Audi's unions demand electric model for main German plant

Audi will next year start building its first mass-produced electric model, the e-tron quattro sport-utility vehicle.

BERLIN: Labour leaders at Volkswagen's luxury Audi brand have asked top management to assign production of an all-electric model to the carmaker's main plant in Germany, concerned they might lose out as electric cars gain in importance.

Audi will next year start building its first mass-produced electric model, the e-tron quattro sport-utility vehicle, at a plant in Brussels, together with batteries that will also be used in other VW group electric vehicles (EVs).