Ingolstadt, - The condition of electric cars' market's still questioned by Audi. The long project of electric cars implemented by Audi should be postponed, or even cancelled.
Audi cancel the production of electric cars and hybrid A2 and A1 e-tron, so the information delivered by one of the executives who reported leftlanenews Audi, yesterday (5/6). Many obstacles to make the environmentally friendly vehicles that could be introduced at the Frankfurt Motor Show 2011 and will enter the production line in 2015, it was decided to not produce.
Among the constraints, regarding market conditions. Here, Audi sales glance Nissan Leaf is fairly slow, and only 3,000 units last year. Another factor, production cost and is not supported by sales volume.
In fact, A2 is projected to be released at a price of 40,000 euros, or about USD 484 million which is to be on the Leaf. Substantial production costs also affect the sale price soaring.
A2 is prepared to block the electric car BMW i3. It was confident of being able to fight back fiercely with price projections will not be too far away with his rival. Although the electric car project canceled, Audi still produce conventional and diesel engine variants.
