The Audi Q5 is already the second model, which will bring Audi as a hybrid in series. On a first exit, the SUV with two-liter gasoline engine and electric motor gave a taste of his talent.
Can anyone remember Duo on the Audi? He was the first hybrid car as standard offered in Europe in 1997, cost at the time about 60,000 German marks and used a combination of 90 PS TDI and 21-kW electric motor for propulsion. The customers Audi tore it however not just out of the hands: the production was already set back copies produced after not even 100 in June 1998. So it can go, when to advance his time is too far.
13 Years later, the time seems ripe for a second time. Currently, the Audi turns a Q5 hybrid on the finish line of the development of the series. The first customer cars are then delivered in the late summer of 2011. While it looked like two years ago, as the big brother of Audi Q7 hybrid with the technically almost identical siblings Porsche Cayenne and VW Touareg das Licht der Welt see. But in Ingolstadt decided differently, because the hybrid should be fit for the modular longitudinal modular system of the Audi family. The Porsche-VW Variant can be here but not easily integrated.
So everything on top. And of course parallels between the hybrid drives VW discover Touareg and Audi Q5 can. As an electric motor in the Bell of the automatic gearbox is in both cases instead of a torque converter, and the battery is hidden under the cargo floor of the cargo. While VW but relies on the nickel metal hydride technology, Audi used a lithium-ion battery in the Q5 hybrid. It has an energy content of 1.3 kWh and aimed at purely electric driving 100 km/h.
At constant 60 km/h Audi promises an electric range of at least three kilometres. The driver by pressing a button to select the E-mode. Usually decides Q5 but the motor control of the Audi hybrid the most fuel-efficient mode - electric, only petrol engine or combined. Aim is the consumption in the ECE cycle seven L / 100 km to press. What would be more than reputable in the face of tare nearly two tons.
A performance of 245 HP and maximum torque of 480 nm push the four-wheel driven Audi Q5 hybrid strongly forward, the impression of power corresponds to the a cylinder without question. However, the two-liter TFSI under load with ground frequencies and light vibrations, which he usually does not show surprise. The drive for this that he hybrid out of the starting first electric hit the Audi Q5 is, without that you must handle the accelerator overcautiously - that can other hybrid deserves a thick praise not as good. The change between the various conveyances happens already today so unobtrusive that one wonders why the delivery to start in a year.
Easy detail work is actually still on the brake of the Audi Q5 hybrid necessary. You delayed first electric (up to maximum 0,2 g), which somewhat unusually blunt feels and in the serial model. The crisp brake pressure point is still missing. And where we are on the criticizing: what should the broad 19-inch wheels on a car that will run but above all economical?
Audi has the right answer. The Audi Q5 to be just no fun free eco version but a typical and thus driving dynamic exceptionally talented Audi still tremendously stingy in addition handling to the virtue of this brand gasoline. We could already check that the statement with the driving dynamics is true. That he is as economical as promised, he must still prove, however.
In our slideshow, we present also the current hybrid SUV on the market next to the pictures to the test.
Can anyone remember Duo on the Audi? He was the first hybrid car as standard offered in Europe in 1997, cost at the time about 60,000 German marks and used a combination of 90 PS TDI and 21-kW electric motor for propulsion. The customers Audi tore it however not just out of the hands: the production was already set back copies produced after not even 100 in June 1998. So it can go, when to advance his time is too far.13 Years later, the time seems ripe for a second time. Currently, the Audi turns a Q5 hybrid on the finish line of the development of the series. The first customer cars are then delivered in the late summer of 2011. While it looked like two years ago, as the big brother of Audi Q7 hybrid with the technically almost identical siblings Porsche Cayenne and VW Touareg das Licht der Welt see. But in Ingolstadt decided differently, because the hybrid should be fit for the modular longitudinal modular system of the Audi family. The Porsche-VW Variant can be here but not easily integrated.
So everything on top. And of course parallels between the hybrid drives VW discover Touareg and Audi Q5 can. As an electric motor in the Bell of the automatic gearbox is in both cases instead of a torque converter, and the battery is hidden under the cargo floor of the cargo. While VW but relies on the nickel metal hydride technology, Audi used a lithium-ion battery in the Q5 hybrid. It has an energy content of 1.3 kWh and aimed at purely electric driving 100 km/h.
At constant 60 km/h Audi promises an electric range of at least three kilometres. The driver by pressing a button to select the E-mode. Usually decides Q5 but the motor control of the Audi hybrid the most fuel-efficient mode - electric, only petrol engine or combined. Aim is the consumption in the ECE cycle seven L / 100 km to press. What would be more than reputable in the face of tare nearly two tons.
A performance of 245 HP and maximum torque of 480 nm push the four-wheel driven Audi Q5 hybrid strongly forward, the impression of power corresponds to the a cylinder without question. However, the two-liter TFSI under load with ground frequencies and light vibrations, which he usually does not show surprise. The drive for this that he hybrid out of the starting first electric hit the Audi Q5 is, without that you must handle the accelerator overcautiously - that can other hybrid deserves a thick praise not as good. The change between the various conveyances happens already today so unobtrusive that one wonders why the delivery to start in a year.
Easy detail work is actually still on the brake of the Audi Q5 hybrid necessary. You delayed first electric (up to maximum 0,2 g), which somewhat unusually blunt feels and in the serial model. The crisp brake pressure point is still missing. And where we are on the criticizing: what should the broad 19-inch wheels on a car that will run but above all economical?
Audi has the right answer. The Audi Q5 to be just no fun free eco version but a typical and thus driving dynamic exceptionally talented Audi still tremendously stingy in addition handling to the virtue of this brand gasoline. We could already check that the statement with the driving dynamics is true. That he is as economical as promised, he must still prove, however.
In our slideshow, we present also the current hybrid SUV on the market next to the pictures to the test.
