FRANKFURT MOTOR SHOW: Audi teases wild EV off-roader

A wicked Audi off-road electric concept car will make its debut at the Frankfurt motor show early next month.

Audi is being coy about the concept, which has been tentatively named AI:TRAIL quattro, revealing only this side teaser image of the monster machine so far.

The wild-looking off-roader is another in a rich recent vein of “visionary” Audi electric concept vehicle concepts, which almost certainly means it isn’t set for production.

It follows the Audi Aicon and Elaine from 2017, plus the e-tron Vision, the wild PB e-tron sports car and the AI:ME from the Shanghai motor show this year.

It won’t be the first off-road EV concept to come out of the Volkswagen Group, either, with Porsche showing its Mission E Cross Turismo at Geneva last year and Volkswagen showing its I.D. Buggy at Geneva this year.

Audi’s EV push has started slowly in production, though, with the e-tron based around its oldest EV engineering.

The only current production electric Audi is based around what’s called the C-BEV architecture, though Audi will switch to the Porsche-engineered J1 platform and battery systems for the e-tron GT next year.