Audi drops a new electric Q4 e-tron Sportback crossover—on sale in 2022
Production starts in 2021, US deliveries a year later. …
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Party up top, business down below—the Audi Q4 e-tron Sportback is a new electric crossover due in 2022.
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Dramatic body creases dominate the styling of this fastback crossover.
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The vehicle uses Volkswagen’s MEB electric architecture but will feature Audi-specific tuning.
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This is the Audi Q4 e-tron, the not-sportback version that goes on sale first, in late 2021 here in the US.
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If you flick rapidly between this image and the previous one, you can see the styling differences.
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A battery EV means you can have more interior space for the same exterior volume thanks to the powertrain being down low.
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The Q4 e-tron Sportback’s interior looks amazing.
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And also identical to the Q4 e-tron’s interior.
The plan to rapidly electrify a post-diesel Volkswagen Group relies on a similar strategy to the plan that made it the world’s second-largest automaker: design a flexible, extensible vehicle architecture, then use that across multiple brands to build a dizzying array of cars, crossovers, SUVs, and so on. The first of these architectures is called MEB (Modularer E-Antriebs-Baukasten, or Modular Electrification Toolkit), which is for small and medium-sized vehicles and is on track to debut with the VW ID.3 hatch in Europe in September. Here in the US, we’ll get our
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