Audi Sport customer racing has concluded a challenging season with convincing results. The brand’s customer teams won 206 of 734 races worldwide, achieving a success rate of 28.1 percent. Two overall victories in 24-hour races in Germany and the United Arab Emirates as well as a 12-hour overall victory crown the season of the customers.
Audi FAW NEV Company, a cooperation project between Audi and long-standing partner FAW, has commenced production of all-electric Audi models. The company and its new state-of-the-art plant form a key component of the strategy Audi has adopted for the Chinese market. The new production site in Changchun is the first in China to exclusively produce fully electric Audi models based on the PPE platform, beginning with the Q6L e-tron family, followed by a market-specific version of the Audi A6 e-tron.
Lighting technology and lighting design may seem to have a lot in common at first glance but, in fact, a careful balancing act between aesthetics and functionality takes place behind the scenes. In this article, Stefan Staudacher, head of rear lighting development, and lighting designer Christoph Häußinger shine some light on how designers and developers work together to find the best solutions, despite their different requirements.
With the “Anniversary Dates 2025” booklet, Audi Tradition is showcasing the most important moments in the product and company history of Audi, which is as eventful as it is diverse. Audi historians have selected a total of 27 dates to commemorate in 2025.
Just in time for the planned restructuring of Vehicle Development in line with matrix organization principles, Audi is confirming a structural change: effective January 1, 2025, Geoffrey Bouquot will take over as head of the Technical Development division, which will be merged with his previous Innovation and Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) division.
Audi’s customer teams bid farewell to the European season of GT3 and GT4 competitions of race promoter SRO in Jeddah with overall and class victories as well as titles. With another class title in Southern Europe, a customer team from Portugal contributed an additional GT4 success to Audi Sport customer racing’s annual tally.
Audi and Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) team up to accelerate the preparation for the Formula 1 entry of the four rings in 2026. QIA, the sovereign wealth fund of the State of Qatar, has signed definitive agreements to acquire a significant minority stake in Sauber Holding AG, the future factory team of Audi.
Each person consumes five grams of microplastics per week: This was the conclusion reached by the Australian University of Newcastle in 2019. The small plastic particles, up to five millimeters in size, enter the environment through food, cosmetics and washing clothes, for example, and into our bodies via the water cycle. In order to reduce the proportion of microplastics, the city of Copenhagen uses a special microplastic filter. It is intended to capture microplastics such as tire abrasion that is washed from the street into the sewage system. The filter is based on a funding project from the TU Berlin and the Audi Environmental Foundation. A filter structure that is specially adapted to the waste typical for the area of operation will be piloted in the city of Copenhagen from November and is intended to make a contribution to clean water.
Following a class title in Belgium, the Audi R8 LMS GT2 has now also won a category in Spanish endurance racing. Two class successes for the Audi RS 3 LMS in the TCR Spain round off the touring car season. Audi Sport customer racing also delivered its last GT3 sports car built to a long-standing customer in November.