Audi e-tron GT Concept

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New Audi E-tron GT teased ahead of LA show debut

Audi electric model aims to outsprint Tesla’s Model S P100D and will have “some Porsche genes”

Audi has released teaser images of the new E-tron GT four-door concept ahead of its reveal at the Los Angeles motor show this week.

The new images of the electric sports car, which is due in 2020, include it sporting a livery similar to that used for the e-tron SUV ahead of its reveal earlier this year. They provide the clearest look yet at the four-door coupe ahead of its appearance in LA tomorrow, although no further information was released.

The production version of the E-tron GT will have a similar range to the new E-tron SUV but be “focused more towards power”, according to the firm’s powertrain boss.

The E-tron SUV offers a 248-mile range measured on the new WLTP test and Siegfried Pint told Autocar the GT will achieve a similar number. But he added that the vehicle will be “steered towards performance”. In the most powerful boost mode, the E-tron has a claimed 0-60mph time of 5.5sec, with a top speed of 124mph. By comparison, the rival Tesla Model S P100D has a 0-62mph time of 2.7sec and a 155mph top speed. It is understood that Audi will endeavour to make the E-tron GT beat those figures.

The E-tron GT will be built on the same J1 platform as the Porsche Taycan EV that will be launched next year.

Audi technical development boss Ulrich Widmann said the E-tron GT will “get some genes from Porsche and add a lot of Audi genes”.

The E-tron GT will be the first electric model in the E-tron range to get a ‘flat-floor solution’ rather than the ‘high-floor solutions’ seen in the E-tron and upcoming E-tron Sportback, Widmann said.

The model will also be the first Audi EV to allow for 350kW fast charging, according to product manager Johannes Eckstein. That means it will be capable of charging to 80% in under 12 minutes.

Audi first confirmed plans for the electric four-door car in March – two years after Autocar had scooped the model – at the company’s annual press conference.

Audi has also described the upcoming four-door as “highly dynamic” and said it showed the direction of the company’s performance division.

The E-tron GT will be produced at the firm’s Neckarsulm factory in Germany. It is one of 10 Audi electric models that are due before 2025.

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/new-audi-e-tron-gt-teased-ahead-la-show-debut

 

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Audi e-tron GT Concept

With the electric powered Audi e-tron GT concept a four-door coupe is making its debut as a show car. The volume-production counterpart is set to follow in approximately two years, and the concept will make its film debut in Marvel Studios' Avengers 4, set to be released in theaters summer 2019.

The next electric Audi is being launched, following in the footsteps of the Audi e-tron SUV and the Audi e-tron Sportback slated for 2019. This time with a flat-floor architecture that provides for exciting proportions and a low center of gravity. 434 kW (590 horsepower) ensure performance fit for a sports car. The torque is transferred to the wheels via the quattro permanent all-wheel drive with torque vectoring, as you would expect for such a dynamic Audi. The performance subsidiary Audi Sport GmbH is responsible for subsequently transforming the car into a volume-production model.

Inspiration drawn from the wind tunnel: design and body

Flat, wide and with a long wheelbase - those are the proportions of a classic Gran Turismo. And the Audi e-tron GT concept reflects these with its 4.96-meter (16.3 ft) length, 1.96-meter (6.4 ft) width and 1.38-meter (4.5 ft) height. The lightweight body of the four-door coupe is manufactured using a multi-material construction. Here you have a roof section made from carbon along with numerous aluminum components and supporting elements made from high-strength steel. The technology for this automobile was developed in close collaboration with Porsche. Design and character are packed full of unmistakable Audi DNA.

https://www.netcarshow.com/audi/2018-e-tron_gt_concept/

 

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The E-tron GT will be built on the same J1 platform as the Porsche Taycan EV that will be launched next year.

Yeah, that's what it looks like; a re-skinned Porsche.

 

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Audi E-tron GT concept unveiled as electric flagship

Electric sports coupé is based on same platform as Porsche Taycan and will arrive in 2020

It will offer 248 miles of range on the WLTP cycle and, most notably, be capable of charging at 350kW. This will dramatically reduce charging times, meaning that an 80% fast charge will be achievable in under 20 minutes. Currently, a similar level charge takes more than double that time.

For at-home charging, as well as using a traditional cable, Audi will offer a wireless charging option via an induction plate.

The GT’s two synchronous motors, one at the front and one at the rear, produce a collective 582bhp power output, enabling it to accelerate from 0-62mph in 3.5sec with a top speed of 149mph. Torque is transferred to the wheels via the quattro permanent all-wheel drive with torque vectoring.

“The acceleration isn’t important. It’s being able to reproduce that acceleration five, six, seven times,” said Audi Sport product marketing boss Stefan Holischka, alluding to some electric performance cars that struggle to replicate acceleration times more than once due to battery limitations.

The GT’s 96kWh battery takes up the entire underfloor area between the front and rear axles, giving the car a centre of gravity comparable to the R8.

There is also all-wheel steering, all of which creates a “sports car-like agility and precision,” said Audi. “The 96kWh battery is the perfect combination for performance, charging time and range,” added Holischka.

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/...-e-tron-gt-concept-unveiled-electric-flagship

 

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Audi wins the Electric car styling game.

 

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Finally a good looking electric car from a mainstream manufacturer that we'd likely actually get in SA.

What is particularly impressive is that 0-80% charge time of just 20 minutes,very practical,can be used to travel long distance now,stop for a 20 minute break every 3 to 400 km and off you go!

 

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Sleek new Audi e-tron GT concept arrives sporting 434 kW

Audi has revealed its new e-tron GT concept at the 2018 Los Angeles Auto Show, revealing that a volume-production version is scheduled to follow in “around two years”.

The all-electric production model will follow the e-tron SUV and the Audi e-tron Sportback scheduled to launch in 2019. The GT concept measures 4 960 mm long, 1 960 mm wide and 1 380 mm tall, with a wheelbase of 2 900 mm.

Interestingly, the firm describes the platform underpinning the concept as a “joint project of the development departments at Audi and Porsche”.

The four-door show car makes 434 kW courtesy of separate (permanently excited synchronous) electric motors fitted to the front and rear axles. Audi says the vehicle “should accelerate” from zero to 100 km/h in “around 3,5 seconds”, before hitting 200 km/h in “just over 12 seconds”. The top speed is capped at 240 km/h.

Audi claims the range of the four-seater concept car is more than 400 km (on the new WLTP cycle). Energy comes from a 90+ kWh lithium-ion battery, which takes up the entire underfloor area between the front and rear axles. The Ingolstadt-based firm says the battery in the e-tron GT concept can be charged using a cable or using wireless charging.

The Audi e-tron GT concept offers two luggage compartments. At the rear, the boot can store a claimed 450 litres with the second compartment under the bonnet can hold another 100 litres.

https://www.carmag.co.za/news/sleek-new-audi-e-tron-gt-concept-arrives-sporting-434-kw/

 

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I do actually prefer the styling of this over the Porsche.

 

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Yeah, that's what it looks like; a re-skinned Porsche.

looks very panamera-ish

 

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looks very panamera-ish

"The Audi GT e-tron will be built on the Porsche Taycan platform. "

 

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Audi E-tron GT concept 2018: first drive of electric sports saloon

Is Audi’s apparent confidence in its electric four-door coupé justified? We find out with a prototype drive in downtown LA rush-hour traffic

Driving a one-off concept car is, unfortunately, often less glamorous and exciting than you’d think.

Time behind the wheel can be very restricted, sometimes to a couple of hundred yards in a straight line or two laps of a car park at 10mph. You’re surrounded by minders who are understandably nervous at the thought of a careless buffoon climbing behind the wheel and wrecking a near-priceless piece of their brand’s design history, and any hint of rain always stops play.

There are rare exceptions, though, and our time driving Audi’s new E-tron GT was one of them.

After last month’s Los Angeles motor show, where the E-tron GT made its debut, Audi pulled the concept, claimed to be worth €5 million (£4.5m), out onto the streets and gave a select group of journalists the chance to take it for a spin. On the public road. In downtown LA. During rush hour. Escorted through red lights by police officers on motorcycles. This sort of thing doesn’t happen often.

It’s perhaps unsurprising that Audi was so keen to let us try the E-tron GT in a real-world environment. After all, it may officially be a concept, but those involved tell us it’s 95% finished visually, and a significant amount of the development work for the car’s oily (well, sparky) bits has been completed. The electric four-door coupé is due to arrive in production form in around 18 months, with only a handful of small-scale changes from the prototype.

The E-tron GT will be the third EV from Audi to roll out after the recently launched E-tron and upcoming E-tron Sportback SUVs. That’s three out of a planned 12 bespoke electric Audis due to be launched before 2025, as part of a €14bn (£12.6bn) investment plan for one brand alone. The sum itself is a fraction of the simply vast cash reserves being ploughed into transforming a number of the Volkswagen Group’s marques into mass-volume electric car makers.

Part of the reason for this is that the VW Group needs to be seen to be reacting in a wide-reaching way to the infamous Dieselgate scandal. Audi bosses will trot out the official line that diesel remains an important part of its range – and, for the time being, it still is. But, behind the scenes, they know that the sooner they can distance themselves from the fuel, the better.

Then there’s the Tesla factor. The controversial Californian electric car firm has enjoyed a meteoric rise in the past few years, pioneering not just with large, long-range and high-performance EVs, but also desirable ones. It’s still only churning out about one car for every 18 Audi makes, but let’s not forget that at the turn of the decade Tesla was posting annual sales in the hundreds.

The significance of Audi launching the E-tron GT in California cannot be ignored. This is the Tesla fanzone: the increasingly environmentally conscious, tech-savvy state takes in nearly 50% of the US’s total EV sales, and you can’t walk for more than two minutes through LA’s financial district without catching sight of a Model S, X or 3 with an ‘amusing’ personal numberplate.

Rocking up at the on-trend kerbside event room Audi has hired for the day, the E-tron GT immediately catches the eye. You don’t have to be Poirot to work out the inspiration behind the four-door coupé, occupying as it does roughly the same footprint as a Model S and operating at the same price and performance level. But the design, to my eyes, is far more arresting than the now five-year-old Tesla.

First, there are the proportions. The GT is strikingly low and squat for an electric car, particularly one that’s meant to be able to seat five in production spec. Exterior design head Andreas Mindt claims that balancing the space demands of a chunky 96kWh underfloor battery with the need to seat two adults in the rear in comfort was “perhaps the biggest challenge”. But it’s a challenge that was met, with the E-tron GT’s roofline a full two inches lower than Audi’s comparable A7 Sportback. The trade-off is the car’s near-two-metre width, necessary for the battery’s substantial surface area.

Audi hasn’t yet rolled out the cameras-as-mirrors system that’s an option on the E-tron SUV, for two reasons. First, it’s still not a legal set-up in the US for a production model. And second, the traditional mirror, set to be larger on the production car than on the prototype, pushes air away from the rear end, which, according to the designers, has allowed them freedom to pen the car’s distinctive haunches that jut out and curve around the back.

The prototype E-tron GT’s doors are opened by a touch capacitive padlock logo mounted on the B-pillar, but again that’s been junked for production in favour of plain old handles, necessary for safety reasons.

Step inside and you’ll find a cabin that doesn’t look or feel a million miles away from production – not everything is functional, yet the fit and finish already feel better than in your average Tesla product, let alone any other prototype we’ve tried. There’s bad news for the touchscreen-phobic, though: Audi has increased its display screen count to four, including a new configurable one mounted up by the rear-view mirror.

Despite designers insistently referring to it as “more of a sports car than a sedan”, there’s sufficient space for four adults to travel in comfort with suitably low seating positions, although six-footers will brush the headlining in the rear.

But enough about head room: what about the powertrain? Well, Audi has provided some conveniently rounded figures for the concept that are targeted for production. A 0-62mph time of 3.5sec, 0-120mph in under 12sec and a range of 250 miles on the new WLTP test regime. All Tesla-baiting figures that should be easily deliverable by 2020.

Engaging drive in the E-tron GT is as simple as selecting D on the new push-button gear selector (set to gradually replace the rocker gearshift in current Audis), stabbing a button marked with a chequered flag on the wheel and pulling away.

Of course, the only noise registered from inside comes from the burbling motors of the police escort bikes – ridden by retired officers, if you were wondering why they are catering for spoiled journalists rather than out catching criminals.

The lack of squeaks and rattles as we negotiate our first crossroad is very unlike a concept car. The whirr of the motor isn’t as well insulated as it will be for production, but its response in our admittedly low-speed situation is as crisp as you’d expect from a brief stab of the accelerator.

The steering feels consistently weighted and accurate, and the brakes seem unusually consistent for a regenerative set-up.

Yet something that’s clearly not finished is the suspension: the GT will have double wishbones combined with air springs for production, and the current steel spring and damper system is seriously stiff, pogoing over broken and undulating surfaces. It’s likely that the ride height will increase slightly for production. The potential for this car to offer a reasonably dynamic driving experience is there: after all, it has a lower centre of gravity than an R8, rear-wheel steering and electric torque vectoring.

Chances to test the handling, outright performance and, indeed, the range are limited here. The only firm conclusion I can draw while we wait at the lights for the photographer to set up is that the air-con isn’t functioning. It’s November but in the mid-20s, and the glass roof is gently cooking the GT’s occupants. What’s easier to gauge is the amount of attention from the smartphones being pointed at our car by passers-by, even in a city known for its fair share of dramatic public spectacles.

As we pull up back where we started, the car’s minder lets slip that we will be seeing the E-tron GT on the move again soon – as Tony Stark’s ride in the next Avengers film, due for release in April.

While the public will decide if the blockbuster marketing pays off, this early go behind the wheel delivers a promising insight into Audi’s battery-powered future.

Audi E-tron GT concept specification

Where Los Angeles, US Price £90,000 (est) On sale Mid-2020 Engine Dual electric motors Power 582bhp Torque 600lb ft (est) Battery 96kWh lithium ion Gearbox Single-speed, direct drive Kerb weight Unspecified Top speed 149mph 0-62mph 3.5sec Range 250 miles CO2 0g/km Rivals Tesla Model S, Porsche Taycan

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/...ncept-2018-first-drive-electric-sports-saloon

 

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Audi E-tron GT set for 2020 LA debut

Design boss confirms production version of electric flagship to make first public appearance next year

The long-awaited Audi E-tron GT will be unveiled at next year’s LA motor show, according to Audi design boss Marc Lichte.

Although Lichte did not explicitly name the upcoming car, his promise that “in one more year here we will present our coupé” was almost certainly a reference to the production model of the GT, which was previewed in concept form in 2018.

The four-door sports saloon, sister car to the Porsche Taycan, will be the third of Audi’s stand-alone electric models, following the E-tron and the recently revealed E-tron Sportback. A compact electric model is also due. By 2025, Audi will have 12 electric models.

Audi E-tron GT set for 2020 LA debut | Autocar

Ingolstadt's electric grand tourer will make its first public appearance at this year's LA motor show

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Audi Sport to go electric with RS-branded E-tron GT

Porsche Taycan sibling is one of four electrified Sport models in development alongside an RS e-tron and plug-in RS4 Avant

Audi Sport is ramping up its electrification offensive under new management, and will next year introduce the RS branding to a battery-powered model in the form of the production E-tron GT saloon.

The sister model to the Porsche Taycan, set to be offered in regular, S and high-performance RS trims throughout its existence, is also likely to be joined by an RS version of Audi’s recently revealed E-tron Sportback. A number of plug-in hybrid RS models are also on the cards, while a new E-tron version of the current-generation R8 is tipped to appear next year as a prelude to a possible allelectric R8 replacement in a few years’ time.

Audi Sport to go electric with RS-branded E-tron GT | Autocar

Porsche Taycan sibling is one of four electrified Sport models in development alongside an RS e-tron and plug-in RS4 Avant

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2021 Audi E-tron GT: electric flagship spotted for first time

EV grand tourer will debut at LA motor show, with disguised prototypes similar to original concept

The Audi E-tron GT has been seen on public roads for the first time, ahead of an expected reveal at the 2020 LA motor show.

The electric grand tourer, sister car to the Porsche Taycan, isn't set to hit showrooms until 2021, but the first camouflaged prototypes have now been spied undergoing testing in Germany.

It appears that the design of the original 2018 concept is largely retained for production, with fully-camouflaged prototype cars seen sharing the same lines and proportions. Notable differences would be the presence of door handles, which were absent on the concept.

New Audi E-tron GT: Porsche Taycan sibling seen ahead of LA debut | Autocar

Production version of EV grand tourer being readied for 2020 LA motor show debut, as prototypes show design closely linked to concept

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Audi E-tron GT set for 2020 LA debut

Ingolstadt's electric grand tourer will make its first public appearance at this year's LA motor show

The long-awaited Audi E-tron GT will make its public debut at this year's LA motor show, According to Audi design boss Marc Lichte.

Although Lichte did not explicitly name the upcoming car, his promise at the 2019 LA show that “in one more year here we will present our coupé” was almost certainly a reference to the production model of the GT, which was initially previewed in concept form in 2018.

Audi E-tron GT set for 2020 LA debut | Autocar

Ingolstadt's electric grand tourer will make its first public appearance at this year's LA motor show

www.autocar.co.uk

 

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New Audi E-tron GT: Porsche Taycan sibling seen ahead of LA debut

Production version of EV grand tourer being readied for 2020 LA motor show debut, as prototypes show design closely linked to concept

Audi's all-electric E-tron GT has been spotted in the closest disguised shots yet ahead of an expected production debut at the 2020 Los Angeles motor show.

The EV grand tourer, a sibling to the Porsche Taycan, isn't set to hit showrooms until early 2021 after the unveiling. While the physical LA show itself hangs in the balance due to the coronavirus pandemic, the new model should still be unveiled then.

New Audi E-tron GT: Porsche Taycan sibling seen ahead of LA debut | Autocar

Production version of EV grand tourer being readied for 2020 LA motor show debut, as prototypes show design closely linked to concept

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