Electric Audi R8 e-Tron will be produced Bashny.Net

In the history of the "long-suffering" electric sports car Audi R8 e-Tron final point is still not delivered, but it is slowly moving to the emergence of the model on the conveyor. Double eco-friendly modification of the basic Audi R8 coupe for the third year is listed in the status of the concept car, and looks like it'll have to wait in this incarnation at least another one. The thing is that the base R8 during this time has managed to live up to the change of generation, and therefore its electric sibling to debut a new generation. If nothing will interfere with the plans of management of Audi, it will happen in 2015.





Audi R8 has received from the media nickname of "suffering" because the former management of the group is not only strongly inhibited the process of its development, but a year ago decided to freeze the project. The reason was the battery of the sports car: with such power of the motor (about 400 HP) it was extremely heavy, bulky, but still not large enough – power reserve was only 215 km.

Recently, however, the head of the development Department of Audi Ulrich Hackenberg said in an interview to journalists of the edition Autocar that engineers of the concern as a result of the hard work still found a way to significantly lighten the battery and at the same time raise its energy level, as well as profitable to put it in the case compartment. Details of this process, Mr. Hackenberg said, but said that now test R8 e-Tron rides on a single charge up to 400 km If the decision will truly revolutionary, you will have to wait VAK dissertation in St. Petersburg on the subject of the analysis of the technology, developed by Audi's engineers. In this regard, is already preparing the decision on the withdrawal of the electric vehicle in serial production, but the production model will be small-scale: each compartment must advance to its future owner, and only then go on the conveyor.





Because the new generation of conventional gasoline R8 is being built on a new modular platform MLB, which debuted recently with the supercar Lamborghini Huracan, and the electric version of the coupe will also get the basis of this platform. In the future Audi R8 e-Tron will be used by the group as a training ground for the development of new technologies and systems vehicle control.

Source: zeleneet.com