Audi is undoing some of the changes it planned to make to its naming strategy in regard to all-electric vehicles. Rather than having separate model designations for gas and electric cars, it will revert back to simply having the latter use the e-tron suffix to avoid having to rename a significant portion of its existing lineup.

Audi is going back to its original naming strategy in which a number in a model's name refers only to the size or positioning in the lineup.

The new naming strategy with odd numbers used on ICE-powered cars and even numbers for EVs, caused confusion, so Audi is dropping it

A month before its reveal, the model that was to be the A7 will be called an A6 after all, as Audi overhauls its naming structure... again.

The change comes just two years after Audi introduced distinct names for electric and internal combustion vehicles.

Audi is backtracking just two years after introducing a new naming strategy that saw even numbers applied to EVs and odd numbers to gas cars.

Switching all ICE cars to odd numbers and reserving evens for EVs was meant to help customers distinguish between powertrains

In March 2023 Audi announced plans for a new naming scheme to better differentiate gas cars from electric vehicles. EVs were supposed to use even numbers, while models with combustion engines were set to use odd numbers.