New Audi E-tron heading for Shanghai looks like the Audi take on the Jaguar i-Pace

Audi is teasing a new electric e-tron model ahead of its Shanghai Motor Show debut with design sketches showing a high-riding electric coupe.

Despite any real advance in battery technology to make electric cars proper competition for ICE cars, car makers are diving headlong in to new EVs as diesel starts to lose its glow as a ‘Green’ way to drive.

Step forward yet another Audi e-tron electric concept – heading for a debut at the Shanghai Motor Show.

Audi are teasing this new e-tron on social media in Germany, but all we really have is design sketches and an e-tron badge on the car to go on.

But from what we can see, this new electric Audi looks like a German take on the Jaguar i-Pace, a car that’s got a coupe roofline but isn’t quite a hatchback and not quite an SUV. 

Audi seem to be focussing not just on the high-riding coupe styling and electric powertrain, but also on the lighting, with interesting looking lights and illuminated four rings.

A reasonable guess is that this new e-tron will come with the same EV setup as the car we thought was going to be the new Audi Q6 (but apparently isn’t), which will mean a trio of motors delivering 496bhp, a 0-62mph of 4.6 seconds and a range of up to 31 miles. All of which sounds rather similar to the Jaguar i-Pace, with similar performance and range but more power.

All will be revealed at the Shanghai Motor Show, but it seems likely we’ll learn more before then.