I WANT the Audi e-tron. #Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin and this is the

brand new Audi e-tron now howdy was

awesome F to sponsor our trip out here

to San Francisco for the launch event

and I've got to say I want one like I

really really want one the e-tron brand

has been around for a couple years now

primarily on the a3 e-tron it's a cool

car but it is a plug-in hybrid whereas

this is fully electric something I

really appreciate about the e-tron is

that it actually doesn't look ugly that

might sound like a backhanded compliment

but a lot of electric cars straight-up

do look like science projects this looks

like a classic outie with a little bit

of an electric Flair one of the easiest

ways to spot that this is an e-tron and

not a standard outie is going to be with

the grille it looks similar but the main

difference here is that it actually

isn't a full grille so in fact this is

the only area that will actually open it

up and that's purely based on how you

need to cool the battery or stuff like

the air-conditioning when you're on the

freeway it can all close up this is one

to be fully aerodynamic take a look

inside the e-tron what you're going to

find is something that is very much

classic aldi but with a lot of nice tech

touches so you get all kinds of

information up on here for example you

can get a giant high-resolution Google

map or you can get some more the

performance data it's more the economy

stuff as of course you're driving an

electric vehicle you want to be able to

see how efficiently you're driving

there's a bunch of different things that

you can do with virtual cockpit but that

my friends is just the beginning you

also have two additional screens here in

the center console so this is going to

be the main display it works for things

like your navigation and it does have

this nice little haptic touch feature

which is share with nalli this display

but also the one on the back seat this

is where you're going to do primarily

most of the stuff in the vehicle you can

pull up like car play your settings

whatever you want to do and below that

is where you can control all of the

different climate control stuff and a

couple of other settings so if I want I

can say just turn up the fan you can set

the dual zone climate control or you can

do a couple of other things like say

open your garage door or turn off the

screens altogether unfortunately we're

actually connected to the internet right

now but if we were I could show you that

Alexa is built into the e-tron this is a

new partnership with Amazon it's the

full version of Alexa which is using LTE

to be able to ask it well pretty much

anything you want so in theory you can

say on your way home hey Alexa

start my garage door open something

really cool that's sadly not coming to

the US is the virtual mirror now right

now it's going to be too loose into

Europe mostly because of the regulations

here but essentially it replaces the

standard mirrors with cameras what this

means is that not going to help with

aerodynamics but this little section

right here is going to be replaced with

an OLED display which will then show you

what's going to be going on behind you

on top of that it will even adjust the

view based on how quickly you're driving

so you might see a little bit of a wider

view on the freeway or a little bit of a

tighter view when you're on a side

street or whatever the case is but it's

going to be fully adjustable and it's a

freaking camera on a screen and your

side mirror thing I want it the start of

the show here is definitely the electric

powertrain now you guys you can kind of

see this from the outside so underneath

the floor of the cabin is going to be

the full 95 watt hour cell there is a

lot of engineering that goes into that

battery cell so on top of being about

the largest capacity that you can get on

any electric vehicle right now there's

going to be a lot of safety and

importantly a lot of cooling inside the

entire bottom of the battery is all

going to be liquid cooled and on top of

that this crash structure around it is

hugely important because you know if

someone hits your car you don't want

your batteries to be impacted so now

these are going to be an actual crash

structure on the side of the cell but

each individual battery cell they're

going to be 36 of them that take up the

actual battery space they're all going

to be individually protected with a very

strong steel frame there's not a final

us range number available for the e-tron

yet since it won't be going on sale

until next year but based on the

European cycle you should expect 200

plus miles on a charge and that combined

with the ultra fast charging should mean

that well I don't care it's fine it's

plenty for me the e-tron will charge it

up to 150 kilowatts now as far as I know

that's about the quickest electric

vehicle charge that you can find at a

full 150 kilowatt hour charge what you

can do is you can get this thing from 0%

to 80% in 30 minutes the e-tron is

powered by a pair of electric motors one

on the rear axle one on the front now in

addition to giving you the full outtie

quattro experience of all-wheel drive

you're going to be getting some pretty

decent power so the finalized figures

aren't in just yet here in the US but

you should expect somewhere in the

neighborhood of 350 to 400 horsepower

and importantly since it is an electric

vehicle you're going to have a lot of

torque and is going to be instant

there's also a boost mode

on board so if you want just a little

bit of extra power say you're trying to

outrun marques or something not that I

would ever do that in an e-tron then

there's actually going to be a little

bit of extra power for a few seconds

which you can engage either by putting

the car in sport mode or if you really

flip floor the throttle there's actually

a button on the back side of the pedal

which will then give you just a little

bit of extra juice for a few seconds

even though it's an electric vehicle

you're not giving up a lot of

practicality so this has standard air

suspension which you can see is

currently lowering all the way down you

have a couple inches of play whether you

want to go off row or you want to go

into dynamic mode which is just a fine

mode you should drive it in fun mode and

if you really want to go crazy with it

this can actually tow up to 4,000 pounds

if you get the tow package which I just

kind of want to try because you know an

electric car that's fast and roomy and

can tow I'm just really trying to sell

my fiance on this right now so just

between us

she's just roll with it okay what really

impresses me with the e-tron is that it

feels like it is the full package sure

you're getting an electric vehicle but

it's also a luxurious outing with all

the bells and whistles and importantly

all the functionality that you would

expect I was kind of surprised to say

this but I'm glad that Audi really

sponsored a trip out here because I

legitimately want an e-tron