Home Cars News Boxy, budget-friendly, and built for Beijing: the Jetta X is Volkswagen's most unconventional EV play yet. Volkswagen / Jetta If you grew up watching a Volkswagen Jetta sit sensibly in suburban areas, brace yourself. The Jetta is now a boxy electric SUV concept for the Chinese market, with a cutthroat budget EV market. Unfortunately, it has no plans to visit the United States (via CarNewsChina ).  Volkswagen / Cars News China What does the Jetta X Concept’s arrival mean for the company? Volkswagen unveiled the Jetta X concept via a media event on April 21, 2026, ahead of the Beijing Auto Show. It marks the brand’s foray into China’s new energy vehicle market, and the brand took its sweet time to enter it, in my opinion.  In China, Jetta isn’t just a model name. It operates as a separate entry-level brand as part of the FAW-Volkswagen collaboration, which has been selling affordable combustion engines for about six to seven years now.  Two words: rugged and square.…