Looks like the hype around the electric vehicles is produced more by car manufacturers than their customers. It seems like in the nearest future there will be no cars powered by petrol alone. Right now Audi considers creating sedans and crossovers fitted with electric motors.
As a reminder, those are not new experiments. The production of the Audi R8 e-tron supercar had to be launched two years ago, if it weren’t for one essential issue — the distance a car could travel on a single charge was too small. New batteries were optimised to provide the travel range of 450 km, which is similar to the range on a single tank of fuel or the range of cars produced by Tesla, the pioneers in electric car manufacturing. An upgraded e-tron will start rolling off the production lines in 2015.
As reported by Reuters, Audi has already begun working on next projects — electrically-driven sports sedans and crossovers. It might be a reincarnated plug-in Q8 model. Details are scant at this stage, therefore its major all-road rival Tesla Model X might breathe freely.
According to the experts, the demand on electric cars might rise sharply in 5–7 years. That is why European car manufacturers are getting ready now to be on top of drivers’ lists when the time comes. However, statistically, experts are right in roughly half the instances. Let’s wait and see whether it is going to be a half-empty or half-full glass.
