To say the e-Tron car is insane is like saying Kayne West has no class.

WIRED: Audi says there’s still a lot of work to be done before EVs are ready for mass-market production. Until then, we’re dreaming of cars like the e-Tron.
Minimizing weight is the name of the game when building an EV because it extends range. The e-Tron weighs 3,527 pounds. That’s just 253 pounds more than the new Ferrari 458 Italia. Audi made extensive use of aluminum and carbon fiber in building the car — which is slightly smaller in every dimension than the R8 — and made the doors, roof and other body panels of fiber-reinforced plastic. Audi says the car has a 42:58 weight distribution.

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clipped from www.wired.com Audi confirmed the worst-kept secret at the Frankfurt auto show when it unveiled the e-Tron, an electric concept car with four motors, grin-inducing acceleration and torque like an Abrams tank. The German automaker set out to prove electric cars can rival the best sports cars, so it gave the all-wheel-drive two-seater 230 kilowatts (313 horsepower) and a staggering 3,319 pound-feet of torque. That’s not a typo. We’ll pause for a moment to let you absorb that. To put that number in perspective, the Tesla Roadster, arguably the benchmark for production electric sports cars, produces 276 foot-pounds. The Dodge Viper gets 600 out of its huge V10. The Bugatti Veyron puts down 922. And the M1 Abrams tank produces 2,750 (at 3,000 RPM). At this point the e-Tron is just a concept — and almost certainly a shot across the bow of Mercedes-Benz and its electric Gullwing.