It costs a lot of money to produce a car battery, so when a manufacturer slams a smaller battery in an electric car, the price can be lowered.

At Audi, they have now presented a new indstigningsmodel of the electric car e-tron, which gets nicknamed the ‘e-tron 50’, and therefore the starting price of the electric car from Audi from 799.990 kr. now to lie on the 569.990 kr.

The kind of price drop comes, of course, not without compromises, and in this case, you should be able to live with that the scope will fall from the 437 km, of which the present e-tron 55 can run on a charge, to be on the 329 km in the e-tron 50.

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the Explanation lies in the fact that the battery in the e-tron 50 get a gross capacity of 71 kWh. In the e-tron 55 the of 95 kWh. In the base version of the e-tron weighs the battery 150 kg less than in the large version.

Quick acceleration
Even though the e-tron 50 fewer horsepower than in the larger model, so will the people under acceleration miss effort. Thanks to an overall performance of 313 hp and a torque of 540 Nm may be the smallest version of the electric-powered SUV accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in 6,8 sec., while the top speed is electronically limited to 190 km/h.

At a lynlader can the Audi e-tron 50 quattro is loaded up with a ladeeffekt of up to 120 kW. Thus is the electric car ready for the next long trip with 80 percent power after about a half hour. As an alternative, the battery can be recharged with alternating current at a ladeeffekt at 11 kW in about seven hours.

With all of Audi’s electric cars follow in Denmark a standard installation of a Clever-ladeboks, a Clever Unlimited subscription with unlimited charging for a fixed monthly price for the customer, as well as a ladebrik that provides access to the Clevers network of public charging points.

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