Monday, December 29, 2014

Audi plans to launch 2 EV by 2018


Audi has given the green light to the development of two electric vehicles are expected to be marketed around 2018.
The announcement was made last week by the CEO of Audi, Rupert Stadler in an interview with a newspaper portal in Germany, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. One of these vehicles is the model sports car, so we may finally get to see the model R8 e-tron version of the R8 model based on the second generation.
The second car, Audi said in a statement that it is an SAV (sport activity vehicle) in which this model was most likely will be a competitor to the Tesla Model X model that will be marketed by the third quarter of next year. Stadler said, SAV is able to go as far as 500km before running out of battery and needs to be recharged.
Also despite the announcement of the presence of two of the EV model, Audi also revealed plans to invest a total of € 2 billion until 2019 in the development of electric guidance system (electric drive system) and also digital technology.

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