Audi cancels all-electric A2, A1 e-tron due to high price
Enviado: 05 jun 2012, 23:03
Aqui está uma notícia que pode valorizar o nosso LEAF (pois mostra que a Nissan fez um bom trabalho antes de lançar o LEAF)
http://green.autoblog.com/2012/06/04/au ... ce-tag-fe/
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Dr. Evil couldn't get sharks with laser beams (for a while, anyway) and we won't get an Audi electric car with them, either.
That's the news from Car Magazine, anyway, which reports today that the automaker is cancelling the all-electric A2 project because it would likely be too expensive at 40,000 euros (just under $50,000 U.S. at today's exchange rates). To be fair, Audi never promised us this car. When the car debuted at the Frankfurt Motor Show last September, complete with a rear fog light laser, Audi admitted it was just a "concept technology study." Looks like study time is now over.
Car says that another EV project in the company stable, the A1 e-tron plug-in hybrid with a Wankel motor, has also been shut down. If these reports are true, BMW could lock down the small, luxury EV segment all to itself in a few years – if the i3 makes it to production.
News Source: Car Magazine via Green Car Reports
Image Credit: Copyright 2011 Drew Phillips / AOL
http://green.autoblog.com/2012/06/04/au ... ce-tag-fe/
[IMG]http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com ... nkfurt.jpg[/IMG]
Dr. Evil couldn't get sharks with laser beams (for a while, anyway) and we won't get an Audi electric car with them, either.
That's the news from Car Magazine, anyway, which reports today that the automaker is cancelling the all-electric A2 project because it would likely be too expensive at 40,000 euros (just under $50,000 U.S. at today's exchange rates). To be fair, Audi never promised us this car. When the car debuted at the Frankfurt Motor Show last September, complete with a rear fog light laser, Audi admitted it was just a "concept technology study." Looks like study time is now over.
Car says that another EV project in the company stable, the A1 e-tron plug-in hybrid with a Wankel motor, has also been shut down. If these reports are true, BMW could lock down the small, luxury EV segment all to itself in a few years – if the i3 makes it to production.
News Source: Car Magazine via Green Car Reports
Image Credit: Copyright 2011 Drew Phillips / AOL