Minor modifications to the Audi e-tron GT are coming, and they need to be accompanied by extra substantial tweaks underneath the pores and skin.
In a single day the German luxurious model printed images of a prototype of the upcoming e-tron GT facelift.
Though the prototype automobile has no camouflage per se, it’s lined with a race car-style wrap, which serves to obscure a few of the modifications.
Up entrance the e-tron GT prototype wears a brand new entrance bumper with a bigger pair of aspect air intakes. The present automobile’s panda eye impact, the place a swathe of shiny black plastic hyperlinks the headlights, air intakes and the grille, has been deleted.
The automobile’s single-frame grille has been up to date with a brand new insert that incorporates a modified texture sample, and a flattened higher part.
On the rear, there’s a brand new diffuser insert, however the remainder of the bumper meeting and the tail-light setup seems to be identical as earlier than.
Constructed atop the identical structure because the Porsche Taycan, we anticipate the revised Audi e-tron GT to sport lots of the upgrades its sibling acquired throughout its latest facelift.
The Taycan’s DC quick charging now tops out at 320kW, up 50kW from the pre-facelift mannequin. Web battery pack capacities have been elevated from 71kWh and 81.3kWh to 82.3kWh and 97kWh, which ought to outcome elevated driving vary.
A plethora of recent electrical motors throughout the Taycan vary promise not elevated energy and torque, but additionally extra regenerative braking, much less weight, and higher effectivity.
Jaan Mattes Reiling, technical supervisor for the e-tron GT, says the up to date sedan may also have an “improved suspension system [that] introduces new adjustment capabilities for the driving force”.
Based on Motor1 the revised e-tron GT vary can be topped by a brand new RS Efficiency variant.
Though particulars about this mannequin are understandably hush hush for now, it’s in all probability secure to imagine it have extra spuds than in the present day’s 475kW RS variant, however lower than the facelifted Taycan’s 760kW/1340Nm Turbo GT.