Audi on Tuesday confirmed plans for two new electric SUVs.
The vehicles will be built at Audi’s main plant in Ingolstadt, Germany from
2021.
Audi made the confirmation during a meeting with employee representatives
to discuss job security through 2025. Crucially, it helps to alleviate fears
employees may have had about job cuts in an age of ongoing digitalization and
electrification.
“We have long been fighting for a job guarantee up until the
end of 2025,” Peter Mosch, who represents Audi’s employees, said in a
statement. “That is why specifically the decision on the two new all-electric
SUVs is another milestone on our road to a secure future.”
Audi’s first volume electric car, the e-tron SUV, bows in 2018,
and shortly after its arrival will be a more coupe-like version dubbed
the e-tron
Sportback. Both of these will be built at a
plant in Brussels, Belgium.
But Audi is planning many more electric cars in order to
reach a 2025 goal of having one out of every four sales being a zero-emission
model. The automaker will introduce a third electric car, likely a city car, by
2020.
Audi didn’t provide any further details on the two SUVs due
in 2021. It’s likely they will be smaller than the mid-size e-tron and e-tron
Sportback in order to provide Audi with alternatives for the upcoming
Mercedes-Benz EQC and Tesla Model Y small SUVs. One will likely be a
conventionally shaped SUV and the other a more coupe-like Sportback.
Audi is also working on an electric car for its
Audi Sport brand. The performance division’s boss, Stephan Winkelmann, in September
said an Audi Sport electric car would hit the market in 2020 or 2021
source: https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1032616_audi-confirms-2-more-electric-suvs
by Vinesh Vijayenthiran
http://www.boscheuropean.com
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