Audi has recently announced plans to present the Sport quattro laserlight concept at the Consumer Electronics Show from January 6 to 10 in Las Vegas.
It is an updated version of the Sport quattro concept and has matrix LED headlights with laser light technology. Two low-profile trapezoidal elements are visible within the headlights - the outer one generates the low beam light using matrix LEDs and an aperture mask, while the inner element produces laser light for high-beam functionality.
According to the German carmaker, the powerful laser diodes are significantly smaller than LED diodes, they are only a few microns in diameter. Illuminating the road for a distance of nearly 500 meters, the laser high-beam lights have approximately twice the lighting range and three times the luminosity of LED high-beam lights.
The interior focuses very much on the driver. Even the multifunction sport steering wheel points the way towards future sporty production solutions. It has two buttons which the driver can use to control the hybrid drive (a red start-stop button and a button for the Audi drive select vehicle handling system) and a "View" button to control the Audi virtual cockpit. All key information is shown on the large Audi TFT display in three-dimensional graphics which is powered by a cutting-edge Tegra 30 processor from Nvidia.
Motivation is provided by a twin-turbo 4.0-liter V8 engine and a disc-shaped electric motor. This setup allows the plug-in hybrid powertrain to offer 700 hp and 800 Nm of torque. The car can accelerate from 0-100 km/h in 3.7 seconds and hit a top speed of 305 km/h. More importantly, it returns 2.5 L/100km (94.1 US mpg or 113 mpg UK) and can travel up to 50 km on electricity alone.
