大众研发主管Frank Welsch在接受采访时透露，将为一款采用MQB平台车型，车身尺寸与高尔夫相仿的车型提供48伏弱混动系统。虽然目前该车的身份还未确定，但极有可能就是T-Roc量产版，大众将在未来几周内发布这款与高尔夫大小差不多的紧凑型跨界车。对于采用MQB平台的车型，内装此类系统很容易，由于MQB是模块化平台，因此可以采用插电混动系统。该车将于下月在葡萄牙Palmela工厂投产，这意味着大众将在7月底或8月初发布这款C级跨界车。该车还将于2019年销往美国。除了T-Roc，下一代大众途锐也将在9月的法兰克福车展发布并将于11月投产。该车采用的是与奥迪Q7相同的MLB Evo平台。

VW T-Roc Could Be Brand's First Car With Mild Hybrid System

Volkswagen ’s head of development, Frank Welsch, has revealed in an interview with Automotive News the folks from Wolfsburg are gearing up to implement a 48-volt mild hybrid system in a car that will be the size of a Golf and part of the growing MQB family.

The model’s identity has not been disclosed, but chances are the car in question will be the T-Roc, a Golf-sized compact crossover due to be unveiled in the following weeks. It’s going to be fairly easy from that point on to install the system in other MQB cars, with Welsch saying it will be “more or less plug and play” thanks

to the modular platform.

Getting back to the T-Roc, it’s set to enter production for European markets next month at the Palmela factory in Portugal. It likely means VW will unveil the C-segment crossover later this July or early August. The model will also be sold in United States, but not until around 2019.

Another new SUV from VW due this year is the next-generation Touareg bound to hit the assembly line in November following what will likely be a Frankfurt premiere in September. It won’t be a part of the MQB family as it will ride on the MLB Evo platform like the Audi Q7.