Six-Month Road Test

Up until now, our experience with the Volkswagen e-Golf—the all-electric version of the VW Golf—has been a series of cursory encounters. In a short first drive last spring, followed by another city-loop drive, and then a brief-but-telling back-to-back drive with the Golf TDI, we found the e-Golf to be a surprisingly complete, compelling car on its own. It's a car that, from what we can tell, drives just as well, is packaged as smartly, and rides just as comfortably as any other Golf. VW has noted that its goal with the e-Golf was to provide a car that was “a Golf first, and...