Audi’s subsequent all-electric RS style has been spied checking out on public roads. 

The Audi RS6 e-tron will come after the logo’s first electrical sedan, the A6 e-tron, and can bolster the electrical RS vary already established through the RS e-tron GT.

Whilst earlier undercover agent pictures had been believed to be of S6 mules, the broader tracks and enlarged brakes all however ascertain those undercover agent pictures depict the following full-fat RS style, relatively than a S6 prototype. 

From the entrance it’s transparent the RS6 will proceed to function new split-level headlights, even if this tester differs from the unique A6 e-tron idea automobile. 

It’s most likely the camouflage wrap in this RS6 prototype is obscuring some aerodynamic components, as the overall options of the entrance bumper are very similar to earlier undercover agent pictures of what at the moment are believed to be S6 prototypes. 

What’s noticeably other in this prototype alternatively, is the widened tracks and wheel arches. The decrease entrance bumper now finishes rapidly as pumped arches area wider entrance wheels. 

At the back of those entrance wheels take a seat huge, cross-drilled brake rotors gripped through really extensive mono-block brake callipers.

Transferring additional rearward, there seems to be extra aggressively creased frame panels alongside the decrease floor of the automobile. 

Curiously, this prototype is dressed in other wheel designs entrance to again – in contrast to in earlier undercover agent pictures. This means the RS6 may just function wider tracks along with a staggered footprint, the place the S6 might retain the similar wheel measurement all-around.  

Muscular rear haunches encase wheels that seem to be dressed in Michelin rubber, alternatively this doesn’t imply the general product will proceed to put on the ones tyres. 

An aggressively styled rear bumper whole with a pronounced rear diffuser completes the rear fascia. 

If it is a prototype for the impending Audi RS6 e-tron, it is going to be the primary time an RS6 has been to be had in a non-wagon frame form for over 10 years. An RS6 e-tron wagon is anticipated to release after the RS6 e-tron sedan. 

In contrast to the BMW M5 and Mercedes-AMG E63, the RS6 has been wagon-only for the reason that second-generation style went out of manufacturing in 2011.

The core A6 e-tron vary, together with the Avant wagon, will release in 2024 in step with a document from Autocar.

It’s anticipated the Audi RS6 e-tron will probably be to be had in each liftback and Avant wagon frame kinds, just like the common A6 e-tron.

The electrical sedan and wagon vary will arrive in a while after the Q6 e-tron crossover, with which it is going to proportion the brand new Top rate Platform Electrical co-developed through Audi and Porsche. PPE additionally underpins the impending Porsche Macan EV.

The use of the Porsche Macan EV as a information, the RS6 e-tron may just produce as much as 450kW of energy and 1000Nm of torque.

For reference, the present Audi RS6 pumps out 441kW and 800Nm from its twin-turbocharged 4.0-litre V8 engine, whilst the RS e-tron GT produces 440kW of energy and 830Nm of torque from its dual-motor all-wheel force powertrain. That is just right for a 0-100km/h dash time of three.3 seconds.

The core A6 e-tron vary will probably be presented with a selection of single-motor rear-wheel force and dual-motor all-wheel force powertrains.

The concept that sedan used a 100kWh lithium-ion battery with a claimed vary of 700km at the stricter WLTP usual, 800V generation, and 270kW of charging capability.

The Avant idea extensively utilized a 100kWh battery, in conjunction with a dual-motor AWD powertrain with 350kW of energy and 800Nm of torque.

Audi is anticipated to transition extra of its S- and RS-branded efficiency cars to electrical powertrains because it plans to roll out no less than 20 electrical cars (EVs) through 2025 and release its ultimate new internal-combustion engine car (ICE) through the similar yr.

The emblem has dedicated to being all-electric through 2033 in each and every marketplace apart from China, with the Eu Union locking in new rules that may ban the sale of petrol and diesel automobiles, SUVs, and light-weight industrial cars from 2035.

MORE: The whole thing Audi RS6
MORE: Audi RS6 evaluate