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Interesting! Launch 2018 and Audi are already taking orders.
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Is that an extra battery pack attached for extended range ?
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Fascinating concept! We've always said that the MAcan might be our last petrol car. As once the electric ones get faster, more efficient, and have reliable charging, that the market will really explode, as long as the cost is good!

The main issue will be a silent sports car i guess!
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Macananon wrote: Thu Jul 20, 2017 2:15 pm Is that an extra battery pack attached for extended range ?
:lol: :lol: :lol:
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Seems to me that despite their vast expertise with their WEC hybrid Porsche are apparently seriously behind Audi in particular when it comes to EVs and production hybrids.
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Further...


Audi is racing to get the car to market ahead of the Jaguar I-Pace, something a senior executive previously told Autocar would make it the “first real premium manufacturer doing a premium electric SUV”.

The car, predicted to have a range of at least 500km (311 miles), is built on a development of the electrified platform Porsche is using for its Mission E electric saloon. It is powered by three electric motors, two of which drive the rear wheels while one powers the fronts.

This set-up was seen in the E-tron Quattro concept of 2015, where it offered maximum combined outputs of 496bhp and 590lb ft. It enabled a 0-62mph time of 4.5sec and a restricted top speed of 131mph – previewing what’s to come with the production model.

This set-up will also be used in a second all-electric SUV model, which itself was previewed by the E-tron Sportback concept shown at this year’s Shanghai motor show. It features a more swept-back design and will make it to market one year after its sibling.

Luca de Meo, Audi’s sales and marketing boss, previously told Autocar that the E-tron SUV will “cost about the same as a well-specced Audi A6”. That suggests it will appear at a price point of at least £60k. The second SUV may top that figure.

2018 launch

Audi sales and marketing boss Dietmar Voggenreiter said that Audi has chosen to launch the E-tron next year because that is when battery technology will be mature enough to offer a range more more than 500km (311 miles). This figure is “crucial”, he said, because consumers won’t accept less.

The charging infrastructure should also be more extensive next year — another key reason for choosing a 2018 launch date. “A 400km to 500km range must be possible and we must have a fastcharging infrastructure,” said Voggenreiter. “Both things are coming in 2018. The battery energy density is there and there is a lot of charging infrastructure in Europe, the US and Asia.”

Voggenreiter said Audi was involved through the Volkswagen Group and with rival firms such as Ford, BMW and Daimler in ensuring there’s a fast-charging network for longer-range EVs to use.

“It’s not our job to invest in charging points,” he said. “We are pushing and organising this, though, and working with partners on it.”

He referred to the ‘chicken and egg’ situation of limited charging infrastructure to date: there has been no need for third parties to install chargers because there are not enough cars to use them, and vice versa. “No cars, no infrastructure, but in the next two years there are lots of investments,” he said.

Audi E-tron

Audi has opted not to launch its electric cars under a sub-brand like BMW with its i models and Mercedes-Benz’s future EQ range. Instead, it is using E-tron’, which has been a suffix on electrified Audis, as a model name in its own right. It is intended as a stand-alone, milestone launch model to introduce the technology in a strategy used by Audi with ‘quattro’ in the 1980s.

Speaking last year about the E-tron name, Audi boss Rupert Stadler said: “It is comparable to the first Audi Quattro, which was known simply as the Quattro. In the long term, the name ‘E-tron’ will stand for a pure electric driveline structure.”

Voggenreiter said the E-tron name will be used on a range of follow-up electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, where it will appear mostly as a suffix, as with the A3 e-tron. It’s likely Audi’s next-generation models, which will start with the A8 this summer, will each get electric versions. The A8 e-tron is most likely to be the first candidate.

An SUV body is important for the E-tron because it is the most on-trend bodystyle, said Voggenreiter. “A lot of customers have been asking when we’ll bring this car to market,” he said. “There is certain demand in the premium segment and we’re not being first to market for the sake of it; it’s the right product. It’s a real SUV, with Audi design language.”

Voggenreiter suggested the Audi range of E-tron models will get slightly different styling from the Marc Lichte-designed new look that will be rolled out across the rest of the line-up, starting with the A8.

“E-trons are close to the designs of Marc Lichte but in different packages,” he said. “There isn’t an engine in the front…”

The size of the E-tron suggests it’s a Q6 in all but name, but Voggenreiter hinted the Q6 was a separate project altogether. He cited speculation that the Q6 should be a “four-door coupé SUV” based on the Q5 in a similar style to the Q8 being spun off the Q7. But he said the E-tron isn’t the Q6, because it’s “not a four-door coupé SUV. It’s a sporty SUV”.
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Dandock wrote: Thu Jul 20, 2017 3:05 pm

“It’s not our job to invest in charging points,” he said. “We are pushing and organising this, though, and working with partners on it.”

He referred to the ‘chicken and egg’ situation of limited charging infrastructure to date: there has been no need for third parties to install chargers because there are not enough cars to use them, and vice versa. “No cars, no infrastructure, but in the next two years there are lots of investments,” he said.
To me, the key point in the whole EV debate. Who is going to invest in this charging infrastructure?

And heaven forbid that they should talk to each other and make all the plugs the same size for each manufacturer.....!
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Paul wrote: Thu Jul 20, 2017 3:30 pm
Dandock wrote: Thu Jul 20, 2017 3:05 pm

“It’s not our job to invest in charging points,” he said. “We are pushing and organising this, though, and working with partners on it.”

He referred to the ‘chicken and egg’ situation of limited charging infrastructure to date: there has been no need for third parties to install chargers because there are not enough cars to use them, and vice versa. “No cars, no infrastructure, but in the next two years there are lots of investments,” he said.
To me, the key point in the whole EV debate. Who is going to invest in this charging infrastructure?

And heaven forbid that they should talk to each other and make all the plugs the same size for each manufacturer.....!
:lol: :lol: :lol:
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VAG and others have been working on a coordinated partnership with other providers for charging for ages. They don't (and shouldn't) have to do it themselves.
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goron59 wrote: Thu Jul 20, 2017 4:07 pm VAG and others have been working on a coordinated partnership with other providers for charging for ages. They don't (and shouldn't) have to do it themselves.
And so it should be. Its everyone's benefit.
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