Audi has confirmed plans to supply new electrical automobiles based mostly on the Volkswagen Group’s new Premium Platform Electrical (PPE) in China from 2024.
The yet-to-be-named Audi fashions will probably be produced in partnership with Chinese language producer First Vehicle Works (FAW) within the north-eastern metropolis of Changchun.
Overseeing the Sino-German operation is a newly shaped firm, Audi-FAW. Majority-owned by Audi and its dad or mum firm’s Chinese language subsidiary, will probably be accountable for the manufacturing of a variety of various EVs.
These will probably embody an upcoming electrical model of the third-generation Q5 in long-wheelbase guise for the Chinese language market – the Q5L e-tron, as Audi insiders describe it to Autocar.
The zero-emissions SUV has been conceived across the PPE platform – a brand new, devoted electrical car structure collectively developed by Audi and sister firm Porsche.
Completely different to the J1 platform that underpins the Porsche Taycan and its soon-to-be-revealed sister mannequin, the Audi E-tron GT, the PPE platform is claimed to supply larger modularity with differing wheelbases, tracks and floor clearance.
The primary manufacturing mannequin rumoured to be based mostly on the brand new construction is an electrical model of the Porsche Macan, due out in 2022. Its growth is claimed to be twinned with that of the Q5 e-tron.
“With the brand new Audi-FAW firm in Changchun, we’re additional increasing our presence on the Chinese language market and strengthening our place as a producer of absolutely electrical premium autos by means of native manufacturing,” mentioned Markus Duesmann, Audi chairman and the particular person accountable for the corporate’s enterprise actions in China.
Audi already produces the long-wheelbase A4L, A6L and Q5L, plus the E-tron quattro EV, along with FAW in Changchun.
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