- Manufacturing of the Audi Q8 E-Tron ends Feb. 28
- It is unclear if 2025 Q8 E-Trons will arrive within the U.S.
- Audi’s EV lineup will proceed with the This fall E-Tron, Q6 E-Tron, A6 E-Tron, and E-Tron GT
Audi will cease Q8 E-Tron manufacturing two months into the brand new yr, bringing an finish to the electrical SUV that—in its authentic E-Tron kind—ushered in Audi’s electrical period.
First reported by Reuters, the manufacturing unit in Brussels, Belgium, that builds the Q8 E-Tron will shut down by Feb. 28. Audi had been searching for to promote the Belgian plant, and a shutdown has appeared possible since November, when the automaker instructed Reuters that it had been unable to discover a purchaser. And Automotive Information reported in July that the Q8 E-Tron is perhaps on the chopping block.
2025 Audi Q8 E-Tron
Now we all know that the Q8 E-Tron is certainly on the best way out, as manufacturing won’t be shifted to a different plant. Whereas Audi has already introduced 2025-model-year pricing, a spokesperson instructed Inexperienced Automotive Studies that each one automobiles at the moment within the automaker’s U.S. stock are 2024 fashions. The provision of 2025 fashions will depend upon whether or not any remaining manufacturing is allotted to the U.S.
Audi was solely planning small modifications to characteristic content material for 2025, plus a $600 base-price bump to $76,095 (together with a $1,295 vacation spot cost).
2025 Audi Q8 E-Tron
The Q8 E-Tron was solely launched for the 2024 mannequin yr, as a heavy replace of the Audi E-Tron, the automaker’s first quantity EV. It carried over all the great issues from the E-Tron—together with good security scores—however with considerably sharpened dealing with and extra driving vary. It achieved as much as 300 miles of EPA vary in sleeker Sportback kind with the efficiency-focused Extremely Bundle, however that choice was as a consequence of be discontinued for 2025, knocking vary all the way down to 272 miles.
Whereas the Q8 E-Tron shares its MLB platform with gasoline fashions, Audi now has a number of devoted EV platforms at its disposal. The entry-level This fall E-Tron shares with MEB platform with Volkswagen EVs just like the ID.4, the E-Tron GT is predicated on the identical J1 platform because the Porsche Taycan, and the incoming Q6 E-Tron and A6 E-Tron use the identical Premium Platform Electrical (PPE) because the Porsche Macan EV. PPE will possible function the idea for Audi EVs going ahead—together with any potential substitute for the Q8 E-Tron.