Audi is planning to carry the Q6 Sportback e-tron EV to the Paris Motor Present. The German automaker has confirmed that Paris would be the first look of its extra fashionable electrical crossover by a teaser slipped into an announcement heralding the usual Q6 e-tron’s leads to European security exams.
Sportback Trades Model For Cargo House
Sportback is the time period Audi makes use of to explain the extra fashionable variations of its SUVs. BMW and Mercedes-Benz each use Coupe and SUV to distinguish the 2 in their very own strains, however since neither one is something like a coupe, Audi’s naming makes extra sense.
No matter you name it, the variations are small. Many of the adjustments occur behind the entrance seats, the place the Sportback has that modern roofline that arguably provides to the stylishness of the design. The SUV will get extra cargo area as a substitute as its sq. roof continues rearward. Within the case of the similarly-sized Q5 fashions, the SUV has 26 cubic ft of cargo area versus 25 within the Sportback.
One different profit, and it is a crucial one for electrical e-tron fashions, is effectivity. Audi’s Sportbacks reduce by the air extra cleanly than the usual fashions, usually helped additional by an absence of roof racks, so the Q6 Sportback e-tron will most likely supply a bit extra vary than the usual Q6’s 307-mile max.
Audi confirmed that the Q6 Sportback e-tron would launch in Paris for the primary time on October 14th, relying in your time zone. Audi calls it one minute after midnight central European time, which is 6pm on the thirteenth should you’re on the U.S. Atlantic coast.
S fashions of the 2 Q6 e-tron electrical variants will even observe, and all ought to go on sale in 2025.
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The Q6 e-tron is estimated to have 307 miles of vary. However will the Audi dwell as much as expectations when the EPA evaluates it?
Faster S, Off-Highway Q6 Fashions Additionally Anticipated
The crossover-coupe Q6 will seemingly use the identical electrical powertrain because the extra upright Q6 e-tron as each are based mostly on the PPE platform shared with Porsche. The Q6 e-tron gives 83 kWh and 100 kWh battery packs together with 456 horsepower in customary kind and as much as 509 horsepower in SQ6 kind.
Audi can be planning what appears like a extra rugged Dakar-style model of the Q6 Sportback. We noticed the lifted and big-tired off-road variant that joins a section together with the Porsche 911 Dakar and Lamborghini Huracan Sterrato in testing earlier this yr however have restricted details about the mannequin. This off-road Q6 Sportback might additionally make its debut in Paris, although Audi may be holding it for a later present just like the L.A. Auto Present in November.
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Audi grew to become the primary to win the Dakar Rally with electrical propulsion earlier this yr. This Q6 appears like a celebratory particular version.