Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

is leading the development of the Small BEV family for the Volkswagen Group and will start producing fully electric vehicles by 2025 for different brands. SEAT will invest €3 billion in the conversion of its Martorell plant for the production of small EVs. The plant has a total surface area of 2.8 million square meters.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2021

With its investment planning for the next five years, Audi is accelerating the transition toward becoming a provider of networked and sustainable premium mobility. Of this, Audi is earmarking about €18 billion for electrification and hybridization alone, thereby emphasizing its clear commitment to electromobility.

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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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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2018

Audi’s first fully electric series-produced model, the Audi e-tron, will be available in Germany starting at €80,000 (US$98,800), said Rupert Stadler, Chairman of the Board of Management, at Audi’s annual press conference in Ingolstadt. The Audi e-tron Sportback will follow in 2019. Sketch of e-tron GT.

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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

APRIL 5, 2023

Starting on 22 April (Earth Day), Volkswagen of America and Redwood Materials will offer consumers a convenient way to recycle rechargeable devices or lithium-ion batteries. If adopted across the industry, battery recycling programs like this could help reduce battery costs as well as the need to mine and ship raw materials.

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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. Key to the collaboration is a holistic approach to the battery lifecycle.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The Supervisory Board of Porsche AG has decided to manufacture the next generation of the Macan as a fully electric series. This will be the first all-electric compact SUV from Porsche, and is due to roll off the assembly line in the Leipzig site at the start of the next decade. Current generation Macan.

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EV Specifications

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Audi commences manufacture of electric motors for the Premium Platform Electric (PPE). The newly developed electric motors will be used for the first time in the Audi Q6 e-tron series. Among other provisions, the company has set up its own battery.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Audi and Umicore have successfully completed the test phase of their strategic research cooperation. The result is that more than 90 of the cobalt and nickel in the high-voltage batteries of the Audi e-tron can be recovered. The recovered materials will be used in new battery cells. Earlier post.)

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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

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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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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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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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2018

The Audi e-tron prototype combines power, efficiency and range. With a system output of up to 300 kW, the full-size SUV with a fully electric drive accelerates from zero to 100 km/h (62.1 mi) on one battery charge. As a result, energy is fed back to the battery in practically all normal braking maneuvers.

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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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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.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Volkswagen has boosted the budget of Project Trinity as it plans to electrify its production facilities across Europe. 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.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Flanked by the Audi A3 Sportback e-tron ( earlier post ) on one side and the Audi concept e-tron quattro ( earlier post ) on the other, Audi of America president Scott Keogh used his press conference speech at the Los Angeles Auto Show yesterday to declare that the brand is targeting at least 25% of its US sales to be e-tron—i.e.,

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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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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2020

BMW Group has always used Formula E as a tech lab for production. The same engineers who develop the drivetrains for electric production vehicles are also responsible for the drivetrains in the race cars. In the future, greater emphasis will be placed on the comprehensive scaling of the offering and global production.

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EV Central

JANUARY 26, 2023

This is Audi’s new Activesphere, a fully electric concept off-roader there to appeal to your sense of luxury go-anywhere adventuring, all in zero-emission silence. ” The fundamentals Audi’s used its Premium Platform Electric (PPE), co-developed with Porsche, to underpin the Activesphere.

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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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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2018

Automotive and industrial supplier Schaeffler predicts that in 2030 some 30% of all newly registered passenger cars will be fully electric and 40% will be propelled by hybrid powertrains—i.e., 70% of all passenger cars will be using at least one electric motor as a source of propulsion.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Audi—collaborating with Bosch, RWTH Aachen University, and others— launched the e performance project at the Audi Electronics Venture GmbH (AEV) on 1 October 2009 with the objective of developing a scalable systems architecture for electric-powered cars that also included a plug-in hybrid drive. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2022

As part of its 2022 Annual Media Conference, Audi is presenting the next model in its future electrically powered A6 Luxury Class: the Avant. Audi introduced the Audi A6 Sportback with an electric drive system almost a year ago at the Shanghai Auto Show in April 2021 ( earlier post ). the wagon format).

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Baua Electric

APRIL 7, 2024

More energy-dense batteries coming in the near future aren’t just destined for fully electric vehicles. 2024 Rivian R1T Could the safest pickup be fully electric? 2025 Ford 3-row SUV – Ford on Thursday announced delays for two key EVs —its next-generation T3 electric truck and its three-row electric SUV.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2018

Other plans include developing a national battery-charging infrastructure and all business activities that are related to it. One of the major undertakings in efforts to shape the future of mobility involves the introduction of future technologies into the series production of the Volkswagen brand’s I.D.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

In addition, Volkswagen brought a pair of the hydrogen Passats to the Los Angeles Auto Show for test drives (and Audi brought a pair of its A7 Sportback h-tron hydrogen fuel cell plug-in hybrids for drives, as well.). The fuel cell and battery power an electric motor adapted from the e-Golf. Passat HyMotion in LA.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 2, 2023

The company’s plant in South Carolina (which builds the S60) is also presently being converted to focus on battery-powered SUVs intended for Volvo and Polestar. We will naturally need to evolve and consolidate our line-up as we prioritise [sic] fully electric cars and make this technological transition,” Volvo told Autocar in a statement. "As

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2020

As this proportion grows, however, the basic dilemma associated with these renewable energy sources remains: first, electricity cannot always be supplied when it is required and second, on sunny days and in high-wind conditions, there is often a lack of capacity for storing the energy generated.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2021

The 2022 Audi e-tron S and e-tron S Sportback ( earlier post ) are making their way to the US this fall, adding to Audi’s portfolio of all-electric performance vehicles. Nearly two inches wider than the e-tron and e-tron Sportback models, the e-tron S is the only Audi “S” model with wider bodywork than the standard model.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Audi unveiled its all-electric Audi e-tron mid-size SUV—its first fully electric production model—in an event in San Francisco. The two electric motors accelerate the e-tron from 0-60 mph in 5.5 inches, the Audi e-tron has ample space for five occupants and cargo.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2021

A new software update will extend the range of MY 2019 or 2020 Audi e-trons by up to 20 kilometers. This means that Audi isn’t limiting efficiency increases to new models, but also boosting the efficiency of cars already on the road. The update is now available and can be installed at Audi service centers.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Audi A7 Sportback h-tron. Ulrich Hackenberg, Member of the Board of Management for Technical Development at Audi, during a fuel cell technology workshop held at the LA show, and may be ready to talk about that technology by the end of next year. Fuel cell technology is running in comepetition with long-range battery electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2018

Audi has produced the Audi e-tron Vision Gran Turismo concept car, which it will deploy as a race taxi in Formula E starting with the race in Rome on Saturday 14 April. Audi has been working together with Sony and Polyphony Digital—the creators of “Gran Turismo”—for nearly 20 years. System output is 600 kW (815 hp).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

In Neuberg, Germany, Audi presented the Group’s first all-electric race car: the Audi e-tron FE04 for the Formula E series. The combination of the motor and transmission is the centerpiece of the Audi e-tron FE04. The combination of the motor and transmission is the centerpiece of the Audi e-tron FE04.

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