Audi Q8 SUV will be followed by the Q4 and THREE new electric Audi e-trons

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The new Audi Q8 SUV will be followed by a smaller sibling – the Audi Q4 – and Audi will be launching three new e-tron electric cars in the next three years.

We may only have seen a concept of the Audi Q8 – a new range-topping SUV from Audi – but we know it’s going in to production, without much change from the concept, and Audi have said its smaller sibling, the new Audi Q4, is also on the way in 2019.

Today, Audi reiterated that the two new SUVs will expand their SUV range, but they’ve revealed far more about their future direction, after a briefing to shareholders at its annual meeting in Neckarsulm, Germany.

This year (2017) will see the renewal of the Audi A8 and A7, with the flagship A8 arriving in just over a month at the Audi Summit in Barcelona on 11 July.

But a big bit of Audi’s future will revolve around electrification of their cars, with the aim that, by 2025, one third of Audi’s cars will be either BEVs or hybrids, utilising architecture which is being developed with Porsche for both companies to utilise.

As this plan progresses, Audi plan to deliver three new BEVs (Battery Electric Vehicles) by 2020, and at least one new electrified car a year in the years following, with those cars offering a BEV or Hybrid take on core models.

Audi is also taking the lead in the VW Group in relations to the development of Autonomous Technology, as well as developing a wide range of online services.

Audi’s Rupert Stadler, Audi AG Chairman, said:

We are rejuvenating our model portfolio enormously and will renew five existing core model series by mid-2018.

In addition, we will expand our successful Q family by 2019 with two new concepts – the Audi Q8 and the Audi Q4 – and we will launch our battery-electric e-tron models.

Funny how diesel seems to be disappearing from Audi’s future.