The Ingolstadt carmaker’s love/hate relationship with electric cars built in series seems to have finally taken a turn for the better, as the company is said to launch two purely electric vehicles by 2018. The information comes straight from Audi’s CEO Rupert Stadler, who mentioned this rather important piece of information to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper, as quoted by Reuters.
One of the models will be an electric sports car not unlike the defunct 2015 R8 e-tron or other various e-tron concept cars of the past, while the other will be a crossover with a range of more than 310 miles on one charge. Both cars are expected to be part of the multi-billion investment plan that Audi has made from 2015 through 2019, of which around $2.4 billion of will be diverted to electric cars and digital technologies.
It is not yet clear if the proposed sports car and crossover are based on upcoming Audi models with internal-combustion propulsion or if they will get their own architecture, like Mercedes-Benz and its upcoming Ecoluxe platform. Either way, this is not the first time that Audi has had concrete plans of adding a fully electric model to its lineup, all of them having been discarded mainly because of insufficient range or not making a very good business case in those times. With battery technology evolving exponentially and its competitors actively pursuing similar endeavors, it seems that Audi is back on track from this perspective.
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Audi Plans Two Electric Cars by 2018 originally appeared on topspeed.com on Monday, 5 January 2015 07:00 EST.
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