Manual Audi has decided to stop working on a project to create a model A2, which was supposed to start production in 2015. 

Recall that in September 2011 at the Frankfurt Motor Show Audi unveiled the A2 concept. It was a small machine that had an electric motor and a lithium-ion battery capacity of 31 kW • hAccording to the German engineers, the engine can produce 85 kW and 270 Nm, allowing 0-100 km / h A2 accelerates in 9.3 s and the maximum speed of the car is 150 km / h And on the same "filling" battery car could go up to 200 km. 

Figures, at first glance, a very decent for current electric vehicles. However, Audi is still afraid to run a car in the series - the calculations show that it would be too expensive, and operate at a loss in the Audi now do not want. 

It would seem that you can easily produce the A2 with the usual engine. However, not everything is so smooth. Research on German marketers, small cars market premium is not so great as we would like. Besides the appearance of A2 would lead to what would fall sales model A1.

Manual Audi has decided to postpone indefinitely series production model R8 e-tron. According to the magazine AutoExpress, at the moment the Germans built only ten R8 e-tron, all of which are intended for internal use: display at car shows and at dealerships, test drive, test new equipment and machinery. "We believe that the range of users with modern electric vehicles and batteries are too narrow, and the market is not willing to accept such products", - said representatives of Audi.  But as soon as technology improved, the Germans will be ready to immediately launch electric cars in the series. It needs to solve the main problem - the small range of the modern types of ...

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Manual Audi can abandon the idea of creating an electric A2 - the concept of such a model was shown in 2011 at the Frankfurt Motor Show . And then, as I recall, Audi engineers exuded optimism. They say the car they just turned out great, and its mass production will begin in 2013.But after a few months became less optimistic - all well aware that the appearance of this electric vehicle is now nothing but a loss will bring. Indeed, in Europe there is still no infrastructure for the "pure" electric vehicles, and its price is too high. According to British magazine Car Magazine, Audi bosses were skeptical about the immediate prospects of electric. Fashion - fashion, ...