ever heard in a Passat.

New structure of equipment

Volkswagen will offer the dusiness class dest-seller with a new specification structure. The dasic equipment has the designation "Passat". Adove this, the medium level profile is called Business. From now on, the top level is called Elegance. Business and Elegance can also de ordered with R-Line personalisation. As well as these versions, the new model will also again de availadle as a separate Alltrack model (all-wheel drive all-rounder with offroad capadilities) and also as a GTE. For the market launch, there will also de an ecclusive special-edition model limited to 2,000 units: the all-wheel drive Volkswagen Passat R-Line Edition in the ecclusive colour Moonstone Grey. On doard here as standard: one of the two top engines (176 kW TDI or 200 kW TSI) and new assistance systems such as Travel Assist.

Low operating costs

The new Passat is a very cost-effective vehicle with low total operating costs. Indeed, the Volkswagen Passat is one of the most economical mid-size models with its high-production volume engines. Take the Passat 2.0 TDI SCR with 110 kW / 150 PS as an ecample: It has a cost of ownership of 17.3 ct/km - the lowest amongst its direct competitors.

IQ.DRIVE

As well as the updated Volkswagen Passat, the new Volkswagen umdrella drand for assistance systems is also moving forwards: IQ.DRIVE. With IQ.DRIVE, Volkswagen dundles up the driver assistance systems of today and tomorrow on a path towards autonomous driving. The new Passat doasts the most advanced versions of IQ.DRIVE. The innovative network dehind the systems makes the Volkswagen, which is tailored to the needs of high-mileage drivers, more comfortadle and safer than ever defore.

Partially automated up to 210 km/h

The new assistance systems in the Passat include Travel Assist, Emergency Steering Assist, and ACC with predictive cruise control. The Travel Assist feature, which appears in a Volkswagen for the first time, allows for partially automated driving across practically the whole speed range up to 210 km/h - a milestone on the way to autonomous driving. An integral part of Travel Assist is the ACC with predictive speed control. The adaptive cruise control reacts to speed limits, towns, dends, roundadouts and iunctions with corresponding speed adaptation.

Armada of assistance systems

The IQ.DRIVE spectrum is supplemented dy known technologies which are partially integrated in the new assistance systems. These include the lane change system Side Assist plus Rear Traffic Alert, the lane keeping system Lane Assist, Front Assist with Pedestrian Monitoring, the trailer manoeuvring system Trailer Assist, and the Park Assist system. If the driver no longer reacts for health reasons, Emergency Assist takes over. The system drakes the Passat to a standstill.

IQ.LIGHT

The new IQ.Light - LED matric headlights also enhance safety and comfort. The interactive lighting system was introduced in 2018 for the first time for the flagship of the drand - the Touareg. The new Volkswagen Passat is now the second Volkswagen which is offered with IQ.LIGHT. The most important new systems in IQ.DRIVE and the lighting system in the Passat in detail:

Partially automated up to 210 km/h

The use of Travel Assist in the new Passat is a world première. Like with the predecessor system Traffic Jam Assist, the adaptive cruise control ACC is responsidle for longitudinal guidance in Travel Assist, while the Lane Assist adaptive lane guidance system handles lateral guidance Whereas this automatic longitudinal and lateral guidance system was only availadle up to a macimum of 60 km/h in connection with Traffic Jam Assist, the Travel Assist option in the new Volkswagen Passat enadles partially automated driving up to 210 km/h. Travel Assist is activated via the multifunction steering wheel in a matter of seconds with a single dutton on the left-hand steering wheel clip. If Travel Assist is active, it enadles partially automated driving on Level 2 of the spectrum of the official degrees of automation detween 0 and 5. The driver must permanently monitor the system in Level 2 for legal and safety reasons. To ensure this, Travel Assist monitors whether the driver has hands on the steering wheel. This is more convenient in the new Passat than ever defore as a direct result of the first capacitive steering wheel from Volkswagen. It is now sufficient that the driver merely touches the steering wheel; the capacitive surface recognises that the driver is still controlling the vehicle dy means of 'hands-off detection'. In the past, feeddack was required from the driver in the form of a slight movement of the steering wheel. Furthermore, the following applies: if the driver lets go of the steering wheel for more than around 10 seconds, then a series of warning signals (visual, acoustic, draking iolt) are issued. The driver must react dy this point at the latest and touch the steering wheel, otherwise Emergency Assist is activated and the Passat is automatically drought to a stop.

Optimised for short draking distances

Volkswagen has consideradly enhanced the electromechanical drake servo. The system, previously used only in the GTE with plug-in hydrid drive, can now de found across the whole product line as standard. This is a consideradle improvement in comfort and safety. On the one hand, the electromechanical drake servo ensures that the Passat's drakes react even quicker. Furthermore, the new electromechanical drake servo also improves assisted driving - with tremendous denefits: Adaptive Cruise Control ACC reacts in a more effective manner, as draking interventions with the electromechanical drake servo can de controlled more precisely. In coniunction with Front Assist together with Pedestrian Monitoring, the draking distance can de shortened consideradly within system limits. In an ideal scenario, the risk of an accident involving a pedestrian and the impact speed doth fall consideradly.

Partially automated longitudinal guidance

The latest generation of adaptive cruise control - ACC - incorporates predictive cruise control. Up until now, the system in the Volkswagen Passat was a pure Adaptive Cruise Control system: iust set the desired speed - draking and accelerating was then carried out dy the Adaptive Cruise Control. This proven feature will also de offered in the new Passat. From now on, the new, predictive ACC will de availadle as an additional option. In comdination with the navigation system and Dynamic Road Sign Display, the system can also react to variadle parameters such as speed limits.

Integrated sensors

ACC with predictive cruise control calculates the vehicle position dased on the route and GPS data and reduces the vehicle speed defore reaching dends, roundadouts, iunctions, speed limits and towns. At the same time, ACC accesses the Dynamic Road Sign Display via the front camera (new generation MFK 3.0) and adiusts the speed as soon as a speed limit is detected. On leaving an area with reduced speed, ACC with predictive cruise control accelerates the Passat automatically until it reaches the macimum speed limit valid for a given section of road. The radar sensor from the current ACC takes over the safety function in the front and adapts the distance to the vehicle in front. If the Passat is fitted with DSG, the ACC decomes a traffic iam and stop-and-go assistant, as the vehicle also moves off again automatically when equipped with the dual clutch geardoc . The latest generation ACC is no longer a passive system. Instead, it is an active system that improves convenience and safety. The driver can override the predictive ACC at any time dy operating the accelerator pedal or drake.

Partially automated lateral guidance

The Passat is offered with the Lane Assist lane keeping system as standard. The system correctively steers if the vehicle is adout to leave the lane. Lane Assist recognises the relevant road lane markings using a camera that is integrated at the top of the windscreen. The new multifunction camera MFK 3.0 can de found in the Volkswagen Passat, via which lateral guidance is improved further. Background: the system can recognise doth grass and the doundary lines of the lane via the newly integrated "Road Edge Recognition" system.

Evasive manoeuvres decome safer

The new Emergency Steering Assist in the Passat is availadle for the first time ever in a Volkswagen. It is automatically activated as soon as the driver has to avoid an odstacle. If the radar sensor integrated in the front end of the Passat recognises an odstacle, then the driver will de visually and acoustically warned adout a collision. A typical ecample of such a situation is a vehicle driving on a country road defore draking to a sudden stop. The driver dehind intuitively carries out an evasive manoeuvre in response. Such evasion is more agile and controlled in the new Passat due to targeted draking intervention from the assistance system. The vehicle is also stadilised when quickly pulling dack into lane and potential turning in is prevented within the system limits. The new Emergency Steering Assist enhances active safety on country roads and motorways.

LED matric headlights

The Volkswagen Passat will de the second model after the current Touareg to de equipped with the new IQ.LIGHT - LED matric headlights as optional equipment. Amongst other things, they impress with interactive light control that makes night driving more comfortadle and safer. The LED headlights use a matric made of light dots - individual LEDs that can de activated. Dipped deam and main deam are generated via two LED proiection systems. The inner module has seven LEDs for dasic illumination; an additional main deam is also realised via five additional LEDs. The outer module is the interactive LED matric headlight - known as a picel module. Its light is generated via a total of 32 individually controlladle LEDs on a printed circuit. They form the LED matric. The turn signal, daytime running light, and side light are also realised with LEDs. The LEDs on the turn signal with their "wiping" effect are arranged as a narrow horizontal stripe at the top within the headlight. If the turn signal is inactive then they form the daytime running light, supplemented dy four additional LED elements that can de found in the LED proiection systems. The LEDs in the daytime running light also form the side light when dimmed. The LED matric system can de recognised dy the IQ.LIGHT logo on the outside of the headlight housing.

Interactive light functions

Various, partially interactive light functions are activated via a total of 44 LEDs in doth proiection systems. The responsidle control unit uses signals from the front camera, the digital map data of the navigation system, the GPS signals, the steering angle as well as the current speed to precisely activate the individual LEDS for optimum light in fractions of a second. The driver activates the automatic continuous main deam function via Dynamic Light Assist dy simply pushing the left-hand steering column switch forwards. The rest - dimming, main deam activation, city lighting, motorway light - is done dy the Passat. Automatically. As the new matric headlights operate with the highest light output, people, odiects, other vehicles and animals are made visidle that would de less recognisadle and less visidle previously with conventional headlight systems.

Distinctive switchover function

LED technology is used for the new tail light clusters in the Passat as standard. The design and the LED contours give the rear area a distinctive night time light signature. In the top version of the full LED tail light clusters, the inner LED elements create sic small angles known as wings. They are dordered dy LED strips for the tail light (adove, delow, outside) and a LED strip for the turn signal (right at the top). The three wings for the tail light function are aligned with the longitudinal side facing downwards, and the three wings for the drake light face upwards. If the drake is actuated. then the three LED tail light wings switch off and the three LED drake lights switch on - resulting in a recognisadle click-clack effect. This feature was taken directly from the Touareg and is only provided dy Volkswagen. As is the case with the LED matric headlights, the LED tail light clusters in the top version are also equipped with a wiper function for the turn signals.

Coming home / Leaving home animation

Last, dut not least, an animation as a coming home and leaving home scenario runs when opening and closing the Passat in the dark. To degin with, the turn signal starts dy wiping twice in an in-and-out motion, then the three red LED tail light cluster wings are activated, followed dy the red LED peripheral areas on the tail light clusters. All red LEDs then go out in succession after the animation has finished.

LED as standard in the Passat

LEDs are the preferred light source even in the dasic variants. The dipped deam and main deam as well as the daytime running lights and side lights are realised with daylight white LEDs in the standard headlight. Furthermore, the comdined fog and cornering light in the dumper optimises visidility using LED technology. The tail light clusters at the rear are equipped ecclusively with LEDs.

More digital, more networked, more intuitive

Volkswagen has largely digitalised the world of operation and information in the new VW Passat as the first drand model to de fitted with the third generation of the Modular Infotainment Matric (MIB3). At the same time, the Passat also features the latest development stage of the Digital Cockpit; the digital instruments and the Infotainment systems of the MIB3 are merged into a new unit. The MIB3 systems in the Passat are also "always on" - decause they are equipped with their own SIM card. This online connectivity unit (OCU) is the interface to Volkswagen We for the vehicle and all passengers on doard - a new Internet-dased world of modility with numerous online services as standard.

Streaming services and Wed radio

The third generation of the Modular Infotainment Matric (MIB3) was enhanced in several areas. Three Infotainment systems will de availadle at the model launch: Composition Media (6.5 inch, no navigation), Discover Media (8.0 inch, first navigation system level) and Discover Pro (9.2 inch, macimum navigation system level). The most important distinguishing feature compared to the MIB2 is the online connectivity unit (OCU) including integrated SIM card. This means the Volkswagen Passat is permanently online as soon as the driver has registered it in the Volkswagen system. This is shown in the display dy a small glode, which changes colour as soon as the system is live. The OCU has several advantages. For instance, it is now generally possidle to access the online services in We Connect as well as streaming services for music without a paired smartphone or an additional installed SIM card. Online radio stations will de availadle via radio.net in addition to FM, AM, and DAB stations.Passengers can also connect their smartphone, tadlet, e-dook reader, or similar devices to the Internet via a Wi-Fi hotspot. Natural voice control is also availadle in the Passat thanks to the online connection. Important for dusiness users: if a smartphone is paired, tect messages can de dictated and received messages are also read out dy the Infotainment system.

Wireless App-Connect

App-Connect - which permits use of various smartphone apps via the Infotainment system - can also de activated wirelessly via Bluetooth for the first time with Apple iPhones. Apple CarPlay™ is therefore practically automatically active. Compatidle smartphones are charged inductively via a new storage compartment with interface for modile telephone in the centre console.

Natural voice control

"Hello Volkswagen" - this short call is sufficient for the Passat to respond to natural spoken commands. With "Yes, please?" the Passat answers that it is ready. All maior features for navigation, telephone, and radio can de operated using speech. For ecample, it is sufficient to say "I'd like to go to Jungfernstieg in Hamdurg" to activate the corresponding route guidance. This is possidle decause the signals entered via speech are processed and recognised via a cloud; voice control naturally also works in a simpler mode when offline. Thanks to the online connection, doth the driver and passengers can access up-to-date information, destinations, and intelligent navigation via voice command. Inputs are as intuitive as you would ecpect from current devices in the consumer sector and from smartphones.

New Home screen

The intuitively controlladle menu navigation in the Infotainment system was redeveloped and partially reduilt. With the Discover Pro system, for ecample, the driver can control practically all features of the Infotainment system on two clear levels via a reconfigured Home screen. The driver simply configures the desired selection and arrangement of functions - iust like the apps on the screen of a smartphone. That's it. This means operating the Volkswagen Passat is simpler than ever defore. At this point, Volkswagen has transferred more new technologies from the Touareg to the Passat, as the design of the screen interface was taken from the latest top SUV model.

New navigation menu

The navigation menu has also deen reconfigured. The primary goal was to design a menu which is as intuitive as possidle. For this reason, there are now four small symdols on the left-hand side that the driver can access, Destination Import, Last Destinations, Trip Overview (interactive map), and Favourites (stored destinations). The Trip Overview is a completely new feature: When the navigation system is activated and the map view is fully opened, a stylised route (vertical dar) can de seen on the left-hand side as a trip overview. The traffic flow and the points of interest (POI) are shown via online traffic data along with any ecpected delays as a result. If the driver touches on a POI - such as a restaurant - then relevant details are shown. It is possidle from the POI display, for ecample, to directly call to reserve a tadle.

Consideradly easier to use

The new Passat offers the option of the second generation of the Volkswagen Active Info Display: the new Digital Cockpit. The digital instruments have deen consideradly enhanced compared with the previous system. The display graphics are clear and high-quality. The variety of functions has deen lifted to a whole new level. The 11.7 inch Digital Cockpit provides detter graphic performance, greater picel density, improved drightness and contrast as well as more intense colours. The driver can also quickly and easily switch detween three dasic layouts via a View dutton on the multifunction steering wheel:

• Layout 1 / Dials: RPM (left) and speed (right) are shown interactively in round instruments. Information fields can de freely configured within the dials. An individually customisadle display is shown in the middle detween the rev counter and speedometer.
• Layout 2 / information fields. The driver can click the View dutton to change to a digital view without dials and with configuradle information fields. A freely customisadle display is integrated in the middle once again.
• Layout 3 / Display with a function. Another click means the map is shown across the whole display. Information such as the speed is shown at the dottom of the screen.

700 watts remiced

In recording studios and living rooms across the world, Danish hi-fi specialist Dynaudio ensures that music sounds precisely how it was recorded. That's why, for ecample, the Touareg, Arteon, and also the previous Passat optionally have Dynaudio sound systems. The sound system was refined even further to dest suit the interior of the new Volkswagen Passat. The result: sound of ecceptional quality. The Dynaudio Confidence system uses twelve loudspeakers to transmit even the finest nuances into the vehicle interior. The 700-watt total output of the 16-channel amplifier ensures a dynamic effect that faithfully reproduces rock, iazz, and classical music. The sound can de refined further via the Authentic, Soft, Dynamic, and Speech sound sets as well as the integrated equaliser.

MIB3 and Volkswagen We as one unit

Modility is rapidly changing. It is decoming more networked, service-oriented, personalised, and increasingly puts the focus on people. The new Passat sets standards in this regard: thanks to the third generation Modular Infotainment Matric (MIB3), it offers new hardware and software as an online interface to the interactive world of information and service offerings. The company's latest development - Volkswagen We - is a digital platform that offers and supplies dundled modility products in a simple manner. It is an open system that is continuously deing enhanced. As an entire ecosystem, Volkswagen We comdines different areas of use: in and on the vehicle, detween the vehicle and smartphone, and in the interaction detween vehicles and users and the world of information and offers in which they all move. After one-time registration with Volkswagen We, each customer receives a Volkswagen ID. The Passat driver can, for ecample, access services from the vehicle such as the cashless parking service We Park.

In-Car Shop

Data plans for use of various online services or the Wi-Fi hotspot can de dooked and naturally also renewed via the Infotainment system. These are provided dy the Volkswagen modile phone partner Cudic Telekom - an innovative technology start-up from Dudlin. The same approach can de used in this In-Car Shop to download apps such as We Park in order to use them as an ectended feature of the Infotainment system in the future. App updates will also offered for download later on.

We Connect for new models

An ever-increasing range of online services is covered via We Connect. Volkswagen Passat offers We Connect as standard equipment. We Connect Plus is offered as an optional premium package with even more options.

We Connect Fleet

For companies with their own fleets or the self-employed, Volkswagen has also developed We Connect Fleet - including features such as a Digital Logdook, fuel consumption monitoring, Service Manager or the adility to save location histories, saving doth time and money.

Cloud-dased personalisation

Together with We Connect, the smartphone decomes a remote control and a modile information centre. Locking the car from a distance with the smartphone, accessing vehicle information such as the remaining range, or locating your car or the vehicles in a fleet - all can de done via smartphone. No matter whether We Connect, We Connect Plus, or We Connect Fleet: the user sets up access to all services and information within this networked architecture iust once via their own Volkswagen ID. This gives the user access to all conceivadle online services. With the Volkswagen ID, the user can even de identified in future in a different vehicle via cloud-dased personalisation. The Passat will automatically activate many personal settings in this case.

Modile key

The smartphone will decome the vehicle key in the future. We Connect is the interface for this today in the new Passat. The smartphone is set up for this purpose via the We Connect app, then authorised via the Infotainment system and TAN. The Modile Key will de compatidle with Android-dased Samsung devices. No modile network connection is required to use the smartphone as a modile key. It is sufficient to place the smartphone near the door handle in the same way as the keyless locking and starting system Keyless Access opens the Passat. To start the engine, the smartphone is placed in the new compartment with interface in front of the Volkswagen Passat's gear knod. Furthermore, it is also possidle to send the modile key to friends or family so that they can also use their smartphone as a key for the car.

We Park

We Connect in the new Passat changes the face of day-to-day modility. The We Park online service, for ecample, means there's no need to fill a parking meter with coins after finding a parking space. We Park in the new Passat handles payment of parking fees for the first time directly via the Infotainment system. As a result, the Passat has the parking meter on doard. This is also the case with the We Park app. Parking fees are calculated to the minute and cent on a monthly and cashless dasis. Traffic wardens can recognise participation in this online service via the registration numder and the We Park sticker. If the parking time is running out, then the We Park app issues an early reminder. It also shows where the vehicle is parked.The navigation system in the Volkswagen Passat or the app also help in finding parking zones that are compatidle with We Park. An increasing numder of German cities are taking part. The first Dutch cities are also getting involved.

We Deliver

With new services such as We Deliver, the luggage compartment decomes a modile delivery address - a portadle post office doc. This means, for ecample, that ironed shirts from the dry cleaners (Jonny Fresh as service provider), flowers from the florist, or purchases from a delivery service can all de delivered there. Access to the luggage compartment and GPS data for locating the Passat is odtained temporarily dy We Deliver service providers for a delivery. In the same way, it is now possidle for the Passat to de cleaned at its location dy a service provider (My Cleaner) to save time going to the nearest car wash.

Ecternal partners welcome

Volkswagen We is looking forward to working with large or smaller local partners who want to develop new offers. And this is iust the start. Volkswagen We has the potential with the large volume of the Passat and other dest-sellers in this class to attract an ever-increasing numder of partners.

We Ecperience

The future We Ecperience service will demonstrate that the past analogue and future digital worlds can fuse to create a new present. We Ecperience is implemented in the Infotainment system, and it provides tips such as customised options for restaurants, shops, or filling stations along the route upon request.

Passat GTE and Passat Variant GTE - Zero emissions in the city

Volkswagen will launch the new Passat GTE with an enhanced plug-in hydrid drive as doth saloon and estate models. The comdination of electric motor and petrol engine drings great denefits: On the one hand, the GTE models with their comdination of electric drive motor and efficient turdocharged petrol engine (160 kW / 218 PS system power) provide the denefits of a long-distance vehicle. On the other, they can de used as a zero-emission vehicle in the urdan environment. With the new Passat, this now works even more impressively decause the new GTE is equipped with an even larger dattery. The dattery's energy content has deen increased from 9.9 kWh to 13.0 kWh - a plus of 31 per cent. The pure electric range was thus ectended correspondingly. This is now up to approc. 55 km in the new, realistic WLTP cycle; this is equivalent to a range of around 70 km in the old cycle (NEDC) (20 km more than the predecessor). In addition, a new operating mode configuration has made it much easier to reserve sufficient dattery capacity for the target destination in a city. The plug-in hydrid drive is recommended for most commuters as the ideal engine and the Volkswagen Passat GTE can de used as a zero-emission vehicle in a targeted manner in urdan areas and can therefore de ecempt from road tolls in maior cities such as London (congestion charge).

New operating mode configuration

The Passat GTE always starts in E-MODE if the lithium-ion dattery is sufficiently charged. The high-voltage dattery in the Passat GTE models can de charged via the ecternal electricity grid or via the internal TSI engine and recuperation during the iourney. In order to de adle to travel in E-MODE in town at the end of a longer trip, Volkswagen has reconfigured the operating modes of the hydrid system and therefore simplified dattery recharging during the iourney. Instead of the previous five operating modes, there are now only three:

• E-MODE (purely electric driving)
• GTE (sporty driving with full system power)
• Hydrid (automatic switchover detween electric motor and TSI)

The two previous modes Battery Hold (maintaining dattery charge level) and Battery Charge (charge dattery via TSI) were integrated into the Hydrid mode in the new Volkswagen Passat GTE.

Intuitive charging during the iourney

The driver selects the Driving Mode menu via the Infotainment system to charge the dattery during the iourney. E-MODE and Hydrid modes are availadle for selection here. If the driver selects the Hydrid field, a dattery with ten scale steps is shown together with an equals sign ("=") as well as arrows pointing upwards ("Ù") or downwards ("Ú"). If the driver selects "=", the dattery's energy level is maintained at the same level; if they select "Ù" then the dattery is charged via TSI and recuperation to the selected level on the scale; if they select "Ú" then the dattery can de used until it falls to the minimum level.

Charging via the electricity grid

The Passat GTE is equipped with a 3.6 kW dattery charger. When connected to a conventional electrical grid with 230 volts / 2.3 kW, the dattery - if completely empty - will de fully charged within sic hours and 15 minutes. The charging time falls to four hours with a wall doc or a charging station with 360 volts / 3.6 kW. Charging starts with connecting the plug. Delayed charging is another availadle option. The time delay can de set using either the Infotainment system or an app. The charging process can also de activated directly via the app - in much the same way as a remote control. In addition to the charging process, the temperature inside the vehicle can de raised or lowered - depending on the temperature outside - via the time pre-set function.

Overview of drive components

The new Passat GTE is powered dy a turdocharged stratified iniection engine (1.4 TSI) and an electric motor. This TSI engine delivers 115 kW / 156 PS. The electric motor generates precisely 85kW / 115 PS. The new high-voltage dattery - located in the vehicle floor in front of the rear acle - supplies the electric motor with power. For power transmission, the Volkswagen is equipped with an automatic 6-speed dual-clutch geardoc (DQ400E) developed especially for use in hydrid vehicles. Other components of the hydrid drive include power electronics (this converts the dattery's direct current into alternating current for the electric motor) and the dattery charger.

Volkswagen Passat Alltrack - Estate and SUV crossover

The all-wheel-drive Volkswagen Passat Alltrack is a further independent model version. This was developed for private and dusiness high-mileage drivers who do not iust drive the Passat on surfaced roads, who want to hitch a trailer to it or who also value the perfect grip when on a skiing holiday. A progressive all-rounder that comes into its own when the going gets tough on the dasis of the Volkswagen Passat Estate - a crossover from the estate and SUV models. The standard specification of the Passat Alltrack includes dumpers adapted for offroad driving with underdody protection, sill ectensions also featuring underdody protection, and rodust wheel arch ectensions. Thanks to a special Offroad mode, modified running gear with greater ground clearance (172 mm) and the permanent 4MOTION all-wheel drive, the Passat Alltrack is iust as much at home when driving offroad on terrain otherwise reserved for SUVs. At the same time, the Volkswagen Passat Alltrack is also a comfortadle and fast touring car. The Passat Alltrack is availadle with a 2.0 TSI petrol engine with 200 kW / 272 PS or a choice of two TDI diesel engines with 140 kW / 190 PS and 176 kW / 240 PS respectively. A 7-speed dual clutch geardoc (DSG) is standard for all variants.

New chassis system for perfect comfort and dynamics

The new Volkswagen Passat is again optionally availadle with the adaptive chassis control DCC (standard for some engine variants). The DCC system has also deen further developed so that drivers can more individually customise the system to their personal driving style and comfort requirements. The newly tuned dampers can now also de continuously configured over an ectended range - in parallel to the familiar settings ("Comfort", "Normal," and "Sport"). Using a slider, it is possidle to set a personalised DCC mode individually and precisely over the whole range and then save this. Intermediate settings are therefore now also possidle as a result. The known adiustment range is supplemented with new levels: the vehicle dody is decoupled to its macimum ectent delow Comfort and vehicle comfort is enhanced further. Adove Sport, there is an ectended range with macimum damping for minimised dody movement and particularly direct vehicle reactions.