We already told about a courageous step of company Audi to start in the limited manufacture (1000 copies) the concept car e-tron — an electromobile on the basis of model R8 with four electric motors total capacity of 313 horsepowers at an improbable twisting moment in 4500 Nanometers. The first serial copies according to plan should appear in 2012.

And here the next acknowledgement of gravity of intentions of the German company: quite serial in appearance compartment Audi R8, at the wheel which there was Frank Biela — the fivefold winner of the 24-sentry of a marathon in line-up Audi — has almost silently screwed a circle on the well-known ring of Sarte before thousand fans present there.

Representatives of "four rings» have noticed in the press release that despite presence lithium-ionic of batteries onboard, the prototype has kept развесовку on axes in a proportion 42:58 (and here about the equipped weight again have held back), and to charge from the usual household socket e-tron it is necessary no more than 8 hours. From special charging station with pressure of 420 volt gymnastics time is reduced to two and a half hours. Interestingly, how many circles on almost 14-kilometre ring of Sarte the Franc on a total charge of the prototype could pass?