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Will the Audi PB18 ever see the light of day? Maybe

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Will the Audi PB18 ever see the light of day? Maybe | Top Gear

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Audi Formula E boss Allan McNish tells us his hopes for the e-tron concept

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Will the Audi PB18 ever see the light of day? Maybe

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Audi Formula E boss Allan McNish tells us his hopes for the e-tron concept

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Will the Audi PB18 ever see the light of day? Maybe

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Audi Formula E boss Allan McNish tells us his hopes for the e-tron concept

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Will the Audi PB18 ever see the light of day? Maybe

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Will the Audi PB18 ever see the light of day? Maybe

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Audi Formula E boss Allan McNish tells us his hopes for the e-tron concept

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Still reeling from the Audi PB18 e-tron? You should be. It represents a first for an electric car, in that it actually wants to make you – the squidgy, unpredictable mass of homosapien – feel good driving an EV.

With 753bhp, 0-62mph in two seconds flat and a central driving position, it presses many good buttons. Allan McNish, boss of Audi Sport’s Formula E team, also reckons we’ll see something a lot like this in the near future.

“Certainly the roads are converging very quickly,” he tells TopGear.com about the intersection between motorsport and road cars. “When we went into Formula E – and we’ve done it with a few different racing programmes before – it was a precursor to actually coming in with a road car.

“FSI for example, won Le Mans in 2001 and in 2002 and beyond, it’s now on every Audi road car. Laser lights, too. So yes, this PB18 is a concept at the moment, but I’ve seen this kind of thing before,” he adds. He points to the car that won Le Mans five times between 2000 and 2005.

“A lot of people forget that the R8 was a racing car first. And of course, we know what the R8 is now. There have been those crossover points, but it gives it a lot of credibility. They’re pushing hard. They want to make a statement, and that statement is in something like this.”

The opportunities afforded to electric cars, at least according to McNish, are plentiful. “You have a different floor space to play with,” he says, reaffirming that the PB18 has the potential to be a drivers' car. “Everybody’s pushing towards autonomy, the car driving you. Here, you’re in control. That communication is right back with us – it’s just got a different power source than the cars we’re normally used to.”

Don’t expect anything soon, mind. But considering the pace of development in this battleground, do expect it to be quite something indeed…

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Still reeling from the Audi PB18 e-tron? You should be. It represents a first for an electric car, in that it actually wants to make you – the squidgy, unpredictable mass of homosapien – feel good driving an EV.

With 753bhp, 0-62mph in two seconds flat and a central driving position, it presses many good buttons. Allan McNish, boss of Audi Sport’s Formula E team, also reckons we’ll see something a lot like this in the near future.

“Certainly the roads are converging very quickly,” he tells TopGear.com about the intersection between motorsport and road cars. “When we went into Formula E – and we’ve done it with a few different racing programmes before – it was a precursor to actually coming in with a road car.

“FSI for example, won Le Mans in 2001 and in 2002 and beyond, it’s now on every Audi road car. Laser lights, too. So yes, this PB18 is a concept at the moment, but I’ve seen this kind of thing before,” he adds. He points to the car that won Le Mans five times between 2000 and 2005.

“A lot of people forget that the R8 was a racing car first. And of course, we know what the R8 is now. There have been those crossover points, but it gives it a lot of credibility. They’re pushing hard. They want to make a statement, and that statement is in something like this.”

The opportunities afforded to electric cars, at least according to McNish, are plentiful. “You have a different floor space to play with,” he says, reaffirming that the PB18 has the potential to be a drivers' car. “Everybody’s pushing towards autonomy, the car driving you. Here, you’re in control. That communication is right back with us – it’s just got a different power source than the cars we’re normally used to.”

Don’t expect anything soon, mind. But considering the pace of development in this battleground, do expect it to be quite something indeed…

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Audi Formula E boss Allan McNish tells us his hopes for the e-tron concept