The A2 e-tron is Audi’s entry point into electric cars, a compact five-door on Volkswagen Group’s MEB architecture with its world premiere set for autumn 2026. Audi revived a name last used in 2005, on a car that has nothing structurally in common with it: the first A2 was an aluminium space frame under 3.83 metres long, this one is a steel-bodied electric hatchback built on the same toolkit as the Volkswagen ID. Polo and the Cupra Raval. Audi has not stated which iteration of MEB it uses.
Four power levels, one published battery. Audi lists 125, 140, 170 and 240 kW on its own site, all front-wheel drive, and says every version is available from the premiere rather than phased in. The 240 kW car works out at 322 hp. Only one battery has been specified: a liquid-cooled lithium iron phosphate pack of 61 kWh gross and 58 kWh net, in a cell-to-pack construction, on the 140 kW version with the efficiency package. Audi quotes up to 649 km WLTP across the range, and at the consumption it has published that figure needs a pack in the low 80s, so at least one larger battery exists that Audi has not yet described.
Efficiency is the engineering claim. The 140 kW efficiency-package car is rated at a preliminary 12.8 kWh/100 km on the WLTP cycle, which Audi says makes it the most efficient car it has built. Drag coefficient is 0.24. The aerodynamic work is worth about 0.9 kWh/100 km on its own and includes air curtains, gap covers and an active cooling intake that stays shut in normal driving. Charging efficiency at a wallbox is quoted at 89.6%, and the car supports vehicle-to-load and vehicle-to-home, so it can run household appliances or feed a home circuit.
Price and timing. Audi’s German price list opens at €38,200 (about $41,600). Production starts at the Ingolstadt main plant in autumn 2026, alongside the A3, Q6 e-tron and A6 e-tron, and order books open at the premiere. Dimensions, boot volume, charging power and the range of each individual power level have not been published, and the photographs Audi has released so far are of camouflaged prototypes.
