First 100% electric SUV with the four-ring brand emblem, the Audi e-tron is fast approaching the moment of its official presentation, which is already scheduled for the next 17th of September.
In the meantime, with the development phase nearing its end, some more official data and photos are also beginning to appear, about a model that promises to start a new phase at Audi. Not just in terms of thrusters, but also in aspects like design.
Energy recovery system will be innovative
Among the news already disclosed is, for example, the promise that the model will be able to recover up to 30% of battery capacity , through a new and innovative energy recovery system. With the brand's engineers even guaranteeing that the e-tron will be able to add an extra kilometer for every kilometer made in the descent.
This guarantee stems, in fact, from tests that Audi carried out a few days ago on the Pikes Peak ramp, in Colorado, USA, with development vehicles. Already equipped with the new energy recovery system, with three operating modes: braking energy recovery; energy recovery in “free wheel” situations using the function that anticipates the road's orography; and energy recovery with the use of the “free wheel” function in manual mode, that is, with the driver's intervention, through the automatic gearshift paddles — technologies that are certainly easier to use than to explain...
Two engines, with Boost Mode and 400 km of autonomy
In addition to the innovative energy recovery system, Audi also revealed data on the propulsion system of this Audi e-tron, starting with the “heart” — a component made up of two electric motors, to deliver a combined power of 360 hp and an instantaneous torque of 561 Nm.
With the system still benefiting from a Boost Mode , available for no more than eight seconds, at which time the driver has all the power possible: 408 hp and 664 Nm of torque.
Having a battery pack of 95 kWh , the German electric SUV thus achieves accelerations from 0 to 100 km/h in less than six seconds (Audi doesn't reveal the precise number…) and a top speed of 200 km/h, all this, in addition to an autonomy, now according to the new WLTP cycle, from more than 400 km.
Style? Follow in a moment...
As for the aesthetics, and although the images obtained, based on development units, confirm the launch of the Audi e-tron as a five-door SUV, it is also guaranteed that the model will feature a second body, with a more dynamic appearance, as a result of fusion of the crossover lines with those of a coupé. Version that will be given the name of e-tron Sportback and whose official presentation should take place next year, during the 2019 Geneva Motor Show.
However, the e-tron family will not be limited to these two elements, as it will gain another, called e-tron GT, a 100% electric saloon designed to fight the rival Tesla Model S, in its own terrain, deriving from the Porsche Taycan.
Finally, there is also no chance that, as time goes by, a super sports car could emerge, based on the same technology, and which, in aesthetic terms, could follow the lines of the prototype that will be unveiled later this month in Pebble Beach, USA, which we've seen teasers for.
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