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On May 17th, the Audi Q5 e-tron, a brand new model owned by SAIC Audi, officially announced its selling price. The new car is located in a luxurious medium and large pure electric SUV, with a total of five models, with a price range of 37.65-479500 yuan. On February 18 this year, SAIC Audi announced that the pre-price of the model was 39.55-510000 yuan, which led to a reduction in the price of the new car after its official launch. In this regard, SAIC Audi marketing general manager Jia Ming dysprosium said: SAIC Audi to be the most beautiful retrograde, lack of chips and rising raw material costs of unfavorable factors, do not transmit, do not pass on to consumers.

The Audi Q5 e-tron, built on the Volkswagen MEB platform, is SAIC Audi's second production car and SAIC Audi's first all-electric SUV. In terms of appearance, the new car continues the family design of the Audi brand. In the front part, the new car uses a closed grille "big mouth" design, with a sharp shape of the front LED matrix headlights, the overall recognition is very high. The new car will be available in two appearance kits and will have monochrome and bicolor body color options, officially known as brocade suit and machine armor set. The side of the body is very slender, the rear part of the car, the new car uses the popular through-type LED taillight group, at the same time, the lower enclosure is also decorated with diffuser, the overall hierarchical sense is clear. In terms of body size, the length, width and height of the new car are 4786/1860/1675mm, wheelbase is 2965mm, positioning luxury medium and large pure electric SUV.

In the interior part, the new car is equipped with a 10.25-inch full liquid crystal meter and an 11.6-inch touch central control screen. in addition, the new car is equipped with sports seat, seat heating, ventilation, electric adjustment and electric waist support. In terms of seat layout, the new car uses 6-seat and 7-seat options, including 7-seat layout for 40 e-tron and 6-seat layout for 50 e-tron models.

In terms of power, the new car will launch two power forms, 40 e-tron and 50 e-tron quattro respectively, the former using a single motor layout with a comprehensive maximum power of 204hp and a peak torque of 310Nm, and the latter a dual-motor layout with a combined maximum power of 306hp and a peak torque of 460Nm, with CLTC mileage of 560km and 520km respectively.

As the first pure electric SUV model of SAIC Audi, the new car will compete with BMW iX3 (39.99-439900 yuan) and Mercedes-Benz EQC (49.98-579800 yuan). As a comparison, BMW iX3 and Mercedes-Benz EQC are oil-to-electric models, while Audi Q5 e-tron is an all-electric SUV model built on MEB platform, and the starting price is very cheap, so the new car may have more advantages, of course. At present, it is only speculation that the market performance of the new car after the launch has yet to be verified by the market.

At present, there are two models on sale in SAIC Audi, namely Audi A7L and Audi Q5 e-tron. Among them, Audi A7L is the first model under SAIC Audi, with a price of 45.97-777700 yuan. The car has a total of 2.0T (45TFSI) and 3.0T (55TFSI) power models. 2.0T is equipped with 2.0T turbocharged four-cylinder engine, the maximum power is 180kw (245hp), and the peak torque is 370N ·m. Match 7-speed wet double clutch gearbox 3.0T is equipped with 3.0T V6 engine, maximum 250kw (340hp), peak torque of 500N ·m, matching 7-speed wet double clutch transmission, all standard Quatro four-wheel drive system. According to the plan, in the second half of this year, SAIC Audi will also launch the Audi Q6 model, which is positioned as a medium-and large-scale luxury SUV, which is SAIC Audi's third production car and SAIC Audi's first fuel SUV, which appeared on the declaration catalogue on March 14 and is expected to sell for about 550000 yuan.

In terms of sales volume, according to SAIC Audi's annual sales target of 40, 000 vehicles, it needs to achieve the average monthly sales target of 3000 vehicles. According to relevant statistics, SAIC Audi A7L sold 316 vehicles in January, 258 in February, 256 in March and 123 in April, and the cumulative sales from January to April this year was only 953, which is a big gap from its annual sales target of 40, 000. However, as for the 2022 sales target, Jia Mingdysi does not think it is important. "in 2022, the sales target is not the most important, and SAIC Audi hopes to continue to build and consolidate its brand image and positioning," he said.

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