Audi e-tron Sportback – four rings and socket

24 April 2017

Shanghai the dealership acted as a platform for displaying electric Audi e-tron Sportback

Audi has unveiled in Shanghai the concept of the Audi e-tron Sportback concept. For the company of the Ingolstadt is for the second all-electric concept, which the creators themselves have reacted to the class Gran Turismo describe it – quick, comfortable and fun with anywhere in the world.

"Work on the serial Audi e-tron will begin in 2018, this will be the first electric car in its segment, suitable for everyday use. When run in 500 kms to charge the special electric drive, we will try to make this SUV an indispensable product of the next decade. In the plans are already in 2019, the appearance of the production version of the Audi e-tron Sportback is an emotional version of the big coupé, taking a look at which, you will understand that it's electric," said Rupert Stadler, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Audi AG.

Well-known conservatism of Audi about the appearance of their products, it touched and of this concept. In it clearly traces the basic motives of corporate design, which cannot be confused with anything different – the narrow headlights, 8-sided panel, "singleframe", replacing the grille and the four rings with lights.

One of the reasons of pride, Audi can call their exterior lighting system, clearly distinguishing the car and day night. Have led lights the fully digital control that allows you to more efficiently optimize the performance of the lighting system. Led projectors Minuscule Digital Matrix literally leave a mark on the road surface, interacting with the environment.

Narrow strips of led headlamps and strips of daytime running lights added exterior speakers e-tron. And under with DRL right and the left hand placed on 250 LEDs, which can be used as a means of communication while driving.

The interior of the Audi e-tron made in bright colours, alluding to the what the management of the car is nothing complicated. On the dashboard has three displays, one of which replaces the traditional instrument panel. Central and largest display, is responsible for media navigation and under it is the touch screen less. Using the "small" screen the driver communicates with various onboard systems and settings.

The Audi e-tron Sportback uses the configuration of power units, which should appear on future production models with permanent all-wheel drive: single motor on the front axle and two rear. Specifically on the e-tron a total power output of the engine is 320 kW, and peak – 370 kW, which provides acceleration to 97 km/h in just 4.5 seconds. AKB (power 95 kW∙h), hidden in the bottom of the car and having the water cooling allows you to drive on a single charge of about 500 km.

Placing the battery exactly between the axles of the concept, the engineers got a low centre of gravity and achieved almost perfect weight distribution on the axles of 52:48 (front/rear). Because of this, managed to achieve unprecedented manageability and security traffic than other cars in this segment.

The concept of the Audi e-tron Sportback has a huge 23-inch wheels with unique design, designed to emphasize the class of vehicle and its purpose. As for the dimensions of e-tron Sportback, they are impressive: length 4900 mm, width 1980 mm, height 1530 mm and the length of the wheelbase 2930 mm. On the basis of digits – the closest in the size of the car is the current model range is the Audi A7.

Instead of exterior mirrors in Audi e-tron installed a rear view camera. Moreover, in addition to obvious advantages in aerodynamics and noise, according to compared with classic mirrors camera not create your case blind zone. Image from the camera is displayed on screens in the door panels.

We can only wait for 2018 first year, when it was promised to put in the first all-electric Audi, the forerunner of which was the e-tron Quattro (shown in 2015), and then of 2019, year of exit in light of the production model Audi e-tron Sportback.

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