Audi A3 e-tron

A small fleet of all-electric A3 e-tron prototypes will soon be driving across some major U.S. cities, with Audi announcing this week its latest e-tron pilot program. Audi made the announcement yesterday at the TED2012 conference in Long Beach, California, where the automaker was presenting its vision of the role transportation will play in the world’s increasingly congested urban centers. The latest program, similar to the A1 e-tron based trial currently running in Munich, Germany, is aimed at gathering data on driver behavior, electric infrastructure requirements, and a new...