The German automotive giant intends to reduce the total life-cycle emissions produced by every last one of its vehicles by 30 percent by 2025, compared to 2015.
To this end, the company will be actively pursuing research and development of battery-powered cars and attempt to maximize their share in the total car sales. By 2050, the marque expects to eliminate emission-producing vehicles.
Audi had previously already released ‘pure’ EVs in small batches (take the R8 e-tron, for example), but the 2018 e-tron SUV became the marque’s first truly mass-produced electric car. Its coupe-shaped variant called the e-tron Sportback should emerge later this year, followed by the e-tron GT and the Q4 e-tron in 2020. Later plans are not entirely clear at this point, but it would be logical to expect a mini-SUV called the Q2 e-tron, at least.
According to the latest revision of its development strategy, Audi intends to expand its electrified range to 30 models by 2025, including 20 all-electric ones (up from just 12 last year). The manufacturer expects battery vehicles and hybrids to make up 40% of its total sales by that year.