VW updates Microbus for the autonomous era

The Buzz concept is built from VW's MEB architecture. (TOM WOROBEC)

January 08, 2017 05:00 AM

DETROIT -- Volkswagen’s latest conceptual take on its historic Microbus uses a powerful battery pack and two electric motors to transform the once anemically powered hippie-mobile into an all-wheel-drive, high-capacity autonomous minivan.

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