Audi introduced it’ll fill the hole between the upcoming This autumn E-Tron and the E-Tron already in showrooms with a mannequin known as Q6 E-Tron. Due out in 2022, the crossover will share its underpinnings with the subsequent Porsche Macan.
Firm boss Markus Duesmann confirmed that the Q6 E-Tron is somewhat over a 12 months from making its world debut through the annual common assembly that Audi held this month in its residence city of Ingolstadt, Germany. He stopped in need of telling attendees what the mannequin will appear to be, although the Macan connection provides us an honest concept of what to anticipate by way of dimensions. Audi will place the Q6 E-Tron as electrical different to the Q5.
Do not let the widespread bones (and a number of the inaccurate studies floating across the internet) idiot you: the Q6 E-Tron won’t be merely a re-badged Macan. It can journey on the Premium Platform Electrical (PPE) structure that Audi and Porsche co-developed to underpin a variety of comparatively huge luxurious EVs. Just like the Taycan and the Taycan Cross Turismo, each crossovers will characteristic 800-volt expertise that guarantees to considerably scale back charging instances.
We’ll study extra in regards to the Q6 E-Tron through the second half of 2021, and Audi will unveil the mannequin in 2022. When it lands, it’ll be a part of the This autumn E-Tron (pictured), the E-Tron GT, and each variants of the E-Tron within the agency’s EV portfolio.
Porsche will introduce the second-generation Macan in 2022, that means it’d land in American showrooms for the 2023 mannequin 12 months. Earlier spy photographs counsel the crossover will put on an much more rakish roof line than the present mannequin, and a entrance finish loosely impressed by the Taycan. Motorists not interested by going electrical will not be out of luck — a minimum of not but. Porsche burdened that it’ll promote each variations of the Macan concurrently in some markets.
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