The RS-models from Audi will be electrified

Posted on 24-10-2014 at 16:28 by ricardo – 42 Comments”

Also the performance divisions of the German automotive manufacturers have to the CO2-emissionen down, there is no escape. A dose of power can easily help, according to Audi.

The European Union has, despite fierce lobbying from the German car industry, given that cars, by 2021, on average, not more than 95 grams of CO2 are allowed to emit. Something that has direct consequences for Quattro GmbH, because in the pretafdeling of Audi, the consumption objects. Of course they have the time, but behind the scenes, one thinks, of course, already after about hóé they are going to do. Quattro boss Heinz Hollerweger has a brief overview of what the veil is lifted.

In conversation with the Australian Motoring says Hollerweger that they are not to electrification, to go and thus have to use in the RS-line.

“We could not exclude electrification, we would not exclude electrification. It is a technology that gives also some additional performance.”

He was not in on the implementation of electro-support. It can range from electric motors, capacitors to the electrically-driven turbo. But he left the word ‘five cylinder’. Because the return of the iconic five cylinder in a hybrid powertrain is possible, according to the ceo. Or as he himself says:

“There’s no technical reasons why there couldn’t be a five-cylinder hybrid”

Something tells us that BMW and Mercedes the statements of Hollerweger interested to hear, because even the M-division and AMG will this emissions-obstacle to have to tackle.

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