Audi e-tron 2019 revealed and confirmed for Australia The e-tron...

Audi e-tron 2019 revealed and confirmed for Australia

The e-tron is all-wheel drive, of course, but there’s no propshaft running the length of the car – which also creates a flat floor inside. Audi says the battery pack is warranted for eight years/160,000km, and it’s designed to be easily serviced and even replaced if required.

The e-tron will be built in a completely redone Audi plant in Brussels, Belgium, at the rate of 200 a day. Audi says it can easily wind the wick up should the e-tron take off.

Look, let’s be frank… Audi owes us all a lot of mea culpas, thanks to its neck-deep involvement in the Dieselgate mess. Its last CEO is still in jail for his part in the scandal, and it would be easy to dismiss the e-tron as a concerted greenwashing campaign.

What we’ve seen here, though, looks to be a serious play by a car company at making electric vehicle technology at scale, and doing it properly first time. A fleet of EVs is inbound, and if the e-tron is any indication, Audi – and the VW Group – is serious about EVs.

2019, what can it be?

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