First Audi A3 Sportback E-Tron Plug-In Hybrid Crusade Off The Assembly Trouble Inwards Ingolstadt
Production of the Audi A3 Sportback e-tron: Assembly – On the engine as well as ingredient assembly line, the electrical motor as well as transmission are fitted to the engine.
Approximately fifty cars every day, amongst the same timing as well as on the same assembly trace of piece of occupation equally the other models: Audi is forthwith ramping upwards production of the Audi A3 Sportback e-tron*. The premium manufacturer is producing its rootage plug-in hybrid model at the brand's brain found inwards Ingolstadt.
"We started serial production of the Audi A3 Sportback e‑tron inwards the summer," said physician Hubert Waltl, Board of Management Member for Production at AUDI AG. "Most of the assembly run is integrated into the A3 line; no dissever manufacturing is necessary. That demonstrates the flexibility as well as efficiency of our production planners as well as employees."
With the Audi A3 Sportback e‑tron, Audi is launching the mobility of the future. The compact five‑door combines a 1.4 TFSI combustion engine amongst a 75 kW electrical motor, resulting inwards a full arrangement output of 150 kW (204 horsepower). Despite the sporty driving performance, fuel consumption inwards the NEDC is simply 1.5 liters per 100 kilometers (35 grams of CO2 per kilometer). The A3 Sportback e‑tron tin move upwards to fifty kilometers inwards purely electrical manner as well as upwards to 890 kilometers to a greater extent than amongst the gasoline engine.
"We rootage of all ramped upwards production of the A3 Sportback e‑tron to nigh thirty cars a solar daytime inwards September," explained Board of Management fellow member for Production Waltl. "Our summit is about fifty units each solar daytime now. In whatever case, nosotros are keeping additional capacity available."
Peter Kössler, caput of the Ingolstadt plant, stated: "Working amongst high‑voltage systems inwards serial production was a novel challenge for us, but nosotros mastered it well. At all stages of assembly, nosotros hand maximum levels of security for our employees as well as character for our customers."
Safety is given overstep priority during the entire assembly process. All the employees who come upwards into contact amongst the A3 Sportback e‑tron accept received technical security instructions for the novel technology; some employee who are need involved are qualified equally specialist electricians for automotive technology.
