AUDI has revamped its flagship e-Tron GT ‘bahn stormer lineup, including a hardcore RS Efficiency variant, with revised styling, extra vary and an enormous energy bump.
The vary, which launched in 2021, however didn’t make its approach to Australia till late 2022, will include three fashions; S e-tron GT, RS e-tron GT and all-out RS e-tron GT Efficiency.
Now probably the most highly effective automotive Audi has ever produced, the top-spec RS e-tron GT Efficiency presents outputs and acceleration simply shy of its psychological Taycan Turbo S twin-under-the-skin.
To place issues into perspective, the RS e-tron GT Efficiency produces 680kW and can rocket to 100km/h in 2.5 seconds, in opposition to the Porsche Taycan Turbo S’ 700kW 2.4 second dash time.
The outgoing RS e-Tron GT produces 200kW much less energy and is sort of a full second slower to 100km/h, so we doubt the 0.1 second deficit is one thing Ingolstadt loyals will care an excessive amount of about – or discover on public roads.
Energy is up throughout the complete vary, with the bottom S e-tron GT producing 500kW and the RS e-tron GT as much as 630 kW – now able to reaching triple figures in 3.3 seconds and a couple of.8 seconds respectively.
Driving vary can be improved, with as much as 609 kilometres quoted by Audi, presumably for the bottom mannequin S e-tron GT with its 18-19.7kWh/100km claimed vitality use. The highest-spec RS e-tron GT Efficiency has claimed use of 18.7-20.8kWh/100km, which is simply marginally larger than the S mannequin, suggesting sturdy drive vary throughout fashions.
Different enhancements embrace a brand new air suspension setup, with the choice of an energetic system, which Audi says presents “an unprecedented unfold between consolation and driving dynamics.”
The 2-chamber, two-valve air suspension system negates pitch and roll by counteracting dynamic adjustments, with the selection of effectivity, consolation and dynamic modes. The RS e-tron GT Efficiency will get a further track-focused efficiency mode.
Audi says that off the again of buyer requests it has additionally paired its all-wheel steering system with a extra direct front-axle steering ratio, in contrast with the outgoing mannequin, lowering steering effort at low speeds.
A lighter, extra vitality dense 105kWh battery and improved electrical system additional improve the effectivity of the e-tron GT vary, permitting vitality recuperation – by way of the regenerative braking – of 400kW, up from 290kW.
The e-tron GT can now be charged or discharged with currents of as much as 400 amps, with larger present circulate accessible inside particular person cells, and most charging energy is up 50kW to an enormous 320kW.
In the true world, this implies the e-tron GT could be charged from 10 to 80 per cent in 18 minutes at a charger able to feeding it with the complete 320kW whack of ‘juice’, and Audi says homeowners will be capable to add 280 kilometres of vary in simply 10 minutes.
Visible adjustments are discreet, providing a progressive replace to the e-tron aesthetics by means of colour-matched ascents, extra muscular air curtains and aerodynamic aids, and reworked wheel selections.
The highest-of-the-line 21-inch cast and milled wheels pay homage to the ‘AVUS’ wheels discovered on the Audi Avus Quattro research again in 1991 however are a contemporary tackle the enduring fashion.
Inside upgrades embrace a flat-bottom steering wheel, whereas RS variants get a 12 o’clock marking, and the seats have been improved with sport choice customary in base S e-tron GT fashions.
The digital cluster (or digital cockpit in Audi communicate) is improved, too, now displaying battery temperature and most doable charging energy in actual time.
In step with the Nineteen Nineties’s heritage homage, Audi has additionally included a white energy show and speedometer within the RS e-tron GT Efficiency mannequin that tribute the color scheme used for the 1994 RS2 Avant cluster.
Audi Australia instructed GoAuto it’s nonetheless investigating timing and pricing for the e-tron GT vary domestically and can replace us with info because it comes at hand.
