Audi is set to bring its line of large, extravagant estate cars and trucks into the electric age with this: the A6 Avant e-tron. shown right here in concept form, the A6 Avant e-tron will bear a close resemblance to this show automobile when it lands in production from in 2024.
The A6 Avant e-tron concept is a much more useful iteration of last year’s A6 e-tron concept executive saloon, and is set to go on sale together with a combustion-engined variant.
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The automobile sits on the exact same premium platform electric (PPE) platform as the forthcoming Q6 e-tron SUV (and the A6 e-tron production car) which has been co-developed with Porsche. It utilises an 800V electronic design that allows fast charging at as much as 270kW, implying a 5 to 80 per cent charge takes less than 25 minutes, while plugging in for 10 minutes can offer an additional 186 miles of range.
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As per the A6 e-tron concept, the Avant exposed right here is powered by a battery that holds “around 100kWh of energy”, and this will be true of the production version too. The c. 100kWh system will stand as the largest battery provided on both the A6 e-tron and Avant e-tron, and despite a somewhat higher drag coefficient than the saloon Audi declares as much as 435 miles ought to be possible on a charge from the Avant e-tron concept. expect this figure to stay for the production model.
