Audi e-tron Electric SUV interior REVEALED – but the e-tron’s still in camouflage

The Audi e-tron – Audi’s competition for the Jaguar I-Pace and Mercedes EQ C – has had it’s interior revealed ahead of a debut at some point in the next few months.

Audi has worked very hard to keep the e-tron SUV front and centre ahead of a debut, including having the prototype on their stand in Geneva to try and take the gloss of Jaguar’s I-Pace debut, but the debut plans have been thrown a bit off course after their CEO got arrested.

But that hasn’t stopped Audi doing a partial reveal at the Royal Danish Playhouse in Copenhagen, uncovering the e-tron’s interior, but still, keeping the exterior camouflaged.

What we see is pretty much what we’d expected – and it’s not exactly a million miles away from the interior of the Jaguar I-Pace – with a clean and simple design with screens doing the heavy lifting.

Audi has gone for ‘virtual’ mirrors, using cameras on small stalks where the door mirrors usually are, feeding an image to a 7″ display below where the quarter light would be in the dim and distant past. It’s a neat solution, and aerodynamically efficient, although there are questions about its legality in many markets.

The instrument panel is fully digital too – something Audi does very well – and the centre of the dash has an infotainment screen sitting above a second screen to control stuff like climate control, and the centre tunnel console rests on open sidewalls with integrated handrest and gear change lever ‘floating’ above.

All that’s really left is for Audi to take the camouflage off the body and reveal the e-tron in production guise.