Audi takes the lead with its electric plan
It could be said that not a month goes by without Audi showing us, in one way or another, what its future range, marked by an ‘electrifying’ calendar. All to focus on what will be the launch of a type of planning in which vehicles that work with a combustion engine will no longer be new launches.
With everything, and in view of their marked dates, the Germans have the objective of promoting a more sustainable mobility, where they will invest approximately 14 billion euros in electric mobility until the end of 2023. In addition to the development and production of the new electric cars, the investments will also go to the qualification of personnel, sales or the reduction of CO2 emissions in factories.
In this situation, Audi has already confirmed that will only manufacture electrics in 2026, although this does not mean that from then on it will stop selling diesel or gasoline cars; it simply means that the cars of new construction will be zero emissions. But, how will it be and what intentions does it have?
What is Audi’s roadmap
The first steps, of course, have already begun. Its range of electrified vehicles is gaining weight day by day. It already has many plug-in hybrid models for sale in its range, which are included under the name TFSIe.
This TFSIe range (here the technical sheet of the A7) as we will discuss later, ranges from the compact class to the luxury segment. For them they use three TFSI engines, combined with a permanent synchronous electric motor with a power between 80kw and 105kw. At the same time, and gradually, they are expected to reduce the production of internal combustion engines, which will reach its end in 2033.
In any case, the company anticipates that demand will continue in China beyond that year, so it could continue to offer these vehicles there, manufactured locally in that country. In that direction, it has also been pointed out that by 2025 it will already have more than 20 models with fully electric propulsion system.
Last April, for example, the brand with the four rings announced that this year it will start using the innovative PPE (Premium Platform Electric) platform, developed in collaboration with Porsche (it will also be used in the future electric Macan), with the Q6 e-tron, a 100% electric SUV that by size will be between the current Q5 and Q7.
What your electrified models
In those, and although he already has several concept cars designed for the coming years, at present, the brand with the four rings focuses its electric offer on the complete range of the Audi e-tron, which does it with the SUV variants, Sportback, and their respective sportier variants. These are those of the Audi Q4 e-tron and Q4 Sportback as an access model to the electric family.
Everything to focus on what is its crown jewel, the Audi etron GT. The next launches signed by the most recently created department will be the Q5 e-tron and the A6 e-tron, completely electrified variants of two of its most respectable models, although later the landing of new models will be much more pronounced, reason for weight to try to find the balance of benefit between combustion and electric as soon as possible.