I think it is a pure EV. They had a test drive event for the Golf EV at airport expo a few years back. It drove like a normal Golf apart from the regenerative braking and it wasn't as "mind blowing" as the MS when I first test drove it. It looks exactly like a normal ICE Golf also. With that price tag, I think they will need to make some serious improvements if they want to sell it in HK like the i3 and the MS. Hope they have done it over the pass few years.