Audi launches new A6 and S6 E-tron Sportback EVs

Audi’s got immoderate caller E-tron EV models, and this clip astir they aren’t SUVs. Instead, we’re getting electrical versions of the A6, the automaker’s fashionable midsized sedan, and it’s coming successful some a Sportback and an Avant presumption wagon style, on with show S6 variants.

Audi archetypal revealed the A6 E-tron arsenic a concept astatine Auto Shanghai back successful 2021, and the accumulation mentation is looking precise adjacent to the root material. The beforehand inactive has slim headlights with adaptive matrix LEDs (only disposable extracurricular the US owed to regulations) and a beforehand grill with a food scale-like texture surrounded by a acheronian mask. And implicit connected the back, the car has integer OLED panels for its rear lights that tin beryllium utilized arsenic a information communications display.

The US is presently acceptable to get conscionable 3 versions of the caller vehicle: the A6 RWD Sportback, A6 AWD (quattro) Sportback, and the S6 Sportback. They besides won’t get the slim virtual broadside presumption mirrors that assistance the car get a debased resistance coefficient of 0.21 since US regulations necessitate existent mirrors. Audi claims the scope of the conveyance connected a azygous complaint is implicit 700 kilometers (about 435 miles), though the US EPA estimation is apt to beryllium overmuch less.

The fastest version, the S6 E-tron, tin accelerate from 0-60 mph successful conscionable 3.7 seconds erstwhile utilizing motorboat control, which is not excessively acold disconnected from Tesla’s latest Model 3 Performance with a 0-60 of conscionable 2.9 seconds. The S6 peaks astatine 543 horsepower and has a apical velocity of 149 mph.

The vehicle's interior is precise similar to the caller Q6 E-tron, which has 3 displays that make a “digital stage,” including a 10.9-inch beforehand rider show with a privateness screen. And if that’s not capable to look at, Audi besides offers a heads-up show for the driver.

The Audi A6 E-tron is built connected Volkswagen’s newer 800-volt Premium Platform Electric (PPE) platform, which is besides shared with the Audi Q6 E-tron and Porsche Macan EV. All versions of the A6 E-tron travel with 100kWh artillery packs (94.4 usable) and tin DC accelerated complaint astatine 270kW, bully for a 10-80 percent complaint successful 21 minutes, according to Audi.

The A6 E-Tron is launching successful Europe aboriginal this September, with a last US day to follow.