Audi 2025 RS e-tron GT Performance
The Audi 2025 RS e-tron GT Performance builds on the dynamic credentials of the 2024 model and goes a step further to deliver more power and more range.
The design aspects of the 2025 e-tron GT have been revised to help further distinguish the RS model, including unique new front and rear fascias, new wheel designs, the new B-pillar naming strategy, and four new exterior colors. The interior features a new steering wheel integrating satellite control buttons including push-to-pass (boost mode) for the performance model, along with an all-new available glass roof with transparency control. This unique structure is embedded with a liquid crystal film that permits seamless adjustability of nine individual segments, from slightly tinted to fully frosted using controls in the MMI display.
For model year Audi 2025 RS e-tron GT Performance, the new entry to the e-tron GT family – the S e-tron GT – extends the performance envelope of the previous top-spec 2024 RS e-tron GT. Horsepower for the S e-tron GT grows to 670, compared to 523 for the 2024 e-tron GT and 637 for the 2024 RS e-tron GT. The new S e-tron GT, thanks to a power increase, accelerates to 60 mph in just 3.3 seconds with launch control, 0.6 seconds quicker than the previous 2024 e-tron GT.
The increased copper density of the special hairpin winding in the electric motors’ stator maximizes current conduction, while the rotor in the rear motor is more compact and lighter. Overall, Audi has reduced the rear-axle electric motor’s weight by 22 pounds (10 kg). In addition, both electric motors have power reserves for dynamic driving situations. Launch Control can briefly use resources from the battery pack and electric motors for an output up to 912 horsepower. Moreover, the front motor features modified power electronics with a revised pulse inverter, enabling higher discharge currents up to 600 amps – 300 amps more than the Audi S e-tron GT. The rear motor also operates at 600 amps.
One of the key development goals for the RS performance model was to achieve high efficiency across all load ranges and repeatable output availability, increasing the reproducibility of its superior capabilities. Adapted thermal management and intelligent interconnection of the four coolant circuits play a vital role – especially in RS performance mode, which is an exclusive feature of the top model.
When increased output is used on the RS e-tron GT performance, the thermal management system switches on the adaptive cooling circuit to ensure the battery pack is sufficiently cooled. The adaptive cooling circuit conditions the interior while simultaneously and actively lowering the temperature in the coolant circuits of the battery pack and two electric motors. Cooling of the electric motors, interior air conditioning, and conditioning of the battery pack can now be controlled largely independently of each other. Audi made significant changes to the system’s pumps and valves to optimize thermal management performance.
Ride and handling performance for the e-tron GT has been improved thanks to a new air suspension that replaces the previous 3-chamber/1-valve system with a new 2-chamber/2-valve setup, affording distinct advantages in terms of driving dynamics without compromising comfort. Available is a new active suspension which can actively manage body movements, helping keep the chassis level during acceleration and braking, reduce pitch and roll movements from uneven pavement, raise the vehicle upon ingress to ease entry, and actively lean the e-tron GT into corners, improving steering precision and increasing control during dynamic driving. When combined with all wheel steering, a new, more direct steering ratio of 14.3:1 is also available.
All e-tron GT models are being built at the Böllinger Höfe Audi Sport GmbH production facility, part of Audi’s Neckarsulm site. Approximately 500 employees received advanced comprehensive training for the new e-tron GT model family, including mounting of the innovative active suspension, and the so-called “marriage” of the assembled body and the battery, electric motors, and suspension. These major technological building blocks are placed on a workpiece carrier that runs on a roller conveyor and can be positioned under the body with millimeter precision. Using intelligent, self-positioning tools, employees bolt the battery and drive components to the body at 74 different points.
