This platform is more than flexible enough to enable Audi to achieve its stated goal of having over 20 different models in its e-portfolio by 2026. If you think that sounds like measurements from the A6 sedan to the Q7 crossover and everything in between, you’re right on the money. By shoveling money into PPE, they’ve created a platform which can birth vehicles of wheelbases ranging from 2,890 – 3,080 mm (113.7 – 121.3 inches), ground clearances from 152 – 217 mm (5.9 – 8.6 inches), and variable axle tracks of 1,641 – 1,714 mm (64.6 – 67.5 inches). Ingolstadt has an advantage I do not possess: billions of Euros with which to achieve their goal. If this author could shift his ragged front lawn from its current state of 5 per cent grass and 95 per cent weeds to 100 per cent grass in the same amount of time, I could call myself the Jolly Green Giant and never darken the door of Atlantic Co-op Country Stores ever again. That’s a long way from EVs comprising the whole shooting match by 2033. While a jump of more than 57 per cent is an impressive stat, it’s important to know EVs still only make up about 5 per cent of the brand’s sales which totaled 1.68 million units in 2021. The first production vehicle built on PPE is planned for launch in 2023.Įven though we’re still at least one trip around the sun away from vehicles using this scalable PPE platform, current tech at Audi has permitted them to accelerate along the road to full electrification, increasing global deliveries of battery electric vehicles to 81,894 units in 2021 compared to 52,011 the year prior. In fact, they claim it will be possible to use this single platform both for utility vehicles with high body styles or low-slung cars with dynamic and flat architecture - like the Audi A6 Avant - without any changes to the basic architecture. This is a set of bones designed exclusively for battery-electric drive systems on which Audi plans to construct a wide range of EVs. Leading the charge (pun firmly intended) will be cars like the recently unveiled A6 e-tron Avant, a concept car built on the brand’s new Premium Platform Electric (PPE) technology.
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