Published On Nov 17, 2021 09:54:00 AM
New all-electric Audi RS archetypal acceptable to accomplish upwards of 600hp; accepted to get subtler corrective changes to the A6 e-tron, clashing the accepted A6 and RS6.
With Audi gearing to about-face to all-electric cars, the chase is on to alteration its Audi Sport analysis into an electric-only achievement brand. Currently, the achievement cast alone has a distinct electric model, the RS e-tron GT, with the e-tron SUV and Sportback alone cutting an S badge; and the analysis has yet to appearance added almighty derivatives of the new Q4 e-tron and Q4 e-tron Sportback.
That trend is set to about-face rapidly, in band with Audi’s added affairs to action added than 20 electric models common by 2025 and for electrified cars to annual for 40 percent of its sales.
Crucial to the transformation plan will be advancement the array and abyss of Audi’s agency (which today comprises 17 archetypal lines) to abstain accident barter forth the way, so a near-direct backup for every accepted archetypal is on the cards. For example, the afresh appear A6 e-tron abstraction heavily previews the electric almsman to today’s A6, and it will no agnosticism chase its antecedent in actuality offered with a achievement range-topper acquainted by Audi Sport.
Although the A6 e-tron isn’t advised as an actual backup for the A6, it will absorb the agnate articulation in the EV market, and Audi administration acquire all but accepted that an acreage adaptation is on the way, too.
All of which agency the RS6 Avant is due for an electric almsman as well, continuing a archetypal band that stretches aback to the V10-engined C5 bearing of 2002.
While the accepted C8-generation RS6 accustomed two years afterwards the accepted A6, the RS6 e-tron could able-bodied be launched at the aforementioned time as the accepted A6 e-tron in 2023, afterward the archetype set by the e-tron GT and RS e-tron GT.
The two are acceptable to be added carefully akin in agreement of architectonics than the accepted A6 and RS6, too, accustomed the attenuate differences amid accepted and hot versions of accepted Audi EVs. So, apprehend a slight toning bottomward of the RS6’s flared arches, alien auto and arresting rear spoiler.
The approved A6 e-tron will be the additional Audi archetypal to use the premium-focused PPE architectonics for EVs that Audi is co-developing with Porsche (following the Q6 e-tron SUV, a sister archetypal to Porsche’s Macan EV). This will action the adaptability of assorted drivetrain layouts and adeptness outputs.
The A6 e-tron abstraction has one electric motor on anniversary arbor for accumulated outputs of 475hp and 800Nm – beneath adeptness but absolutely as abundant torque as the RS6’s 4.0-litre twin-turbocharged petrol V8.
The RS6 e-tron, meanwhile, will up the stakes to attempt added viably with the full-bore achievement EVs currently actuality developed by BMW’s M analysis and Mercedes-AMG.
Expect it to carefully bout the outputs of the top-rung RS e-tron GT, which packs 598hp (or 646hp in its ‘overboost’ mode) and 830Nm of torque to account the assured added weight of its ample array pack. So, a 0-100kph time of aloof over 3.0sec is awful likely.
It charcoal unclear, however, whether the PPE belvedere – an change of the J1 architectonics acclimated by the e-tron GT and its Porsche Taycan affinity – can board added than two motors. The e-tron S and e-tron S Sportback SUVs use a tri-motor set-up, but they sit on an acclimatized adaptation of the MLB Evo basement that is acclimated by the Volkswagen Group’s better ICE models.
As approved by the A6 e-tron concept, the PPE belvedere can board a 100kWh array pack, which is acceptable for a claimed ambit of added than 700km in this application.
The RS6 e-tron won’t be able to bout that figure, but it will account from the PPE platform’s adeptness to acquire rapid-charging ante of as abundant as 270kW, whereby it could accretion up to 300km of ambit in aloof 10 minutes. Plus, because the array backpack itself is advance out beyond the berth attic and the auto are pushed out to the corners, it will action commensurable autogenous amplitude and amount accommodation to today’s RS6.
Another highlight of the PPE belvedere is that it has been advised to affirm both SUV-sized and lower-slung models in the exceptional segment, so it offers abounding adaptability back it comes to wheelbase breadth and array capacity.
Shifting focus to the Indian market, Audi has alien its all-electric agent agency – the e-tron SUV, e-tron Sportback, e-tron GT, and RS e-tron GT – actuality in the accomplished few months. The ambit is set to added aggrandize abutting year, with the Q4 e-tron acceptable to access by backward 2022.
Audi will be attractive to bolster its approved agency with the re-introduction of models such as the facelifted Q5, the new Q3, the facelift Q7. All three will access as petrol-only models, with Audi no best alms a agent agent advantage for any of its launches in India.
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