Audi E-Tron + our technology – red and white banners above a dark Audi e-tron with glowing blue headlights and a lit e-tron logo, next to Tron dancers in glowing blue and purple LED suits pushing towards it, under a glowing “Volvo Art Session” sign

Recently, in our company, we were speaking about whether you can install LED strips on the car, and fully cover every part of the car. The answer is yes of course you can, we did it in our previous installation for Chevrolet Camaro, where we installed 500 meters of RGB strips. Check the video here:

Video 1 – Chevrolet Camaro LED installationVideos play from YouTube or Vimeo, which may store cookies once you press play.

The battery

The main question is, how much power LED strips would drain from the electric batteries, that power the engine during the driving?

For this interesting experiment, we picked an electric car from the Audi family – E-Tron. Let’s say we would use the same 500 meters of LED strips, as we did in the previous installation for Chevrolet Camaro.

Blue Audi E-Tron electric SUV with a sloping roof on a dark presentation stage, in front of a wall of glowing white light bars and red and blue light lines
Picture 1 – Audi E-Tron (source: internet)

How long would you drive with a full LED installation that covers the whole car?

If we would install 500 meters of LED strips, on the car and connect them to Audi E-Tron 95kWh battery – 300 kW (402 hp), the engine with the range of 350 km for one full charge without additional strips. If you would drive 50 km/h, you could drive 322 km with a full LED installation! That is just 8% difference from the battery – it is like you would add one additional air conditioner and that’s it (500 meters of LED strips take 1.25 kW/h, the car is discharging 27 kW/h per 100 km, when you go 50 km/h, the car discharges 13.5 kW/h (with LED it’s 14.75)).

GIF 1 – Chevrolet Camaro with our installation

Ok, that’s not so bad, but where can I use it?

If you would have an interesting car like this, definitely you will shine at every tuning party, where people are showing their most loved toys, because it is something that nobody knows from the streets. Also, this car could be a test car for the Audi clients, which gives people an extra WoW factor besides the premium feeling from inside the car. The third reason is just to have something extraordinary that you can show to people around.

GIF 2 – Chevrolet Camaro with our installation screening Red Bull logo

Also, you can use the car as a live marketing tool, because you can show any brand or video in real time. Actually, it is the same as watching an LED screen. As a bonus, the car can be used in the live shows and can be synchronized with beam lights, lasers, fog machines… just anything that you can imagine at a big-scale event.

Are you interested in having a special car covered with LED strips? Do not hesitate to contact us!