2025 Audi Q6 e-tron Has a Screen-Rich Dash, Augmented-Reality HUD

• The 2025 Audi Q6 e-tron’s inside debuts with screens galore and an accessible head-up show that augments actuality.
• Predictably, the within of Audi’s upcoming EV SUV additionally closely options sustainable supplies.
• The Q6 e-tron boasts 19 cubic ft of cargo room behind the rear seats; that house expands to 54 cubes with the second row stowed.

Audi has revealed the within of the 2025 Q6 e-tron, the model’s first EV that can be constructed on its new Premium Platform Electrical (PPE) structure. Primarily, it is the mannequin that units the tone for Audi’s future, and that future seems to characteristic a dashboard devoted to shows, amongst different tech-centric content material.

First Look Inside

Anybody who had hoped screen-packed interiors have been merely a fad ought to in all probability put that dream to mattress. The Q6 e-tron is the most recent instance of the place new-car cabins are heading, with not one, not two, however three screens going through its occupants. The OLED gauge cluster and infotainment touchscreen measure 11.9- and 14.5-inches, respectively, and each reside below a single curved bezel that is underlined by ambient lighting. One other 10.9-inch touchscreen is devoted to the front-seat passenger, and it has a method of blocking the driving force’s view of its contents, per security laws.

With the Q6 e-tron, Audi introduces new Android-based infotainment software program, which brings what the corporate calls a “self-learning voice assistant.” Very like with Mercedes’s MBUX system, Q6 customers can summon the factitious intelligence by saying, “Hey, Audi.” The complete extent of the voice assistant’s skillset is unknown, however Audi claims it might probably do the whole lot from study a driver’s preferences and make recommendations. How lengthy will it take the AI to study that we just like the local weather set to 69 levels, the ventilated seats activated, and the heated steering wheel on? We’re to search out out.

Taking Audi’s in-car know-how additional is an optionally available head-up show with augmented actuality. When the SUV’s pace, navigation instructions, or visitors indicators are mirrored onto the windshield, their photos are tilted ahead to create the impression they’re floating in entrance of the car. Audi claims this helps scale back distractions, notably in low-visibility conditions. Nonetheless, that’ll be for particular person drivers to determine.

Ambient lighting is one other polarizing inside characteristic that is proliferating amongst new automobiles (personally, this writer loves the theatrics). The Q6 e-tron, after all, gives customizable colours, however it additionally has interactive lighting parts similar to a welcome motion and the power to inform individuals when the car is locked and unlocked. Different neat methods embrace mimicking the flip indicators and visualizing the EV’s charging ranges. Neat, proper?

Q6 Vs. Q5 Cargo Area

The 2025 Audi Q6 e-tron’s exterior dimensions are stated to be just like the gas-powered Q5 SUV. We drove a prototype within the mystical land generally known as the Faroe Islands the place that dimension comparability felt acceptable. Whereas Audi hasn’t but launched the Q6’s full inside measurements, it did reveal the EV’s cargo house. There’s 19 cubic ft behind the second row; fold these seats flat and that space grows to 54 cubes. In contrast with the Q5, the latter determine is equivalent to the max cargo capability, whereas the previous is 7 cubic ft smaller. At the least the e-tron’s entrance truck contributes a separate 2 cubes. It is attainable the distinction can also be made up with extra general passenger house within the Q6.

Giving the Q6 e-tron’s inside a more in-depth look will reveal its squared-off steering wheel, which is flat on the highest and backside and hosts a bunch of touch-sensitive controls. Whereas we respect the bodily quantity knob, we’re much less thrilled concerning the lack of actual buttons and switches elsewhere. For instance, the door panels have a plasticky panel of capacitive controls for the locks, lights, mirrors, and reminiscence seat settings. Thanks, however no thanks.

Some individuals will have the ability to look previous these particulars and others can be disenchanted. Remaining judgements might be made as soon as the Audi Q6 e-tron and the higher-performance SQ6 variant hit the streets someday subsequent 12 months.

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Eric Stafford’s vehicle habit started earlier than he may stroll, and it has fueled his ardour to write down information, opinions, and extra for Automobile and Driver since 2016. His aspiration rising up was to turn out to be a millionaire with a Jay Leno–like automobile assortment. Apparently, getting wealthy is tougher than social-media influencers make it appear, so he averted monetary success completely to turn out to be an automotive journalist and drive new automobiles for a dwelling. After incomes a journalism diploma at Central Michigan College and dealing at a every day newspaper, the years of principally burning cash on failed undertaking automobiles and lemon-flavored jalopies lastly paid off when Automobile and Driver employed him. His storage at present features a 2010 Acura RDX, a guide ’97 Chevy Camaro Z/28, and a ’90 Honda CRX Si.