German luxury brands have been riding a broth train in China for decades, but those days are slowly approaching. The appearance of local auto manufacturers, especially in the EV sector, imposed Mercedes, BMW and Audi to rethink their strategies in the world’s largest auto market. Of the three, Audi was the first to enter China in 1988. Enter Audi.
During the company’s conference on the results of 2024 sales, CEO Gernot Dolnar announced that the first production of Audi would break the cover in Auto Shanghai. The event is scheduled to take place from April 25 to May 2, but the car will appear on April 23 during the first press day. The name of the model remains a secret, although we know it will be a production version of the Audi E concept for the past year.
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Although the Audi models we know contain all kinds of power engine, Audi will be purely electric. The migraine brand is not an effort for the Volkswagen Group only because cars will be designed with the local auto company SAIC. After launching the first model next month, two additional cars will arrive, the SUV and Sports, during the next two years. As shown in the concept of E, the four symbolic rings will lose these cars, which are replaced by a large “Audi” text written with a capital letter.
If the concept is any indicator, then these Chinese compounds on which they are returned will only look different from the internationally available Audi models. We can describe the opening car in the best way as a combination of Sportback, Swooipy and more practical. Inside, it is more than the screen festival more than the latest cars developed in the Ingolsat, while keeping material buttons to a minimum. However, things can change to production.
E is located on a new advanced digital platform developed with Saic and is slightly longer than A5 Avant but is still shorter than the new A6 Avant. Audi Audi says that thanks to his connection with SAIC, she managed to reduce development time by 30 percent. The first model will be more than the above gasoline vehicles because it uses a dedicated electrical platform. E concept E was a huge wheelbase of 116.1 inches (2950 millimeters), a little longer than the A6 Avant.
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Between the two tramps, the engineers install a large battery of 100 kilowatts a good hour for a distance of 435 miles (700 km) of the range, albeit in optimistic CLTC. The concept guarantees the structure of 800 volts for high -speed charging, and it took 10 minutes to renew the battery enough for a distance of 230 miles (370 km) of the range. Battery feeding two electric motories, providing 764 hp and 590 pounds (800 nm), good for 0 to 62 miles per hour (100 km/h in 3.6 seconds.
Who is the newly established sub -brand targeting? Audi “aims to explicitly call for young customers who enjoy cunning in technology.” These three cars will not be the only products in China because the leading brand in Audi is also building and selling a series of sedans and long SUV. In 2024, delivery operations decreased by 10.9 percent to 653,016 units, but are still more than three times the resulting size in the United States.