If you want to get a new Audi EV in the States, I'm afraid it might soon be too late.
About a month or so ago following the launch of Audi's new e-tron models (Q4, Q6, A6, etc), so far as I've seen, all my Houston-area Audi dealers had tons of these cars in all trims in stock. Tonight I saw this comment from another article in this subreddit claiming that US dealers have stopped selling EVs and won't even take EVs as trade-ins. I decided to check EV inventory at my local Houston Audi dealers to see if that's the case with Audi as well. I learned that at least one of those dealers has now stopped selling all Audi e-tron models altogether, with none even listed as 'in transit'. If you click "show all models", you can see that all e-tron models are grayed out.
Other Audi dealers are also running very short on new EV inventory. The other Houston-area dealer has a few EV's in transit 'from port', but none in transit 'from factory', which tells me either dealers have stopped importing or Audi has stopped exporting. In Dallas there are about 10 Q6's and A6's left, but again none at all "in transit" as there normally would be. I checked whether this was Texas-specific and it's not: An Audi dealer in San Fransisco, CA has only four total EV's left (1 A6 and 3 S6's, against 170 gas cars), again with none in transit anytime soon.
On the contrary, there is no shortage of Audi's gas powered cars in any of their US-area dealerships, so I suspect this has less to do with US import fees and more to do with declining interest in EVs with the phasing out of the EV tax credit. I get the sinking feeling that it's only a matter of time until there are no more new Audi EV's left to buy for the American market – it appears that they're just emptying what little stock they have left now. I sure hope this isn't permanent, because I was looking forward to getting another Audi EV in the next year or so – but I suppose may have to move to Europe in order to do so. đŸ˜…
by redeemer404
