Audi A3 e-tron: Specifications, Price Guide and Pre-Launch Drive
What’s hot: Rapid acceleration, beautiful chassis balance, the future… right here.
What’s not: No room for a spare tyre, 150kg heavier than standard A3.
X-FACTOR: This is no ‘green slug’: the e-tron has the performance of a warm hatch, but the fuel economy of a herbivore.
Vehicle style: Small petrol/electric hybrid hatch
Price: Not available, but Audi is quoting “around $60,000”
Engine/trans: 110kW/250Nm 1.4 TFSI + 75kW/330Nm electric motor | 6spd auto
System output: 150kW and 350Nm
Performance: 0-100km/h in 7.6 seconds, top speed 222 km/h
Electric range: up to 50 km, combined range up to 940km
Fuel consumption claimed: 1.6 l/100 km | CO2 emissions: 37g per km
OVERVIEW
If you’re about to launch a new electric hybrid onto the Australian market, Hamilton Island is a good place to make a point about ‘electric transport’.
After all, this privately-owned island resort is all-electric.
Its few roads, though mostly steep, hum to the sounds of electric ‘golf buggies - and they’re everywhere. There’s a bare handful of conventional cars, and the occasional small bus, for those things that a buggy can’t do.
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