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Audi revealed a promising concept, for a green and small city car, at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show, where it got mixed reactions from the motoring press. Proof that the general reception was not a great one, is the fact that Audi have now announced that they have completely given up on plans to put the A2 into production.
It was originally envisioned to begin rolling off the production line as of 2015, and being powered by either a full-electric powertrain or a plug-in hybrid variant. Plans were to give it an aluminium spaceframe construction, placed atop a ‘sandwhich floor’ construction, which would have housed the lithium-ion batteries needed to power it.
Audi claimed that they would be able to give the car a 200 km range, from a battery pack of unspecified capacity, which they also said could be fully-charged in only 4 hours. According to autocar.co.uk, who have acquired this information from a highly-placed unknown source, the experience gathered from the new A2 concept will be put to good use in other future green models.
However, this decision does say something about the general state of the European green market, which may have its peaks in countries like the Netherlands, Germany and other smaller and more developed nations, demand for EVs and hybrids still remains very low throughout most of the continent.
Audi claimed that they would be able to give the car a 200 km range, from a battery pack of unspecified capacity, which they also said could be fully-charged in only 4 hours. According to autocar.co.uk, who have acquired this information from a highly-placed unknown source, the experience gathered from the new A2 concept will be put to good use in other future green models.
However, this decision does say something about the general state of the European green market, which may have its peaks in countries like the Netherlands, Germany and other smaller and more developed nations, demand for EVs and hybrids still remains very low throughout most of the continent.
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