Here’s what we know about the Audi Q6 e-tron and its all-new EV platform
Enlarge / This is Audi's next electric vehicle, the Q6 e-tron SUV. (credit: Audi)
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MUNICH-Audi's new electric car platform is an important one for the company. Debuting in the new 2025 Q6 e-tron, it will provide the bones for many new electric Audis-not to mention Porsches and even Lamborghinis and Bentleys-in the coming years. Its development hasn't been entirely easy, either; software delays got in the way of plans to have cars in customer hands in 2023. But now the new Q6 e-tron is ready to meet the world.
There's some rather interesting technology integrated into the Q6 e-tron's new electric vehicle architecture. Called PPE, or Premium Platform Electric, it's been designed with flexibility in mind. Audi took the role of leading its development within Volkswagen Group, but the other brands within that corporate empire that target the upper end of the car market will also build EVs with PPE.
Since SUVs are still super-popular, Audi is kicking off the PPE era with an SUV. But the platform allows for other sizes and shapes-next year, we should see the A6 sedan and, if we're really lucky, an A6 Avant station wagon.