It’s become telly the fact whether Audi will pull the market the Audi R8 E-tron. The German company late last May announced in the most formal way that the electric version of the R8 will not see the light of production, mainly because of low autonomy offer batteries, the slow charging time, as the cost.
The Germans had left open the possibility that he could see the streets sometime in the future when the battery technology improved, with Australian media to speak that Audi has finally decided to move on because the production technology of lithium-ion batteries has improved, but also because of the placement of Ulrich Hackenberg in place of Wolfgang Dürheimer, as head of research and development of Audi, the Dürheimer accused by Audi as a main controller that the A1 e-tron and R8 e-tron is not crossed into production.
According to rumors, the R8 e-tron will go into limited production in late 2014 with batteries to offer autonomy of 400 miles, almost double compared to the 215 miles that the Audi had announced last year. Performance will be wearing two electric performance 280 kW (381 hp) with 820 Nm of torque, with 0-100 km/h to make 4,2 sec with a top speed electronically limited to 200 km/h.
