Moonshot: Audi Says It Will Send Its Own Lunar Rover to the Moon in 2017

 

 

 

As crazy as it may sound, which is only natural for we human to make the impossible into a reality. Mostly, Its not about who has it more but, who wants it more. The question is, As the world evolve to one giant leap for an automaker? After nearly two years of planning, officials from Audi said this week that they intend to put an unmanned rover on the moon by the end of 2017—and that they’ll put it down in the same spot where the last humans explored the lunar surface, back in 1972.

I'm quite surprised by it, wondering if they have gone nuts, But still yet I can't wait to witness the adventure Audi have been preparing to do.
More than a dozen engineers from Audi have collaborated with a German team of scientists on an entry in the Google Lunar X Prize competition to transport a vehicle to the surface of the moon, where it will travel at least a third of a mile and capture images and video.
Audi says its Lunar Quattro prototypes have undergone extensive testing over the past year. Engineers have optimized the vehicle’s all-wheel-drive power distribution, outfitted them with the brand’s e-tron battery technology, and shed 18 pounds from their initial weight of 84 pounds.