CPS 2023: Audi e-Tron GT

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The Audi e-Tron boasts 350 kW of silent shove and 660 N.m of instantaneous torque, this was going to be an attention-grabbing addition to our Shootout ensemble. Our principal concern can be the restricted vary coupled with a scarcity of fast-charging stations en route.

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The choice was made to flatbed the automotive to the Saldanha airstrip. It was to be a one-day outing, efficiency check all of the automobiles, conduct drag races with video footage and, lastly, at nightfall, set the automobiles up for a gaggle photograph shoot. All of this might have greater than depleted the Audi’s batteries, so we skipped the R27 return drive for the primary day.

Thereafter, the  e-Tron GT must hold observe of the remainder of the pack. Because the plan was to return to our base every evening, we might drop the GT on the Audi dealership in Century Metropolis to replenish the batteries, prepared for motion the next day. Counterintuitive as it might really feel, the trick to extending the vary on these EVs is to restrict your thirst for velocity so far as potential. Accepting that is speculated to be a GT, should you hold the velocity to 110 km/h or decrease, you can be pleasantly glad with the working vary.

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Picture: Peet Mocke

This car’s greatest downside has nothing to do with batteries or charging. It has to do with warmth. The big glass roof could also be well-tinted, however there is no such thing as a shading display screen. We had been driving within the spring, not full-on summer time, and had been nowhere close to the warmest areas of our nation. Nonetheless, the warmth from above was nearly insufferable. You must discover shady spots to park, or the inside can change into a veritable hothouse, and you will have to put on a cap or hat to maintain the glare of the solar away out of your eyes. After all, you might crank up the air-con to cut back the warmth, however when the highway is lengthy and charging stops indeterminate, it’s prudent to err on the facet of warning and restrict its use.

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Picture: Peet Mocke

A few highlights had been snaking by way of mountain passes and the benefit with which you’ll overtake slow-moving site visitors. Dutoitskloof Move has few overtaking spots and just some quick double-lane sections the place vans can transfer out of the way in which. The issue is these segments are available simply two sizes, quick and generally dangerously quick. It wasn’t a problem for the e-Tron, although, because it blasted previous site visitors on the drop of a hat. The paddle shifters had been complicated as no steps are supplied as with some CVTs. As an alternative, they modify the extent of re-gen braking. As that is on no account abrupt, the best setting – with its respectable capacity to reap braking vitality – is greatest.

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