The Audi Q6 e-tron prototype hosts a whole lot of new applied sciences. The German automaker calls it “the start of the most important mannequin initiative in Audi’s historical past.” A midsize all-electric SUV, the Q6 e-tron is the primary automobile to trip on the model’s new Premium Platform Electrical (PPE), developed with company sibling Porsche.

Audi says the brand new electrical automobile (EV) will “redefine the trade’s benchmarks when it comes to efficiency, vary, and charging.”

None of that’s notably distinctive. Automakers routinely boast in regards to the enhancements they’re making in EV vary and charging.

What’s distinctive in regards to the Q6 e-tron are its tail lights. They’ve a vocabulary all their very own.

Audi explains “the second technology digital OLED back lights” can “talk with different highway customers by displaying data.”

The lights are made up of six panels, every containing 360 segments.

By lighting some segments and never others, “the digital OLED back lights can particularly talk with the fast setting.”

The lights, Audi says, may warn different drivers of “accidents and breakdowns by displaying a particular static rear mild signature with built-in warning symbols.”

Many vehicles available on the market in 2023 use exterior sensors to energy an exit warning that alerts them to not open a door when a automobile or bicycle is approaching. Audi says it might take that concept additional, utilizing the back lights to “warn cyclists or drivers approaching from behind” {that a} door is about to open.

If Audi’s concept catches on, different automakers are already able to undertake it.

New mild signatures are a pattern in automobile design this 12 months. Some Hyundai fashions, just like the Ioniq 5 and Ioniq 6, use a pixelated lighting system that might perform equally. The newest Lincoln Navigator can play a greeting animation in its lights as its driver approaches.