Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Audi is establishing a high-voltage battery development center at the Neckarsulm site. Audi is already developing high-voltage batteries for plug-in hybrids (PHEV) in Neckarsulm. High-voltage batteries and electric engines make up an important strategic component of future value creation in a transformed auto industry.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2020

Globally, by 2025, Audi is aiming to have 30 electrified models on sale, with 20 of those vehicles fully electric. Next, it will introduce the Audi Q4 e-tron SUV and e-tron GT performance sedan, which have already been shown as concept vehicles. MLB evo: The first Audi electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Audi will be competing in the famous Dakar Rally for the first time in 2022 with an innovative prototype. The alternative drive concept combines an electric drivetrain with a high-voltage battery and a highly efficient energy converter for the first time. The vehicle will be driven by a powerful electric drivetrain.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2021

Audi and FAW are forming a new new cooperation company for the future production of PPE-based electric vehicles in Changchun in the northeast of China. PPE will take on the role in the world of electric vehicles that the modular longitudinal platform (MLB) holds in vehicles powered by combustion engines. FAW Audi Sales Co.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2018

The 2019 Audi e-tron, the first all-electric vehicle from Audi, will make its global debut on 17 September at an event in San Francisco. US customers will be able to configure and reserve their 2019 Audi e-tron on that date as well. Audi expects the e-tron in showrooms in the first part of 2019.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Audi AG plans an outlay of approximately €37 billion for research and development expenditure and investment in property, plant and equipment over the next five years (2020 to 2024). The manufacturer is planning an upfront expenditure of €12 billion solely for electric mobility—more than ever before. —Alexander Seitz.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2018

Audi aims to sell approximately 800,000 fully electric cars and plug-in hybrids in the year 2025. At today’s Annual General Meeting of Audi AG, the Board of Management is presenting the updated “Audi.Vorsprung.2025.” —Rupert Stadler, Chairman of the Board of Management of Audi AG.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2019

At the 2019 Geneva Motor Show, Audi is showing four battery-electric drive vehicles, the series versions of which will celebrate their premiere by the end of 2020. The first member of the new quartet of battery-electric vehicles, the Audi e-tron, will be supplied to customers soon. Audi e-tron GT concept.

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Teslarati

JUNE 22, 2021

Audi will now phase out gas engines by the year 2033, CEO Markus Duesmann announced at the Berlin Climate Conference earlier today. Duesmann said that “Audi is ready to make its decisive and powerful move into the electric age,” finally accepting the challenge of ditching gas engines for electric ones.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 3, 2021

The US Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy recently published a note highlighting that nearly 50 light-duty plugin electric vehicle models were on the US market in 2020. It included a chart showing the progress from year to year (above).

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Top electric vehicle news of the past day or so has included Nissan teasing two new fully electric models, a new electric Audi factory in China, and Canada reaching 5% EV market share. Electric Vehicles Startup retrofits a Tesla Model S with a 750-mile battery pack Lunaz grows production and […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 12, 2023

Volkswagen Group has big ambitions of becoming the top selling electric vehicle producer in the world. China’s the largest BEV market in the world — larger than the rest of the world combined […]. But the good news is that it’s sprinting toward that goal, and it’s already #1 in Europe and #4 in the USA.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 19, 2024

Andre Konsbruck, Vice President of Sales Overseas at Audi AG believes that more than 50 percent of luxury cars sold in India by 2028 will be electric vehicles and hence the German carmaker is very actively looking at localising electric vehicles in the country. With availability of more products, the EV penetration will go up.”

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Teslarati

JUNE 23, 2022

Audi CEO Markus Duesmann is pushing against politicians in Europe who oppose the bans internal combustion engine ban in 2035 while resolidifying his company’s plans to only offer fully-electric vehicles from 2026 on. “From 2026, Audi will only be launching purely electric models.”

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 16, 2022

It seems the German automotive market has bottomed out. Sales of full electric vehicles (BEVs) were up in September by 33% year over year (YoY). After growing 3% in August, September brought a solid 14% increase in sales, while plugins grew even faster.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Despite smaller growth rates, the European passenger plugin vehicle market is still in the fast lane. This performance is even more impressive when we consider that the overall auto market continued to fall off a cliff — down […]. More than 221,000 plugin vehicles were registered in November — which is +33% year over year (YoY).

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Baua Electric

MARCH 21, 2024

Audi is joining the race as automakers gear up to introduce new, lower-cost EV models. Audi plots a new lower-cost EV, an electric A3 or Q3 After unveiling the new Q6 e-tron this week, its next-gen premium mid-size electric SUV, Audi, is planning a smaller, lower-cost EV.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Despite smaller growth rates, the European passenger plugin vehicle market is still in the fast lane. This performance is even more impressive when we consider that the overall auto market continues to fall off a cliff — down […]. More than 184,000 plugin vehicles were registered in October — which is +26% year over year (YoY).

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 3, 2023

The European automotive market is back in the black, with a 17% growth rate in November. Looking at the plugin vehicle market in particular, things are also better. […]. It seems the worst of the automotive component crisis is over.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 28, 2021

The European passenger plugin vehicle market continues to rise. The plugin vehicle share of the overall auto market in April was 15% (7.1% fully electric vehicles), keeping the 2021 plugin vehicle […]. There were more than 159,000 plugin vehicle registrations in April, and 616,000 in the year to date (YTD).

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

It seems the German automotive market has bottomed out, having grown 3% in August, while plugins are also recovering. Sales of full electric vehicles (BEVs) were up in August by 13% year over year (YoY). There were 31,734 BEV registrations last month, representing 16% of the overall market.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 23, 2022

With several disruptions affecting it, the overall German automotive market is still in the red, with the market dropping 11% last month year over year. And it seems all this doom and gloom has finally got to EVs, with sales of full electric vehicles (BEVs) dropping in June by 4% year over year (YoY). There […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 20, 2022

With several disruptions affecting it, the overall German automotive market is still in the red. The market dropped 13% last month year over year. Sales of full electric vehicles (BEVs) were up in July by 13% year over year (YoY). It seems all this doom and gloom is affecting plugins differently, however.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 25, 2022

September confirmed the trend with a 9% increase in market sales, signaling that the worst of the production constraints might be over. After over a year in the red, Europe was back in black in August, with a 3% growth rate. Although, with an energy-derived recession knocking on the door, this uptick might not last […].

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2022

Designed as an open vehicle platform, the MEB electric platform and its components allows car manufacturers to build their portfolio of electrified vehicles, quickly and cost-effectively. Mahindra is a pioneer in the electric mobility space in India and a great partner for our MEB Electric Platform.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2023

Participating Volkswagen dealerships will offer Redwood bins for easy and safe drop off of rechargeable batteries and consumer devices, including cell phones, laptops, tablets, cordless power tools, electric toothbrushes, wireless headphones, and old vacuum batteries.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Audi’s e-tron quattro battery-electric SUV concept, which made its formal debut at IAA in Frankfurt ( earlier post ), is a strong indicator of Audi’s series-production electric SUV due in 2018—especially in terms of the powertrain. Audi has several development models already on the road. Audi's MLB.

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Baua Electric

MAY 23, 2024

Although its first fully electric supercar is not due out until next year, Ferrari is warning rivals about incoming Chinese EVs. These measures could severely impact luxury automakers like Porsche , Audi, and Range Rover, which represent most of China’s auto imports. The market in China is still not mature,” he explained.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 13, 2022

6% of US auto sales is up from EVs' 2.2% of US auto sales in Q3 2020.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2022

Redwood) will collaborate to create a supply chain to recycle Volkswagen and Audi electric vehicle batteries in the United States, with the goal of providing accessible and more sustainable electric mobility for American drivers. Volkswagen Group of America is aiming for 55% of its US sales to be fully-electric by 2030.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 16, 2021

After reporting on top electric vehicle sales in 10 European countries, a reader indicated it would be even more interesting to see the combined sales numbers of different automotive groups or alliances in that region. It was an interesting idea, so I ran with it. Aside from being another interesting way to combine and look […].

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Current EV

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

One of the most successful German-engineered luxury automotive brands, Audi AG delivered about 1.845 million vehicles globally in 2019. Audi sold just over 224,000 vehicles in 2019 and launched the brand’s first fully electric vehicle, the Audi e-tron – one of four fully electric models coming to the U.S.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 10, 2024

Despite solid growth in China (+91% YOY), its second-largest market, it wasn’t enough to offset weaker sales in Europe (-24%) and the US (-16%). 3 (26,100), Audi Q4 e-tron (22,800), Skoda Enyaq (14,000), Audi Q8 e-tron (9,600), and VW ID.Buzz (7,000). The Group’s top-selling models included the VW ID.4/ID.5 5 (34,600), ID.3

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2020

BMW Group plans to have put one million electric vehicles on the roads by the end of 2021. The goal is to increase this figure to seven million by 2030, of which two-thirds will be fully-electric. Audi also recently announced it would leave Formula E. Earlier post.).

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 31, 2021

share of the overall auto market). That made it the plugin market’s third best month ever. Fully electric vehicles (BEVs) represented 66% of plugin registrations in July, in line with the year-to-date (YTD) tally. In total, there […].

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Volkswagen intends to have eight manufacturing facilities in Europe that are completely catered to the company’s transition to electric vehicles across its many brands, including Audi, Porsche, and the Volkswagen ID. The German automaker has built electric vehicles on its dedicated ID. ” Partial production of the ID.3

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2010

Drivetrain of the Audi A8 parallel hybrid. Audi presented the A8 parallel hybrid as a technology concept at the Geneva Motor Show. The technology architecture of the A8 hybrid previews that of the production Q5 hybrid, due to reach the market in late 2010/early 2011, Audi said. During electrical—i.e. Earlier post.)

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