In the race to lure luxury customers into electric vehicles, Audi CEO Rupert Stadler is making his ambitions clear.
As Silicon Valley automaker Tesla Motors preps the release of its third luxury electric vehicle this month and Porsche weighs a battery-powered concept called Mission E, Audi is readying its own offering: the e-tron quattro.
It's a concept, but possibly a realistic vision of where Audi is headed. The company confirmed at Frankfurt Motor Show here that it will release a luxury electric crossover in early 2018.
At 16 feet long, 6.3 feet wide and 5.1 feet high, the four-seat e-tron quattro boasts what Audi described as a "coupe-like silhouette." It's longer than Audi's Q5 crossover and shorter than its Q7.(usatoday)
