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Audi, though, might have just set a record for bringing technology from the racetrack to the road. It launched the R18 E-Tron Quattro and R18 Ultra with a rear-facing camera for the rearview mirror. Audi has announced that the R8 E-Tron will also ...

The plant creates electricity from wind turbines.

Audi has officially opened its E-Gas facility in Wertle, Germany, that will supply methane produced via electrolysis to the German grid. The system uses water, carbon dioxide and electricity to produce methane. Vehicles that use the methane from t...

Allows biomethane to be made from CO2 and Hydrogen

Audi has finished its e-gas factory in Werlte, Germany, that makes bio-methane from CO2 and hydrogen. E-gas production will begin in early 2013, and sales to the public natural gas infrastructure will begin in summer 2013. It is the first aut...

From a public safety perspective, one of the major problems with EVs is that they do not produce as much noise compared to an internal combustion engine. Pedestrians can not hear them coming, and the safety conscious are concerned that pedestrians...

Audi is adding a new concept car to its e-tron family. This time it’s the e-tron Spyder, a roadster version of the e-tron, presented at the 2010 Detroit Motor Show. The e-tron Spyder concept brings to Paris the plug-in hybrid drive on an open ...

The Audi will field two R18 E-tron Quattros in the rest of the WEC rounds this season. Until this point, it has raced one E-tron Quattro and one R18 Ultra. The next WEC race is the Six Hours of Bahrain on September 29. Audi says that the chang...

Sales for the year are already up 7.4% for the year

Audi exceeded last year’s total sales in November and will have a record year of sales in 2013. Audi sold 132,050 cars in November, up 6.8% from the previous year. Its top three markets were China with 17.9% growth, the UK with 13.6% growth ...

Video has R8 pulling on a dyno with open exhaust

Audi has teamed up with augmented reality company Blippar to create a fantastic advertisement for the R8 V10 Plus.   When pedestrians in the UK see the ad, they can aim their phone at it to take them to the video. Audi plans to do more ad...

The factory has a 125,000 vehicle per year capacity

Audi has begun production of the A3 Sedan at its new factory in Györ, Hungary. The factory is Audi's completely new factory in Hungary in 20 years cost €900 million and includes a press shop, body shop, paint shop and assembly line. ...

Audi has unveiled the refreshed the A5 model line with a new engine option, revised exterior and a different engine in the S5. The car will be getting a new 1.8 liter, petrol four-cylinder engine with turbocharger in the base model. In all the A5 can...