Welcome to The Downshift (TDS for short), a daily sweep of the morning’s top headlines from the auto industry and car culture, curated by The Drive’s editorial team. Each story gets a short summary and a link to the original source if you want to dive deeper. Here’s what’s happening on Monday, September 14, 2026: Volkswagen has revived the soul of its record-setting XL1 EV in a new prototype, called Mission Efficiency. The company calls it “the world’s most efficient near-production electric car,” with a tapered, teardrop shape that achieves an impossibly low drag coefficient of 0.158, well below that of any other road-legal vehicle. It has two doors, a relatively small 55-kWh…
Volkswagen Just Proved It Can Make a Super-Long-Range EV Right Now: TDS
