2024 Audi RS Q6 e-tron spied

Audi has been snapped testing a sooner model of its Q6 e-tron SUV on the Nurburgring.

Doubtlessly an S or RS mannequin, the Q6 e-tron pictured right here has a sportier entrance bumper than the common automobile we’ve additionally seen testing lately. It additionally has greater wheels, and crimson brake calipers hiding behind them.

The split-level headlights are in retaining what we’ve seen from earlier prototypes, and from what we’re anticipating from the following Audi A6, whereas the slim tail lights share their LED signatures with the newest A3.

It could make sense for Audi to be growing a correct efficiency model of the Q6, given it’ll share its underpinnings (dubbed PPE) with the overtly performance-oriented Porsche Macan EV.

Vehicles based mostly on PPE are anticipated to supply options like all-wheel steering, an 800V electrical system with quick charging as much as 350kW, and torque vectoring.

The Q6 e-tron is predicted to supply a spread of single-motor rear-wheel drive and dual-motor all-wheel drive powertrains, with vary of as much as 480km.

A dual-motor RS Q6 e-tron may pump out as a lot as 440kW of energy. The RS e-tron GT, for reference, produces 440kW of energy (475kW in enhance mode) and 830Nm of torque, good for a 0-100km/h time of three.3 seconds.

The Q6 e-tron will slot right into a sprawling line-up of Audi SUVs, which is able to proceed to incorporate combustion-powered fashions till 2033 – and probably past in China.

Earlier spy images have additionally given us a glimpse of the Q6 e-tron’s display screen set-up, consisting of a giant, free-standing digital instrument cluster and a tablet-style central touchscreen.

It could possibly be 2024 by the point we see the Q6 e-tron, which was initially meant to launch throughout 2023.

Experiences from Europe quoting sources inside Audi and Porsche counsel challenges on the Volkswagen Group’s software program subsidiary, Cariad, are responsible.