Audi All Set For Electric Game Plan

As of 2026, the brand with the four rings will only launch all-electric models onto the global market, gradually phasing out production of its ICE models by 2033. Autocar Pro News reports.

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It's clear that Ingolstadt, Germany-based Audi is focusing strongly on electro-mobility as per its Vorsprung 2030 corporate strategy plan that it had announced in 2021. The next logical step is to make it happen and Audi is now taking steps to prepare its global facilities for the production of all-electric cars.

Audi says that is building on its existing global production network and re-purposing them phase-wise. "Step by step, we are bringing all our sites into the future," says Audi Board Member for Production and Logistics Gerd Walker. "We don't want any standalone lighthouse projects on greenfield sites. Instead, we are investing in our existing plants, so they end up being just as efficient and flexible as newly built production sites or greenfield plants." According to Walker, this is sustainability in action - in economic, ecological and social aspects. "The path Audi is taking conserves resources and accelerates our transformation to a provider of sustainable premium mobility," Walker emphasises.

The Audi Board Member for Production and Logistics wants to make manufacturing flexible and resilient to ensure it will be future proof in the long term. In keeping with this aim, Audi developed its comprehensive strategy taking various perspectives into account.

The programme factors in future aspects of the production requirements and the result is that Audi has created the 360-factory to give an idea of its vision of the future. The approach places equal emphasis on cost-effectiveness, sustainability, flexibility, and attractiveness.

An ambitious roadmap on the road to e-mobility