Our Audi representative informed us that the e-tron performs very similar to its sporty TDI.
The A3 e-tron has similar level of sportiness to a Mini Cooper -- minus the feeling of being in a go-kart.
Audi has shown a series of e-tron-branded electric cars, one of which, the Tesla Roadster-like R8, is going into limited production next year.
The Audi e-tron, for instance, is an experimental sports coupe that relies on a battery alone to drive four electric motors one for each wheel.
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The A3 e-tron sports two Sanyo liquid-and-air-cooled battery packs, one under the trunk area and the other in a T-shape under the passenger compartment.
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The best example of this was when we turned the A3 e-tron onto NYC's West Side Highway to head uptown while getting a feel for its performance on an open road.
Starting from the slow, but bustling, streets of SoHo downtown (A6 trailing us for support) with just under half a charge left, we could already feel how agile the A3 e-tron is.
The digital rear-view mirror celebrated its dazzling premiere at the Le Mans 24 Hours in the R18 e-tron quattro and R18 ultra race cars which gave Audi a one-two-three win in the legendary race.
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You don't get the usual rumbling of an idling engine, just the whisper-quiet whirl of the e-tron's motor (Audi is currently engineering an "e-tron sound" so that outsiders will be able to hear the car) and wind whizzing by.
Ingolstadt, 2012-08-09 -- Audi is set to make driving even safer with a new technology: the digital rear-view mirror delivers brilliant images and is due to enter small-scale production in the Audi R8 e-tron at the end of this year.
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Stadler drove out onto the stage at the Las Vegas Hilton in an Audi e-tron Spyder concept car, a hybrid vehicle with two electric motors and a twin-turbo V6 engine, capable of zooming from 0 to 60 in just 4.7 seconds.
Yesterday, AUDI AG chairman Rupert Stadler gave his own keynote address at CES, driving out onto the stage at the Las Vegas Hilton in an Audi e-tron Spyder concept car, a hybrid vehicle with two electric motors and a twin-turbo V6 engine, capable of zooming from 0 to 60 in just 4.7 seconds.
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