The electric revolution is well underway in the automobile world. There’s no way to turn this landslide around, even if you’re not exactly on the same boat as everyone else on the matter. Then again, to be honest, with the Earth suffering from decades of fossil fuel abuse, the uprising of the Electric Vehicles (if you can call this as such), has been a longtime coming according to many. Therefore, over the past several years, almost every major automaker (and even some folks with a handy garage) have been striving to make sustainability EVs a reality. Whilst the first ones were nothing more than practical experiments to see the viability of the idea, the current crop of EVs are in their prime and even promote the concept of the luxury EV.
One of the leading lights, when it comes to luxury EVs, in the current market scenario is the fabulously advanced and stylish Audi e-tron GT. Coming into its butterfly stage of evolution in 2020, the e-tron GT is anything but a simply electric vehicle that only combats climate change. In fact, the Four Rings wanted to change the notion of the brand’s approach to clean & green vehicles so bad, whilst also maintain its status as the maker of the R8 supercar, it dropped the curtain on an electrically-energized version of something you might have seen in video games many years ago – this is where the e-tron GT materialized itself from paper to a real car!
In just a couple of years of its existence, the Audi e-tron GT has gone on to win many awards. Just in, actually, is the fact that the swanky German brand has bagged the prestigious 2022 World Car Awards in categories like ‘World Electric Vehicle of the Year’, ‘World Performance Car’, and ‘World Car Design of the Year’. The award ceremony itself, as always, these days, was held in New York, USA. Often referred to as the “Oscars of the automotive world”, winning three categories at this event is nothing short of amazing and heartwarming – especially, if you’re Audi, in this case. Then again, Audi has been winning various awards for its cars since 2005, so they’re not exactly begging for one by this point.
Celebrating the success of the award-winning Audi e-tron GT was Carsten Bender, Managing Director of Audi Middle East, who said, “We are delighted that the Audi e-tron GT has won the 2022 World Performance Car of the Year award! The e-tron GT was the only EV contestant in its particular category, competing with other powerful world-renowned performance vehicles. This win is testament to our vision of the future of mobility and is a symbol of the path we are on as a brand.”
If you weren’t aware, the Audi e-tron GT is underpinned by the same J1 platform as the Porsche Taycan – of course, both these fall under the same VW umbrella at the end of the day. In the case of the Audi, it basically comes in two electric avatars. There’s the standard e-tron GT and then the even faster RS e-tron GT. Both come equipped with dual electric motors that drive the front & rear axles for a true all-wheel-drive (AWD) configuration – quattro, as Audi likes to call it. The standard e-tron GT packs in up to 530hp and 640Nm of peak torque, and features a 93.4 kWh (83.7 kWh usable) battery pack. This punchy powertrain will take you from 0-100 kph in only 4.1 seconds – brilliant for a heavy, luxury EV loaded with tech.
On the other hand, should you demand even more oomph, there’s always the feistier e-tron GT. This one has its electric motors tuned all the way up to 11, so it now wields a bonkers 646hp (in Boost mode) and 830Nm of torque. This equates to the 2.3-ton sports sedan going from naught to the ton-mark in an orgasmic yet silent 3.3 seconds! No doubt, this thing will embarrass certain ICE McLarens and Porsches. Even with its specialized 2-speed transmission, the Audi RS e-tron GT is limited to 250 kph (around 240 kph for the standard model). However, the e-tron GT doesn’t fall apart when you show it some corners, despite its heavy curb weight. So, a brilliantly-slick design, beautifully-made interior, modern technologies & features, and a fun-to-drive and ultra-responsive drivetrain – the Audi e-tron GT sure leaves an experience on the novice and experienced driver, alike.
