Audi Will Launch A Fully Electric Tesla Model S Rival In 2020
Audi has confirmed a direct rival for the Tesla Model S, and it’s just two years away. The e-tron GT will be a four-door sports coupe built at Audi’s Neckarsulm factory, which currently builds the A4, A5, A6, A7 and A8 lines.
One of 20 planned electric cars Audi has pencilled into its plans pre-2025, it’s going to be “highly dynamic” according to a brief announcement that came as part of the company’s annual State of the Union-style press conference.
During the address, chairman Rupert Stadler said that ‘co-operation’ with Porsche (basically nicking its J1 EV platform) had lowered the potential development costs for such a car by hundreds of millions of Euros and made possible a much shorter production timescale that should see it hit showrooms in 2020.
In concept form, Porsche’s Mission E cars put out as much as 671bhp. That figure will come down a long way in the e-tron GT, but either the driving range will be increased or fewer batteries will be used in order to score a weight drop.
Source: Autocar
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Four rings vs thunder.
Kachigga?
Finally something that could tailgate a tesla.
and run rings around it…
cough**cough nobody cares audi
Investors, the wide public, people who can afford it, people who live in cities with benifits on electric cars like, say, London
cough cough yes, people do care
I do
R8 gone now this…
What a great time to be a PETROLhead
😐😐😐
Oh my god you guys and the inane hate on electric cars 🙄 this doesn’t mean petrol (or even diesel) Audis are dead yet, so get out of that foetal position of yours and enjoy the announcement of a new electric car for once.
With this car Audi makes sure it stays relevant in the far future, so stop your crying
Is the r8 actually being discontinued?
By 2020 Tesla will have the Roadster and probably a P120D, the competition is years behind.
They’ll also probably be bankrupt
No they won’t if hey have the same production issues as with the model 3. Tbh the model 3 won’t even have completed its orders by then.
By 2020 Tesla will have to file for bankruptcy if they don’t fix their production bottlenecks
i think we have a very interesting future boys…
Soon to happen, Audi E-S and Audi E-RS models.
Audi RES
Can’t wait.
Toooooo late audi
meh