When it comes to electric car technology, Tesla is far ahead of any other manufacturer. The The public seems to know, we in The media know itand Audi CEO Markus Duesmann apparently knows it too, according to a report published on Friday by Automotive News.
In the report, Duesmann admits that Audi is at least two years behind the Big T when it comes to computing power in its vehicles as well as in self-driving technology, which is not particularly surprising since Audi has only been super-pressure heavy on electrification for the last five years or so. It's just shocking to see how a CEO of an automotive company says it publicly.
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"Tesla currently has larger batteries because the cars are built around the batteries. Tesla is two years ahead in terms of computer and software architecture and autonomous driving," Duesmann said in a statement to the German Handelsblatt.
Now Audi shouldn't fall too much on itself because of Tesla's technological lead. We have spent a lot of time both in the E-Tron SUV and in Tesla of all kinds, and when it comes to things like build quality, Audi feels Light years ahead of Tesla. This is one of the advantages of a "legacy" manufacturer: Decades of building cars, it turns out, makes it pretty good to build cars.
Duesmann also had more to say to the Handelsblatt, this time about Audi sales. He expects the company to return to sales before COVID by 2022 or 2023. It's been a big deal since the company experienced this a pretty big seller in the midst of all quarantine efforts worldwide.
However, it is not all bleak, because while the company only sold 17,000 E-Trons in the first half of 2020, it is expected that 40,000 units will go to customers by the end of the year.
The Audi Q4 E-Tron Sportback concept will debut in 2021
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