- Excellent optimum efficiency for electric-drive growth vehicles
- Rushing car owner Markus Winkelhock piloted the new electric operated activities car with 280 kW output
- Eileen Dick: "To us, electric operated flexibility indicates characteristics and generating pleasure"
The upcoming of electrical operated flexibility at Audi is dynamic: The R8 e-tron has set any record for a growth automobile with a operated produce program on the Nürburgring Nordschleife – the hardest analyze monitor on the globe. Rushing car owner Markus Winkelhock piloted the high-performance, all-electric-drive activities car around the challenging 20.8-kilometer (12.92-mile) monitor in 8:09.099 moments. With this Audi has obtained yet another landmark in its record, following overall benefits at the 24-hour competitions at the Nürburgring and Le Guys.
"The R8 e-tron has given a spectacular display of its prospective on the hardest monitor on the globe," said Eileen Penis, AUDI AG Panel Participant for Specialized Development. Penis, who accomplished a quick lap himself in the R8 e-tron, added: "The record-setting produce verified that we are on the right monitor. To us, electric operated flexibility has never been about compromise, but rather is about sentiment, sportiness and generating satisfaction."
A evaluation with the present record lap motivated by a burning engined growth car reveals just how amazing the 8:09.099-minute time really is. The a few months span of 7:11.57 moments was obtained with a Gumpert Apollo Game, which is operated by a 515 kW (700 hp) Audi V8 petrol website.
The produce program of the Audi R8 e-tron that Markus Winkelhock owned to the globe record goes along in everything with that of the style that will come in the marketplace at the end of the season. Both of the vehicle's electric operated engines produce an outcome of 280 kW and 820 Nm of torque; more than 4,900 Nm (3,614.05 lb-ft) are allocated to the back tires nearly from a status begin.
The Audi R8 e-tron boosts from zero to 0 to 100 km/h (62.14 mph) in just 4.6 a few moments. Its top rate is normally restricted to 200 km/h (124.27 mph); 250 km/h (155.34 mph) was accepted for the record-setting lap.
The R8 e-tron's conventional lithium-ion power supply shops 49 KWh of power – enough for a range of about 215 kilometers (133.59 miles). Its "T" appearance allows it to be set up in the middle tube and in the place between the traveler pocket and the back axle. It is billed by power restoration during coasting and stopping. The ultralight car body system of the Audi R8 e-tron is made mainly of metal, along with CFRP components; this is a major purpose why the high-performance activities car is just 1,780 kgs (3,924.23 lb), despite the huge power supply.
In purchase to further emphasize the production-relevance of the R8 e-tron and the ability of its produce technological innovation, Audi has set another record on the Nordschleife moreover to the individual lap a few months span. Instantly afterwards, Markus Winkelhock owned two quick temps in one go in a second R8 e-tron that was restricted to 200 km/h (124.27 mph). At 8:30.873 and 8:26.096 moments, both temps were well under the essential nine-minute tolerance.
"The record pushes were a amazing encounter for me," said Markus Winkelhock. The 32-year-old, who life near Stuttgart, has a higher conventional for evaluation – the Audi R8 LMS super, in which he, along with Marc Basseng, Captain christopher Haase and Honest Stippler, won the 24-hour competition at the Nürburgring a couple of several weeks ago.
"Of course, the R8 e-tron is a growth car, not a racing car with the support of the rules of aerodynamics," Winkelhock highlighted. "But with its low middle of severity and back one-sided bodyweight submission, it delivers with it a lot of amazing features. The twisting with which the electrical operated engines drive the car constant surpasses everything that I know – even if they make hardly any disturbance in the procedure, which at the begin was really a absolutely new encounter for me. In locations where I really need grip, the twisting vectoring – the displacement of the twisting between the operated tires – really allows me."
Michael Penis happily summarized activities after the record-setting produce at the Nürburgring. "Within just a couple of several weeks we've taken on some big difficulties and in the procedure we've proven that we are at the leading edge with all of our produce principles," he said, adding:"We won the 24-hour competition at the Nürburgring in May in the Audi R8 LMS super with a ten-cylinder website.
In mid-June we triumphed at the 24 Time of Le Guys with the Audi R18 e-tron quattro – the first overall success for a hybrid-electric automobile in the hardest competition on the globe. And now we've set another record with the all-electric-drive R8 e-tron on the most challenging monitor there is."