"The 2025 Audi A6 E-Tron’s journey hasn’t been straightforward, however. The launch of the A6 E-Tron and its sportier S6 E-Tron sibling have been delayed by problems at Cariad, the software and technology company Volkswagen Group founded in 2020. In simple terms, the hardware was ready, but the software wasn’t. And in the A6 E-Tron the software is everything."