Q6 E-Tron gets Sportback brother
In the form of the Q6 e-tron, Audi is introducing a new electric SUV. The Q6 e-tron is not alone. In the form of the Q6 e-tron Sportback, it also gets a sportier lined alternative.
Porsche and Audi have recently been busy developing a completely new platform intended for higher-ranking electric cars. This new modular basis is called Premium Platform Electric (PPE) and Porsche will soon be using it for, among other things, the fully electrically powered new Macan. Audi will apply the PPE platform – which you can see in short as the ‘premium’ equivalent of the MEB base – among the production versions of the A6 e-tron Concept and A6 e-tron Avant Concept. However, the PPE technology debuts at the brand under the Q6 e-tron, a brand new electric SUV that, based on these spy photos, will also receive a Sportback variant.
Spy photo Audi Q6 e-tron
As a car manufacturer, you do good business with SUVs and brands also try to attract buyers en masse into the showroom with SUV derivatives with a more steeply sloping roofline. The Audi Q5 has such a Sportback derivative and there are also Sportback versions of the E-tron and Q4 e-tron. It is therefore not entirely surprising that Audi also appears in the Q6 e-tron as a Sportback. That Q6 e-tron Sportback will indeed have a rather sloping roofline, less headroom in the back, but a sportier image from a marketing point of view.
Audi Q6
Just like the regular Q6 e-tron and the upcoming A6 and e-tron, the Q6 e-tron will also have a front with lighting divided over two floors. The LED daytime running lights are placed at the top, the actual headlights nestle a floor below. The Audi Q6s will not count as a successor to the current simply E-tron and E-tron Sportback SUVs. They are about to be technically upgraded and may go through life after their facelift as Q8 e-tron and Q8 e-tron Sportback. The Q6’s and E-tron nestle between the Q4’s and ‘Q8 e-tron’. The Q6 duo is also not a successor to the Q5 that is available with combustion engines, because it is simply a new generation.
Both the new Q6 e-tron and the Q6 e-tron Sportack will soon see the light of day in Ingolstadt, Germany, although the question is whether that will happen this year. The PPE platform that will house them has an on-board voltage of 800V and can therefore handle charging capacities of up to 350 kW. Audi will probably show the Q6 e-tron at the end of this year, the Sportback derivative may appear later.
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