Audi will announce its second-generation R8 supercar at the Geneva Motor Show next week (we'll be there!), which will be available in a couple flavors of V10 engine producing anywhere from 540 to 610 horsepower. By all appearances, it's going to be a beautiful machine — the first R8 certainly was.
The most interesting thing about it, though, is that there will be an e-tron model (Audi's parlance for all-electric) that will only be built by hand "upon request." The new R8 e-tron can zip from 0 to 62 mph in 3.9 seconds — slower than the high-performance V10 model and Tesla's Model S P85D at 3.2 seconds, but still impressive. The car features a T-shaped battery that stores some 92 kWh, far greater than the 49 kWh of the last R8 e-tron and...
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