Audi News

  • Audi A2 Concept, Frankfurt Motor Show, September 2011

    Audi has demonstrated a vote of little confidence in electric cars by revealing it has canceled plans to produce the all-electric Audi A2, and the range-extended A1 e-tron. CAR cites Audi's concerns that the projected 40,000 Euro price tag--just under $50,000--would make the project unviable for the low sales volumes it would likely attract. The A2 concept was first revealed at last year's Frankfurt Auto Show, where it spearheaded a range of Audi electric vehicles including the A1 e-tron, the closed and open-roof Urban Concepts and the R8 e-tron. Partly inspired by the 1999 Audi A2, a...

  • Audi's electric bike ridden by Julien Dupont. Image captured from Youtube video
    Audi Urban Electric Bike Teased Before Official Launch

    Smart's eBike electric bicycle has been attracting a lot of attention recently, but it's not the only electric bike to emerge from Germany. Audi has teased its own electric bike in a short video, featuring French freestyle trials rider Julien Dupont. Where Smart's bike is very much a commuting...

  • 2012 Audi Q5 Hybrid
    Audi Gives More Details On 2013 Q5 Hybrid Quattro SUV

    Ever since Audi unveiled the A5 Hybrid Quattro SUV at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show, we have to admit to being a little excited about seeing it reach the U.S. market. Now, Audi has given us a little more insight into the model, due to hit the U.S. some time this year as a 2013 year model...

  • 2012 Audi Q5 Hybrid
    2013 Audi Q5 Hybrid Coming To The U.S. Soon: Report

    Audi will reportedly export its 2013 Q5 Hybrid to the United States in the not-too-distant future.

  • New Audi A3 Hatchback live photos, 2012 Geneva Motor Show
    Next Audi A3 To Offer Diesel, Hybrid, CNG Options Globally

    Audi's next A3 will offer buyers a wider range of drivetrain options, at least in Europe.

  • Audi R18 TDI Le Mans car
    Audi To Rival Toyota In Fielding Hybrid Racer At Le Mans

    Many automakers claim that their exploits in the world of motorsport go towards improving their road cars. It's a tenuous connection sometimes, but Audi could lay fair claim to motorsport -derived technology in its road cars, from its Le Mans program. With maiden wins for its TFSI technology in...

  • 2011 Audi A8 L

    For some time, German luxury automaker Audi has been one of the few automakers to offer clean diesel cars to the U.S. market. But until Audi announced plans back in March last year to offer diesel-engined options for every new Audi sold in the U.S. by 2015, the only diesel Audis you could buy were the Audi Q7 TDI SUV, or the compact, VW Golf-based Audi A3 Hatchback. Not for much longer. At this week’s 2012 Detroit Auto Show, Audi bosses confirmed that the 2013 Audi A8 family would get its own clean-diesel option in the form of its 3.0-liter V-6 TDI turbodiesel engine. Most likely the...

  • 2011 Audi Q7 TDI test drive, Catskill Mountains, Nov 2011
    2011 Audi Q7 TDI Clean-Diesel SUV: Quick Drive

    We tend to prefer smaller cars here at Green Car Reports. Since far more than half of U.S. car journeys are made by a single occupant, smaller could often suffice--and cost less, and pollute less. But some buyers simply need larger vehicles--or at least want them--and seven-seat sport-utility...

  • Audi Urban Concept launch, 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show
    Audi To Sell Electric Urban Concept, Join The Not-Quite-Car Parade?

    If one is a fluke and two is coincidence, then three makes a trend for sure. Audi is close to approving plans to build a limited number of the all-electric two-seat Urban Concept vehicle that it launched at the recent Frankfurt Motor Show, according to CAR magazine in England, If built for sale...

  • 20 Audi A1 e-tron electric cars will be used in the pilot program
    Audi Launches Pilot Project In Munich With A1 E-tron Electric Car

    Earlier today, Audi launched the latest part of its plug-in electric vehicle program, commencing a public trail of its A1 e-tron range-extended electric car in Munich. Announced in September 2010 after Audi unveiled the A1 E-Tron concept car at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show, the 20-strong test car...

  • 2010 Audi e-tron Spyder Concept
    Audi e-Tron Spyder Frolics In Malibu: Video

    Until Audi unveiled its concept e-Tron Spyder plug-in hybrid car at the 2010 Paris Auto show, the words diesel and sexy didn’t go well together. Now the company has proven otherwise with the release of a short video showing the Audi e-Tron Spyder concept driving around sunny Malibu...

  • poster from Audi Urban Future conference, Frankfurt, September 2011
    Audi Urban Future Initiative: Smaller, Smarter, Autonomous, Linked Cars

    Put a group of urban planners, architects, and sociologists on a panel to discuss transportation in the cities of the future, and you may find they don’t spend much time talking about cars. Instead, you get statements like, “The megacity of the future desires to be a generous knowledge...

  • Audi Urban Concept launch, 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show

    The 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show officially opens to the press tomorrow, but already the private parties and launch events have started. Sunday night, Audi officially unveiled its pair of two-seat electric concept cars, known jointly as the Urban Concept vehicles. One is a coupe, with a hatch over the cockpit that slides the roof and "doors" back over the rear of the car to allow two people to enter. The other is an open car with no top at all. In both cases, the Urban Concept vehicles are electrically powered minimalist transportation; the weight is just 480 kilograms (1,060 pounds). Each car...

  • 2011 Volkswagen Nils single-seat electric car concept
    2011 Frankfurt Auto Show: Full Electric Car Preview

    We thought the 2011 Geneva Motor Show was one of the best ever for electric cars and green vehicles, but the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show, starting in less than a week, is shaping up to be even better. We'll be covering the show in-depth next week, but in the meantime we've rounded up all the electric...

  • 2011 Audi A2 Concept
    Audi A2 Concept Electric Car Due At 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show

    With the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show less than two weeks away the German auto industry is starting to really crank out the concept cars. Latest in the onslaught of new German metal is the Audi A2 concept. If you think the name sounds familiar then you aren't wrong. Audi launched a production A2...

  • Audi Urban Concept renderings
    Audi Reveals More Urban Concept Pics Ahead Of Frankfurt Show

    It seems that Audi just can't contain itself with its latest concept cars, the two-seater Urban Concepts. Three weeks ago some spy videos trickled onto the internet showing the camoflaged electric car being driven around in the center of Berlin. The very next day Audi revealed its first sketches of...

  • 2012 Audi A8 Hybrid
    Audi A8 Hybrid: For Europe In 2012, For U.S. Sometime Later, Maybe

    Historically, German automakers were slow to move into hybrid-electric vehicles, relying exclusively on diesel engines to boost fuel efficiency. That's in the past, though, and the Volkswagen Group is aggressively spreading its hybrid powertrain across models from many of its brands. But while VW...

  • 2011 Audi Urban Spyder Concept
    Audi Urban Spyder Concept: 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show Preview

    The 2011 Audi Urban Spyder Concept features carbon fiber construction and is a preview of what's to come from Audi.

  • Screenshot from Audi Urban Concept promotional video, prior to 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show

    If you're going to shoot a teaser video of a radical new concept car, maybe it's not such a good idea to do it in a gigantic plaza in the middle of a large European city. Audi has now released the official teaser video (view it at the bottom of this story) for the e-tron Urban Concept vehicle it will officially unveil next month at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show. The video follows a press release it issued yesterday with details on the little electric two-seater. But the video shoot attracted so much attention from passers-by in the German capital that numerous images of the car hit the...

  • 2011 Audi Urban Concept
    2011 Frankfurt Auto Show: Audi Gives More Details on Electric Urban Concept

    Yesterday we brought you news of a highly camouflaged all-electric minicar spotted in the center of Berlin and wearing the unmistakable linked ring Audi badge. At the time, we postulated that the tiny electric runabout was probably Audi’s e-tron city concept car. Now Audi has confirmed that...

  • New 1.8 TFSI turbocharged four-cylinder for the Audi A5
    Audi's Latest Engine Blends Performance With Fuel Economy

    Audi's new 1.8-liter TFSI engine produces 170 horsepower and 236 ft-lb. of torque while returning fuel economy over 41 mpg.

  • 2012 Audi A6 live photos. Photo by Joe Nuxoll.
    2012 Audi A6 To Offer High-MPG Hybrid, Clean-Diesel Models

    Despite lack of an official confirmation from Audi of America, we'd bet significant money on the arrival of the Audi A6 Hybrid in the U.S. market. Why? Because the U.S. has the highest hybrid penetration of any market in the world except Japan, and "hybrid" means "high gas mileage" to a large...

  • Four Motors Volkswagen Scirocco 2.0 TDI
    Endurance Racing Sans Gasoline: Biodiesel Runs At Nurburgring

    The VLN is a race series held in Germany each year where the cars speed around the grueling Nurburgring-Nordschleife, a track often nicknamed the ‘Green Hell’ because it’s surrounded by pristine green hills but is also one of the toughest and most intensive of its kind anywhere in...

  • 2010 Audi e-tron Spyder Concept live photos
    Audi e-tron Spyder Diesel Plug-In Hybrid Turns Up At Le Mans

    In recent years at the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race there is an event called the Le Mans vers le Futur that takes place before the actual race in which a number of vehicles showcasing future automotive technology takes to the famous Circuit de la Sarthe for a couple of demonstration laps...

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