Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Audi to launch electric car range
Carmaker switches focus to hybrid technology
Audi plans on launching a range of electric cars within the next five to ten years.
The luxury brand will focus more intently on producing zero emission vehicles in the medium term, according to press reports.
Rupert Stadler, Audi’s chairman, told German newspaper Welt am Sonntag that he expects diesel and battery technology to dominate in the coming five to ten years.
"Electric cars offer great opportunities, which we have already seized on," Stadler said.
He denied that Audi already lagged behind rivals BMW and Mercedes in developing hybrid technology and claimed that the brand’s research capacities were larger than those of its German competitors.
DATED: 07.05.08
FEED: MT
Audi plans on launching a range of electric cars within the next five to ten years.
The luxury brand will focus more intently on producing zero emission vehicles in the medium term, according to press reports.
Rupert Stadler, Audi’s chairman, told German newspaper Welt am Sonntag that he expects diesel and battery technology to dominate in the coming five to ten years.
"Electric cars offer great opportunities, which we have already seized on," Stadler said.
He denied that Audi already lagged behind rivals BMW and Mercedes in developing hybrid technology and claimed that the brand’s research capacities were larger than those of its German competitors.
DATED: 07.05.08
FEED: MT
