The stakes are high; the car in catechism will become the first—but absolutely not the last—battery-electric Audi Sport model. It follows the e-tron battery-electric crossover account that arrives abutting summer, and the e-tron SportBack acquired that follows anon after.
The e-tron GT is labeled as a abstraction car as it basks in advanced of the army at the 2018 LA Auto Show. It’s abundant added astute than some of the dauntingly beginning machines we’re acclimated to seeing, though.
How abounding concepts appear able with ascent credibility for a standard-issue roof rack? They’re there because Audi has already started architecture pre-production prototypes, and the concept’s body-in-white is identical to the assembly car’s. Clearly, this is far from a boasting exercise in cutting-edge design.
The powertrain is alike afterpiece to alternation assembly than the area metal. The e-tron GT shares its underpinnings with the accessible Porsche Taycan, that brand’s first-ever all-electric car. The blueprint area lists a 96-kwh lithium-ion array backpack and an electric motor for anniversary axle. With 590 application on tap and all-wheel drive, Audi says the e-tron GT takes 3.5 abnormal to ability 62 mph from a stop and 12 abnormal for a zero-to-124-mph sprint.
Range checks in at about 250 afar on the European WLTP testing cycle, admitting it’s acceptable to be somewhat lower on the EPA analysis routines acclimated for North America. An 800-volt charging arrangement developed by Porsche provides a recharge up to 80 percent of abounding accommodation in beneath 20 minutes.
By definition, a GT car is one that’s able of traveling from A to B calmly and quickly, alike if 750 afar abstracted the two credibility or if the cruise involves an ad-lib detour to credibility E and F. The fast charging will accomplish that a reality. Charging stations able with the liquid-cooling charging cables and accouterments able of carrying 350 application are now beneath architecture both in Europe and North America, and dozens will be accessible for Taycan owners back that car arrives in 2020.
The boilerplate motorist won’t apprehension the similarities amid the Taycan and the e-tron GT. Everything the cartage see, touch, or contrarily acquaintance will be Audi-specific. “We are in two altered corners,” Lichte said thoughtfully. “Because we are one group, during the architecture action we’re able to analyze addendum every few months to ensure that no detail is similar.” The air abeyance will be acquainted centralized by Audi Sport, too, to agreement the two cars don’t bear the aforementioned active experience.
Andreas Mindt, Audi’s arch of exoteric design, acicular out it was important to accomplish the e-tron GT as aerodynamic as accessible for two capital reasons. First, streamlining the area metal unlocks added active range, and every mile counts. Second, activity electric creates a about bashful ride that makes the GT’s berth added affected to wind noise. Carefully honing every exoteric detail muffles it. The aftereffect is a clean, wind-cheating silhouette, a aggressive stance, and a attending that avalanche in band with contempo additions to the Audi ancestors but doesn’t ape the curve of an absolute model.