Battery size: 52 - 77kWh
Miles per kWh: 4.1
E-Rating™: A
Max charge rate: 125 kW
Range: 200-316 miles
Audi Q4 e-tron performance
It’s not the fastest Audi we’ve experienced, mainly because just over 200bhp in a two-tonne car won’t ever set the world alight, but it’s composed and eerily quiet – you can thank the acoustic glazing for that. While it shares a lot of DNA with the Enyaq and ID.4, it drives differently to them both.
Audi is doing a great job of making sure their electric cars still feel like an ‘Audi’. Lots of people thought that once we switched over to electric all cars would start to feel the same and that just isn’t the case. Go for the top-rung, 295bhp Q4 e-tron 50 and you’ll have something with more of the startling off-the-line pace electric cars have made their party piece.
Weight still comes to get the Q4 eventually, though, and its performance levels don’t ultimately warrant the term ‘performance SUV’.
There are all the usual drive modes to select from Comfort, Auto, Efficiency, Individual or Dynamic. Both Range and Efficiency boost efficiency by limiting the maximum speed, while there’s also a B ‘mode’ on the gear selector which boosts energy recuperation and you can play with the amount of regeneration you get using the paddles on the steering wheel.
Audi Q4 e-tron drive
If you have a higher-powered Q4 with Quattro all-wheel drive, you’ll have a very tidy handling car indeed. Ultimately, it doesn’t offer outright fun, but you get exactly what you expect from an Audi SUV… it feels solid and composed.
And it really benefits from that when it comes to handling, with adaptive gadgets that move the power around to make cornering more stable. It even has something called variable dynamic weight distribution to help it deal with corners in a steady, reassuring style. It’s undoubtedly talented on a stretch of twisty country road, where it feels like a hefty two-tonne beast than it ought to, even if hustling it around with a squircle steering wheel is initially odd. The ride is decent too; it’ll get fussy over bumps and ruts, but anything with this much weight and wheels this large can probably claim the same. It should prove itself plush enough for everyday life.
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