Bojan Vrbnjak
R8 e tron from 2015 with less than 100 units sold it won't necessarily go down in Audi history as a success. However, the company from Ingolstadt never really gave up on the idea of an electric super sports car. Years 2018 for example, they presented a model PB18 e-tron, his vision of a high-performance electric car, which we show in our photos.
Sorry to serial versions it never came, but now they are at Audi apparently ready to talk about again R8 without emissions. However, the market launch is likely to take place in a few years. In an interview for Coach is the head of technical development at the company s four rounds strongly hinted that it would one day be available the third generation of the R8 model. Oliver Hoffmann told the British magazine that Volkswagen's future platform is possible scalable systems adapt and transform for “iconic cars – sports cars and so on". He also said that he would Audi some systems or modules from development SSP used for high performance electric vehicles.
Hoffmann did not describe in detail exact time electrical model presentations R8 and/or TT, but hinted that work on it had already begun. Let's remind: according to the plan he wants Audi to introduce its last new model with an internal combustion engine in 2025. Everything since 2026 it will continue electrically. However, the company has a lot ahead of it in the meantime more important tasks from dreams of future sports cars. The most important priority is Q6 e tron, which will be launched in 2024. It is based on the platform Premium Platform Electric (PPE), which Audi developed together with Porsche. The Zuffenhausen-based company uses it for the following Tiger, which will also be exclusively electric.
Mentioned SSP but will combine hardware from platforms MEB and PPE and, according to estimates, will serve as a basis for the 80 percent electric of VW Group cars. According to Hoffmann, they will Audis the first electric cars SSP appeared already at the beginning of the platform's life cycle. Porsche is developing a version of this architecture called SSP Sport. It will serve as the basis for a new one the leading SUV above the Cayenne, which will debut in the second half of the decade. According to the words Oliver Blume, President of the Management Board Porsche and Volkswagen, this vehicle (codename: K1) will offer “a new vehicle concept"with"impressive performance"In"a new experience inside".
And while we're at it Porsche: June this year is theirs Mission X Concept showed the future electric hypercar with relatively large possibilities for serial production. For now, it is too early to judge whether it could be electric Audi R8 developed together with Mission X, but it would make sense because of the cost.
