Audi releases new A6 & Q6 e-tron models in the USA

The upgrades mostly contain comfort features, such as new multi-media interface design improvements, an updated steering-wheel design, featuring return of the scroll wheel, or a new ‘Power Nap Mode’, which can be activated during a charging session to create a calming environment to relax in.

Audi also introduced new design language to its displays, as well as more individual settings for the passenger seat. For example, a passenger can now watch a movie and listen in via headphones, while the driver is operating the vehicle and can listen to their own music. Audi further specified: “The driver can listen to any source in parallel via the cabin audio system, except for the app in use by the passenger.”

There were also technical upgrades, however, allowing more efficient regenerative one-pedal braking. As Audi specifies: “Up to certain deceleration levels, when this mode is selected, the vehicles can now come to a standstill without transitioning to conventional friction brakes. This makes stopping particularly smooth and even more comfortable[…] The additional kinetic energy recovered is used for energy regeneration, which can help improve efficiency and range.”

Audi’s driver assistance programme is also developing, offering improved parking adn maneuvering functions, which Audi now claims can handle the final 50 metres to any parking spot, “making this maneuver less stressful, particularly on narrow streets.” This depends on the vehicle storing the process in its memory: “The system can save five different parking maneuvers, each more than 600 feet (200 meters) long, and then perform them autonomously on private property.”

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