Instead of taking up space in the building for a motorroom to run the elevator, these models have motors inside the elevator shaft, mounted on the rails that the cars run on, he said.
"There's clearly room for another product and another concept between the A3 and A1, " Audi CEO Rupert Stadler told journalists on the sidelines of the 2010 Geneva Motor Show.
The test program will operate the permanent magnet propulsion motor up to full power (full torque and full load) in a test facility that simulates an actual U.S.Navy DDG-1000 engine room.