Audi A2 e-tron

The Audi A2 e-tron had its world premiere in Paris on September 7, 2026, presented by Audi CEO Gernot Döllner as the brand’s new electric entry point. It revives a nameplate that stood for efficient packaging and low consumption 26 years ago, and applies the same idea to a modern battery-electric compact car.

Orders open on September 10, 2026, with German prices starting at €38,200 and Norwegian prices from NOK 359,900. The first cars reach customers in December 2026. Production runs at Audi’s main plant in Ingolstadt, Germany, on roughly 110,000 square meters of converted floor space that reuses more than 1,200 existing installations and around 250 repurposed robots.

Why it matters

Audi built the A2 e-tron around a single leading principle: efficiency. Döllner framed it as a deliberate break with the notion that premium simply means more power, more size and more resources. The result is the most efficient Audi ever built — a headline figure of 12.8 kWh/100 km including charging losses for the 140 kW version with the efficiency package — and a drag coefficient of 0.24, the best value in Audi’s compact segment and a match for the e-tron GT.

That efficiency is what makes the range figures possible. The 170 kW version with the 84 kWh battery covers up to 646 km WLTP, a number normally reserved for much larger and far more expensive electric cars.

Launch line-up at a glance

Every version is rear-wheel drive, and all are rated Energy Efficiency Class A.

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Dimensions

A long wheelbase inside a 4.3-meter body is what makes the cabin feel a class larger than the footprint suggests — the same trick the original A2 pulled in 1999.

Design

The exterior reinterprets the original A2’s monovolume silhouette at a noticeably larger scale: a rounded nose, a long flowing roof, short overhangs and a sharply cut tail with a split rear window. Almost every surface is aerodynamically motivated, from active cooling-air shutters and air curtains to gap reducers built into the wheel-arch trim, a largely enclosed underbody and flush electric door releases with haptic sensors.

Two exterior lines are offered: a restrained base treatment and a sportier S line with distinctive bumpers and black design elements. Six paint colors are available at launch, including the new Horizon blue, Arrow gray and Pistachio green.

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Interior

Inside, the defining element is Softwrap — a soft, fabric-covered surface that runs from the instrument panel across the doors and into the rear. The standard MMI panoramic display pairs an 11.9-inch Audi virtual cockpit plus with a 12.8-inch curved MMI touch display, and an augmented-reality head-up display is optional.

Audi is the first premium manufacturer to fit the patented Fidlock magnetic fastening system as standard, with up to three adapter points on the center console and three more in the luggage compartment for cupholders, bags and charging-cable pouches. An optional panoramic glass roof adds 1.6 square meters of glazing with a UV-blocking coating.

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Drivetrain and charging

The A2 e-tron uses the MEB+ platform with a rear-mounted permanently excited synchronous motor. The APP350 serves the 125, 140 and 170 kW versions; the 240 kW flagship uses the more powerful APP550. Audi’s revised drive unit runs up to 10% more efficiently than the previous generation thanks to silicon-carbide power electronics, thinner 0.2 mm laminations, a delta-connected stator winding, low-friction transmission oil and a long 10.2:1 reduction ratio.

The two LFP packs use a cell-to-pack construction that bonds prismatic cells directly into the housing, and their chemistry tolerates daily charging to 100% without the limit usually recommended for nickel-based cells. The 84 kWh NMC pack is modular and charges at up to 183 kW. Bidirectional charging is supported through Vehicle-to-Load, and through Vehicle-to-Home in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

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Technology

Emergency brake assist, swerve assist, attention assist, adaptive cruise control, park assist plus and a reversing camera are standard on every A2 e-tron. Options extend to adaptive cruise assist plus with emergency assist, front cross-traffic assist, a 3D surround-view system, remote-controlled park assist plus, trained parking for up to five learned maneuvers, and reverse assist that retraces roughly 50 meters.

Infotainment runs Audi’s current software with an AI-backed Audi assistant, the e-tron route planner with predictive charge scheduling, and Audi connected work for Outlook and Teams.

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What still isn’t known

• Market-by-market pricing and equipment outside Germany and Norway
• Full option and package pricing
• Independent real-world range and charging-curve measurements

Sources

• Audi: A2 e-tron — Rethinking efficiency
• Audi CEO Gernot Döllner on the A2 e-tron
• Audi: A2 e-tron sets new efficiency benchmark at Audi
• Audi Norge / NTB: 645 kilometers rekkevidde — her er nye Audi A2 e-tron
• electrive: Audi returns to efficiency for its A2 e-tron premiere