This one was probably a personal record. Now, I don’t actually keep a spreadsheet of recorded acceleration runs I’ve done over the years, but I can count on one hand how many of those cars had published 0-100 km/h acceleration times under three seconds. The 2025 Audi RS E-tron GT is officially documented as hitting 100 km/h in 2.
5 seconds. We had the privilege of taking the RS E-tron GT out onto the front straight of Speed Vegas and launching it with abandon a few times and the full force of those acceleration Gs was literally dizzying, paired with feeling crushed into the seats as we screamed past 100 km/h and eclipsed 100 mph (160 km/h) well before hitting the first braking zone. It was thrilling and disorienting and I could have spent all day repeating the exercise over and over again.
As amazing as that acceleration is, that was not the highlight of the demonstration, nor was it necessarily the coup de grâce of this very thorough mid-cycle update. Surprisingly, a major focus of this redesign was actually comfort, which seems inconsistent with the 275-horsepower increase for the RS model, and a base model ( S E-tron GT in Canada) that has 30 more horsepower than the previous RS halo model , and 0-100 times dropping by almost a second. Another shock and awe statistic for EV nerds is that despite gaining almost 300 horsepower, Audi engineers squeezed an extra 11.
6 kWh out of the same size battery pack using CHEMISTRY while also dropping over 10 kilos (~25 pounds) of we.
