Volkswagen's ID. Polo is sold out with a ten-month queue
Three Spanish-built EVs sold out faster than Volkswagen planned for
Volkswagen has taken more than 30,000 orders for the ID. Polo since the books opened at the end of April, and anyone configuring one today is being quoted at least ten months. Skoda's Epiq is past 35,000. The Cupra Raval is gone for months as well. All three come out of the same two Spanish factories, and that is the whole problem.
The ID. Polo has 30,000 orders and a ten-month queue
The ID. Polo went on sale at the end of April 2026 and Volkswagen now puts European orders above 30,000. The head of a large Volkswagen dealer group, quoted by Automobilwoche, says individually configured cars are being scheduled at least ten months out. Volkswagen confirmed the longer delivery times and pointed at two things: demand it calls very positive, and the production capacity it planned for Martorell years ago. Buyers willing to take a pre-configured dealer car can get one sooner, which is a polite way of saying the queue applies to people who want to choose their own colour.
Skoda's Epiq is past 35,000 orders and quoting June 2027
Skoda puts the Epiq above 35,000 orders, and some current configurations are being given delivery dates in May or June 2027. Series production only began on 8 June at Volkswagen Navarra outside Pamplona, so that backlog was built in about three months of output. The Cupra Raval, which rolls down the same line as the ID. Polo, is described by dealers as sold out for months too, despite arriving with four Euro NCAP stars rather than five. Scarcity is doing more for these cars than any review has.
Martorell and Pamplona have to carry a fourth model too
The Electric Urban Car Family is one engineering project split across three badges, and it is also one manufacturing footprint. The ID. Polo and the Raval share the line at Martorell near Barcelona, the Epiq is built at Navarra, and the ID. Cross crossover starts reaching showrooms in November on the same basis. There is no reserve line in Wolfsburg or Mlada Boleslav to switch on. When Volkswagen says the capacity was planned long ago, it is describing a ceiling it set itself, before it knew what the order books would look like.
The 25,900 euro Epiq 35 is not the version you can order
The affordable electric car in the headlines is not quite the one on the price list. In Germany the Epiq starts at €32,100 today, while the €25,900 Epiq 35 that made the segment look solved is still to come. The ID. Polo's cheapest German version is €24,995 and the Raval opens at €25,950. Those are honest prices for cars of this size, but they sit thousands of euros above the new Dacia Spring, which was revealed this week built in Europe and under €20,000. The Volkswagen Group is not winning this segment on price. It is winning it on the fact that the cars exist.
116 hp, 37 kWh and up to 454 km on the entry ID. Polo
Underneath the three badges sits MEB+ and front-wheel drive. The ID. Polo is sold with 116 hp, 135 hp or 211 hp; the two lower outputs use a 37 kWh net battery, the 211 hp car a 52 kWh pack rated at up to 454 km WLTP. The Epiq tops out at 211 hp and roughly 440 km, the Raval at 226 hp and 445 km. Vehicle-to-load is standard across the family, which is still unusual this far down the price list and matters more to a camper or a builder than another tenth off the sprint.
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The number worth arguing about is not 30,000, it is ten. Europe's carmakers spent 2024 and 2025 telling Brussels that the CO2 targets were unrealistic because buyers would not take small electric cars in the volumes the rules assumed. Volkswagen has now put three of them on sale and cannot build them quickly enough. The binding constraint turned out to be two assembly plants in Spain, not the appetite of the people walking into the showrooms, and that is a very different argument to be having.
It is the better of the two problems, but it still costs something. A ten-month wait sends a buyer toward whatever is standing on the forecourt, and what is standing on the forecourt usually burns petrol. So the figure to watch is not the order total, it is whether the cheap versions actually land: the €25,900 Epiq 35, and the ID. Up that Volkswagen has promised at around €20,000 for 2027. Those are the cars that decide whether this queue was a launch spike or a market.
