Each Audi electrical SUV has acquired the very best Prime Security Decide+ award from the Insurance coverage Institute for Freeway Security (IIHS).
The protection award applies to all present mannequin 12 months Audi electrical SUVs, together with the 2023 Audi This autumn E-Tron and This autumn Sportback E-Tron, in addition to the 2024 Audi Q8 E-Tron and Q8 E-Tron Sportback. The Q8 E-Tron fashions are updates of the E-Tron SUV and Sportback, which additionally obtained Prime Security Decide+ scores as 2023 fashions.
2024 Audi Q8 E-Tron
To earn a Prime Security Decide+ award, automobiles should obtain the very best “Good” score within the IIHS’ up to date side-impact crash take a look at, and have automated emergency braking methods that earn “Superior” or “Superior” scores in each daytime and nighttime pedestrian assessments. That is along with excessive marks in all different crash assessments, in addition to above-average headlight scores which are wanted to earn the mid-grade Prime Security Decide award.
Launching as 2024 fashions, the Q8 household carries over all the great issues —together with the security score—from the earlier E-Tron SUV and Sportback household, however with extra driving vary (Audi estimates 300 miles, though EPA scores have not been posted) and considerably sharpened dealing with. The E-Tron SUV was the primary EV to earn the Prime Security Decide+ award, in 2019.
2023 Audi This autumn E-Tron
The This autumn household goes for practicality greater than punch, and value lower than different premium EVs of comparable dimension. Sharing VW’s MEB platform, the This autumn fashions are carefully associated to the Volkswagen ID.4, which has the identical prime security score.
There’s one different Audi EV, which possible will not be rated by the IIHS. That is the E-Tron GT, the one non-SUV in Audi’s present EV lineup, which is probably going too low-volume to warrant the total battery of assessments from the non-profit security group.
