- Hey guys, this is Austin
and this is the brand new Audi e-tron.
Now, Audi was awesome enough to sponsor
our trip out here to San Francisco for the launch event
and I've got to say I want one.
Like, I really, really want one.
The e-tron brand has been around for a couple of years now,
primarily on the A3 e-tron.
It's a cool car, but it is a plug-in hybrid
whereas this is fully electric.
Something I really appreciate about the e-tron is
that it actually doesn't look ugly.
Now, that might sound like a backhanded compliment,
but a lot of electric cars straight up
do look like science projects.
This looks like a classic Audi
with a little bit of an electric flair.
One of the easiest ways to spot
that this is an e-tron and not a standard Audi is
going to be with the grill.
Now, it looks similar, but the main difference here is
that it actually isn't a full grill.
So in fact, this is the only area
that will actually open up and that's purely based
on how you need to cool the battery
or stuff like the air conditioning.
When you're on the freeway, it can all close up,
and this is going to be fully aerodynamic.
Take a look inside the e-tron,
what you're going to find is something
that is very much classic Audi
but with a lot of nice tech touches.
So you get all kinds of information up on here.
For example, you can get a giant high-resolution Google map,
or you can get some more of the performance data,
some more of the economy stuff,
as, of course, you're driving an electric vehicle
and you want to be able to see
how efficiently you're driving.
There's a bunch of different things
that you can do with virtual cockpit.
But that, my friends, is just the beginning.
You also have two additional screens
here in the center console.
This is going to be the main display.
It works for things like your navigation
and it does have this nice little Haptic touch feature,
which is shared with not only this display,
but also the one in the backseat.
This is where you're going to do
primarily most of the stuff in the vehicle.
You can pull up like car play, your settings,
whatever you want to do,
and below that is where you can control
all of the different climate control stuff
and a couple of other settings.
So if I want, I can say, just turn up the fan,
can set the dual zone climate control.
Or you can do a couple of other things,
like, say, open your garage door
or turn off the screens altogether.
Unfortunately, we're not actually connected
to the Internet right now but if we were,
I could show you that Alexa is built into the e-tron.
Now, this is a new partnership with Amazon
and it's the full version of Alexa,
which is using LTE to be able to ask it,
well, pretty much anything you want.
So in theory, you can say on your way home,
hey, Alexa,
start my
garage door opener?
Something really cool that's sadly not coming
to the US is the virtual mirror.
Now, right now, it's going to be exclusive to Europe
mostly because of the regulations here,
but essentially it replaces
the standard mirrors with cameras.
Now, what this means is that not only is
it going to help with aerodynamics,
but this little section right here is going to be
replaced with an OLED display,
which will then show you what's going
to be going on behind you.
On top of that, it will even adjust the view
based on how quickly you're driving.
So, say you might see a little bit of a wider view
on the freeway or a little bit of a tighter view
when you're on a side street or whatever the case is.
But it's going to be fully adjustable
and it's a fricking camera and a screen
in your side mirror thing.
I want it.
The star of the show here is
definitely the electric powertrain.
Now, you actually can kind of see this from the outside.
So underneath the floor of the cabin is
going to be the full 95 watt hour cell.
There is a lot of engineering that goes
into that battery cell.
So on top of being about the largest capacity
that you can get on any electric vehicle right now,
there's going to be a lot of safety
and, importantly, a lot of cooling inside.
So the entire bottom of the battery is
all going to be liquid-pooled and on top of that,
this crash structure around it is hugely important
because, you know, if someone hits your car,
you don't want your batteries to be impacted.
So not only is there is going to be
an actual crash structure on the side of the cell,
but each individual battery cell,
there are going to be 36 of them that take up
the actual battery space,
they're all going to be individually protected
with a very strong steel frame.
There's not a final US range number available
for the e-tron yet since it won't be going on sale
until next year but based on the European cycle,
you should expect 200 plus miles on a charge.
And that combined with the ultra fast charging
should mean that, well, I don't care,
that's fine, that's plenty for me.
The e-tron will charge up to 150 kilowatts.
Now, as far as I know, that's about the quickest
electric vehicle car that you can find.
At a full 150 kilowatt hour charge,
what you can do, is you can get this thing
from 0% to 80% in 30 minutes.
The e-tron is powered by a pair of electric motors,
one on the rear axle, one on the front.
Now, in addition to giving you
the full Audi quattro experience of all wheel drive,
you're going to be getting some pretty decent power.
So the finalized figures aren't in just yet here in the US,
but you should expect somewhere
in the neighborhood of 350 to 400 horsepower.
And importantly, since it is an electric vehicle,
you're going to have a lot of torque
and it's going to be instant.
There's also a boost mode on board.
So if you want just a little bit of extra power,
or say you're trying to outrun Marquez or something,
not that I would ever do that in an e-tron,
then there's actually going to be a little bit
of extra power for a few seconds,
which you can engage either by putting the car in sport mode
or if you really floor the throttle,
there's actually a button on the backside of the pedal,
which will then give you just a little bit
of extra juice for a few seconds.
Even though it's an electric vehicle,
you're not giving up a lot of practicality.
So this has standard air suspension,
which you can see is currently lowering all the way down.
You have a couple inches of play,
whether you want to go off road
or you want to go into dynamic mode,
which is the fun mode.
You should drive it in fun mode.
And if you really want to go crazy with it,
this can actually tow up to 4,000 pounds
if you get the tow package,
which I just kind of want to try
because, you know, an electric car that's fast,
and roomy, and can tow?
I'm just really trying to sell my fiance on this
right now so just between us, just roll with it, okay?
What really impresses me with the e-tron is
that it feels like it is the full package.
Sure, you're getting an electric vehicle,
but it's also a luxurious Audi with all
the bells and whistles and, importantly,
all the functionality that you would expect.
I was kind of surprised to say this,
but I'm glad that Audi really sponsored our trip out here,
because I legitimately want an e-tron.
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