Electric VW Bus Starts at $61,545
Range Is Good for LA to ‘Vegas; NY to Cape Cod
The resurrection of the famed VW bus, now called the ID.Buzz and re-imagined for a new century with an all-electric powertain, is coming closer as Volkswagen announces pricing and EPA range estimates for the models to be sold in the U.S.
The 2025 ID.Buzz will be offered with three-row seating and rear-wheel drive as standard equipment. The two top trims will be available with electric al-wheel drive.
EPA range estimates are up to 234 miles for models with rear rive and 231 miles for those with all-wheel drive.
The Buzz is slated to go on sale this fall.
Pricing and Power
The company said that the base Pro S trim with rear-wheel drive will start at $61,545, including VW’s mandatory $1,550 destination charge.
The Pro S Plus with rear drive will start at $65,045 jumping to $69,545 with AWD, which adds a second electric motor and boosts total horsepower by almost 20%.
A special 1st Edition model, based on the Pro S, will start at $67,045 with rear drive and $71,545 with all-wheel drive.
All will be equipped with a 91 kilowatt-hour battery pack and rear-drive versions will get a single, 282-horsepower motor while all-wheel drive variants will get two motors – one for each set of wheels – with a combined 335-hp output.
Let’s Take a Drive
Range for the 2025 ID.Buzz isn’t great for those who make frequent cross-country trips but a full battery with either Buzz drivetrain is sufficient for trips with a full recharge at the destination for those who want to get home again:
- For surfing safaris along California’s coast from Los Angels north almost to Big Sur or south to the Mexican border and, for gambling, shows and desert sun, east to Las Vegas;
- From New York City north to Manchester, NH, east to Cape Cod, Mass., or even westerly for a round trip to Philadelphia;
- From Atlanta north to Nashville or southeast to Savannah, south to Tallahassee, or westerly to Tuscaloosa, Ala.
- Seattle residents could make it as far north as Kamloops in British Columbia, east to Spokane or south through Portland and as far as Newport, Oregon;
- From Dallas it would be hard to get very far out out of Texas on a fully charged battery, but either ID.Buzz powertrain should be good for a run southeast to Houston, southwest to the Texas hill country around New Braunfels, north to Oklahoma City or east to Shreveport, La.
- And for Chicagoans, northwest to La Crosse, Wis., northeast to Traverse City or east to the Detroit area, southeast to Dayton,Ohio or due west to Iowa City for a Northwestern Wildcats vs Iowa Hawkeyes game.
ID Buzz Features
Pro S
The base ID.Buzz model comes with 20-inch alloys; LED headlights and taillights with “hello” and Good-bye” animation sequences; a lighted logo; tinted second- and third-row windows; stowable third-row seating for two and second-row bench seating for three with heated outboard seats; heated, power folding exterior mirrors with memory; three-zone automatic climate control; a 12.9-inch infotainment screen and a 5.3-inch digital drive info display; removable center console; auto-dimming interior mirror; keyless access with proximity unlocking and illuminated front door handles; power heated and ventilated front seats with dual armrests, massage, and seat position memory; heated steering wheel and windshield washer nozzles; a 9-speaker audio system; wireless phone charging; wireless App-Connect for smartphone functions such as Apple CarPlay and Android Auto; Wi-Fi capability; eight USB-C ports; a 12-volt trunk outlet and a 110-volt outlet in the passenger compartment, and power sliding side doors and tailgate.
Also standard are driver assist and safety features including adaptive cruise control, blind sport warning with steering assist, front collision warning with emergency braking, rear traffic alert, front and rear parking distance alert; and Park Assist Plus with Memory Parking for hands-free parallel and perpendicular (in marked stalls) parking.
There are three standard single-tone exterior colors – white, silver and black pearl – and two interior color schemes:
- Copper, with brown seats with yellow piping, brown door inserts, and a washed wood-look dash,
- Moonlight, with dark brown seats with white piping, blue door inserts and a dark wood-look dash and black headliner.
Pro S Plus
The top trim replaces or adds to Pro S features with a head-up display; an around-the-vehicle camera display; a 14-speaker Harman/Kardon sound system; and hands-free power-sliding rear doors and tailgate. Rear-wheel-drive versions get second row bench seating while captain’s chairs and a heated windshield are standard for the Pro S with all-wheel drive. All-wheel drive verisions also get captain’s chairs for second-row seating, reducing total seating capacity to six.
Standard ID.Buzz exterior colors are white and black, and there are three interior schemes, Copper, Moonlight and Dune, which provides light grey seats with clay-colored piping, clay door inserts, and a light wood-look dash.
There are eight two-tone exterior color schemes, at $995: White top with blue, charcoal, orange, grey, green, silver, or yellow below; or a silver top with cherry red below. An electrochromic – dimmmable – glass roof is also available for $1,495,
1st Edition
The 1st Edition is based on the Pro S trim but adds the 14-speaker audio system, hands-free power side doors and tailgate form the Pro S Plus. It also comes standard with the electrochromic glass roof, cross-bars for the roof rails, unique 20-inch alloys, special badging and a “flexboard” that provides for a dual-level cargo bay when the third-row seats are folded away.
All 1st Edition models come with the Dune interior scheme and a choice of five two-tone exterior paint schemes: White top over blue, orange, green, silver, or yellow.
