That was a nice video. I'd still wait at least 2 years, this technology is way too new in the German market.

 

I agree there is a lot of technology there.

Difficult to get excited without being able to compare that complexity with knowledge on price, delivery, real fuel consumption and road test reviews. Here is a first road test link by Graeme Fletcher, but it suggests a launch at the END of 2012!

Crossover ups the green game

It is also interesting that the new Sonata hybrid uses lithium polymer array batteries which, according to them do not require cooling, which the Q5 Hybrid does (part of the complexity) because it is uses lithium ion batteries.

 

In search for news, the web can produce some interesting insights....

2012 Audi Q5 2.0T Quattro Hybrid

The companion says it's the sportiest crossbred SUV deed, and we're having a insensitive instance finding break in that verify. It's also Audi's low production object to unified both gas and galvanic locomote, the once a 2.0-liter TFSI four-cylinder, the latter a 44-hp machine motorial sandwiched between the engine and the eight-speed automatonlike sending. Sorbed product is 241 hp and 354 lb-ft of force, directed to all four wheels. A 72-cell 1.3-kWh lithium-ion bombardment restorative is positioned low the concern structure, and it takes a smallest sound on the elevate shipment atlantic.

Factual sportiness isn't in the book, tho'; it's in the dynamical. That's where the Q5 hybrid rattling impresses. Anyone can apprize 354 lb-ft of twist-which is over 100 lb-ft much than its miss model's 3.2-liter FSI V-6 can draft. The 0-to-60-mph run should know nearly 6.8 seconds, honourable threesome tenths down the 3.2's 6.5-second moment. Steering is weighty and specific, with much feedback than we'd dared prospect for, and the brake are among the primo we've sampled in any crossbreed.

Posted by Just Germany Cars at 1:17 AM

 

The added benefit of hybrid propulsion-no spare tire needed!

 

"It's in the dynamical..." Ha, ha. That's great.

 

Wonderful..... Hope I can get it next summer.....

 

These are interesting shots as they show a Q5 hybrid with Ontario plates.

They come from this site in Europe:
Fotogalerie: Audi Q5 Hybrid - Auto bei Motorsport-Total.com

With all the hype, but no specifics on price, mileage, or delivery, it seems difficult to predict what is really planned.
Note the vehicle does not have the hybrid wheels..

 

If the audi.ca website is exact, the interest rate went up 0.5% in 2011.

 

According to this article, it does not look like North American delivery of the Q5 Hybrid will be for quite some time:

Automotive News Europe -- January 22, 2011 12:07

Audi plans to roll out gasoline-electric hybrid models in the next 18 months, but CEO Rupert Stadler is cautious about pure electric vehicles.

"We will start with the launch of a Q5 hybrid in Europe this spring, the A6 hybrid follows at the end of the year and an A8 hybrid in 2012," Stadler told Automotive News Europe. The hybrids will be launched in the United States and China within two years of their European launch.

http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dl...#ixzz1BmarylhP

 

From when I ordered in August to today, the interest rate on a Q5 actually went down 0.4%... according to the audi.ca website.

I assume all vehicles are different.