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In this year Munich, Audi brought its luxury flagship sedan A8 successor, a highly automatic driving function and using pure electricity Futureman concept car grandsphere in power system.
After recently launched a Skysphere concept car with similar prospects, Audi describes GrandSphere as a “private plane used for highways”, and with Skysphere and the upcoming URBANSPHERE concept car. It is mainly designed around the L4-level automatic driving function.
Audi Skysphere Concept Car 
Audi said this concept The car is the most closest to future mass production vehicles in the Sphere trilog.
This luxury flagship model built by the Altamester Plan will replace A8 as a new top car of the Audi sedan series, the car production version will be unveiled in 2024, and officially official in 2025 enter the market.
In order to maintain a consistent way of the automatic driving design, the design of GrandSphere “is” inside “, which can provide a locked cabin environment similar to the lounge style when driving.
The steering wheel, the throttle and the brake pedal will be retracted into the separator
Suicide pair The cockpit space
can be expanded to the steering wheel, the throttle and the brake pedal will be retracted to the separator. The vehicle does not have a B column, and the suicide-opening can maximally expand the cockpit space and have a better air flow effect. 
When passengers enter the cabin, there will be “separate welcome to display effects and environmental lights”, air conditioning control and seat positions will be automatically adjusted according to their preferences after sitting down.
GRANDsphere infotainment system can be programmed to play different content prior to a portable device carried by a passenger being viewed upon entering a vehicle.
For example, the driver’s side of the screen displays all Mo Kanwan news on the front of his car, and the passenger side of the screen will play its Mo Kanwan video and the like.
the front seats are designed to maximize the comfort of
Audi said, “first class treatment has now been moved to the front of the car,” because now control the car is no longer a “driver” exclusive.
Thus, the front seat is designed to maximize the comfort of the folding angle can support a maximum of 60 degrees. 
Of course, spacious interior also allows almost the same luxurious disposed in the rear, the passenger sitting on the sofa as the wide rear seat.
disposed between the front seats with two
The cooling glass cup holder
car provided a kind of luxury-oriented concept, if necessary, you will breathe in the car through an air filter, temperature control, and the fresh air scented. 
Each passenger has a set of “other passengers to hear,” the speaker. Further provided between the front seats and cooling cup holder two glass bottles with a special design.
relatively unusual is that upon entering the cockpit Grandsphere no visible screen, or a variety of physical control instrument, designers have been trying to achieve complete digitization.
At the time to start the car, the entire interior of the projector displays images and data associated therewith to each passenger, while the front sensor bar below the main display to switch instantly between tabs, the driver can use the rotary MMI touch buttons to navigate the menu.
when the vehicle is fully automatic driving mode, the occupants of eye movements and gestures can also control these functions, and because Grandsphere understand the user’s preferences, you can “provide personal advice” for each user .
Flow lines can achieve optimum aerodynamic efficiency
GrandSphere concept car is more like a four-door GT
GrandSphere length 5350mm, Wide 2000mm, the wheelbase is 3190mm, which is much larger than the A8 long width. 
But Audi emphasized that this car is more like a four-door GT, rather than traditional cars, and has a round slight profile from the wind tunnel test.
Therefore, although the vehicle is built by a pure electric platform, it still has a long front cap, which uses streamlined design to achieve optimum aerodynamics efficiency.
There is currently unclear how high the concept between the concept car and the quantity version is, but it can be sure that its strange 23-inch rim of the shape is not seen in the mass production vehicle. . 
Audi Q6E-TRON camouflage
GrandSphere is based on the PPE platform developed by Audi and Porsche, the platform is still the new Audi Q6E-TRON in the next year. And Porsche Macan Electric Edition support platform.
This concept truck is equipped with a dual motor four-drive power system that produces 530kW output power and 960 nm integrated torque.
The vehicle can complete the acceleration from still 100km / h within 4 seconds, but in order to save energy, Audi is limited to the highest speed.
For the whole vehicle to provide energy is a 120KWH battery pack, which supports up to 270 kW fast charge and provides more than 750 kilometers of endless mileage. .
Audi admitted that “in a new generation of cars, power systems and handling are no longer the highest standards of their design.”
However, when asked if the automatic driving car would attract people who are keen on driving, the strategic person in charge PhilippGundert said: “We value the passengers and drivers to choose freely. This car focused on automatic driving, but Of course, we still hopeKeep this feeling and close contact.
He emphasized the “monetary body feeling” provided by the steering wheel and the seat layout, and said that the passengers can decide to be “enjoy driving fun” or let the car yourself.
GrandSphere has a rear wheel steering, adaptive damping system and an active air suspension, all of which are for some dynamic flexibility, although this car is large.
Although GrandSphere Focus on high-end technology and provide a luxury experience, but its technology will gradually extend into a small car of the Audi New Times product lineup, which may be applied to shared cars and car service products.
Gundert said: “We Will be clear what is possible, what we want and our customers, and our ideas for future, then bring it to small cars, of course, will also bring future solutions that have cars. We can also see that our target customers do not necessarily mean that they have a car. 
URBANSPHERE concept car notice
Audi’s third paragraph is also the last Sphere concept car, and the Urbansphere of SUV model has also released a recently. The trailer will appear before July next year.
Whether the car will learn from some of the 2019 introduced AI: ME concept car design elements, or some new styles, we can only wait until It will come out again next year. [IDailycar]