Audi aims to see EVs accounting for a good 25 to 30 per cent of its overall sales by the year 2025 and making the company sell products, which would rule the roost in the coming future across the globe.
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Stadler told daily Heilbronner Stimme in an interview published on Saturday that Audi’s offering of electric cars would also include small vehicles in the A-segment. In addition to launching electric vehicles, Audi is also said to be planning an autonomous vehicle to be developed under a subsidiary named SDS Company.
In order to focus on EVs and autonomous technologies, the company will reduce complexity in other areas of its business, Stadler said.
Audi is a part of parent conglomerate Volkswagen AG, which is looming under dark clouds for its wrong deeds of cheating the emission norms with its diesel cars sold across the globe.
“We have discussed what would happen if we dropped the two-door version of the A3”, he commented.
Audi’s current electrification program has focussed on plug-in hybrid variants of existing vehicles, like the A3 e-tron offered in Australia, but it set to expand beyond hybrid technology with the e-tron banner set to cover both hybrid and pure-electric vehicles.
Stadler wasn’t spilling the beans on the new cars, but did say there would be a subcompact among them.
Weekly magazine Automobilwoche had earlier reported that Audi was cutting budgets for external projects.
Finally, Audi is also looking to create fuel cell cars, reportedly saying that such vehicles are a “must”. For the CEO though, the question is more about infrastructure, than broadening the technology itself.
Audi’s technical development chief Stefan Knirsch informed Stuttgarter Zeitung in a separate interview released on Saturday that he anticipated Audi would not start serial production of a fuel cell automobile before 2020 because of the absence of charging stations.
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