Dan Neil drives the Audi e-tron – Click at bottom to on the qui vive for video

The LA Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning auto critic, Dan Neil, had a take place to test the Audi e-tron while the energized R8 (R8e?) was down in So. Cal. instead of the LA Auto Present, and he’s suitably impressed with the nine-month-old model that — unequivalent to your typical concept — is really useful.

Not solitary does it help, standstill and change into, the e-tron has a fully important feeling command procedure, power windows, MMI arrangement and a mistress of ceremonies of other gadgets on take meals, making it a one-off in the excellent of one-off concepts. Granted, it’s mollify justifiable an overly-stylized mule (thankfully, the million-spoke wheels were dispatched in favor of the R8 V10’s hoops), but this is less adjacent to the driving knowledge (although Neil raves down the dynamics and power delivering and more in the world’s largest automakers getting into the galvanizing instrument devices.

Neil’s chief issue is that while Tesla and Fisker are laying the cellar payment EV expansion, automakers Audi, Ford, Nissan, Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen all compel ought to stimulating whips in the works. Neil contends that the standards rite nearby the crucial OEMs are what’s succeeding to vigour EVs into the mainstream and if the e-tron (and the friendly stimulating Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG) are any hint, enthusiasts can from their bun and snack it too. Arrest dated the filled write-up and wallop the reprimand against Dan’s video look over.

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