Audi e-tron

[wfo123]

That does seem thirsty! Even my ~80mph 127 mile trip was 2.2mi/kWh

Edited by wfo123 on Friday 20th December 18:10

[ZesPak]

wfo123 said:

I think the moral of the story is it’s best to check them both out to make you’re own mind up

I agree, boot shape is much more than liters can tell you!
I just pulled up the numbers to confirm my suspicion that in terms of relative size, the etron felt small. More Q5 than Q7, as opposed to its footprint.

[wfo123]

ZesPak said:

I agree, boot shape is much more than liters can tell you!
I just pulled up the numbers to confirm my suspicion that in terms of relative size, the etron felt small. More Q5 than Q7, as opposed to its footprint.

Oh yes, it’s certainly more Q5 than Q7 (think Q5.5)

[ds666]

wfo123 said:

That does seem thirsty! Even my ~80mph 127 mile trip was 2.2mi/kWh

Edited by wfo123 on Friday 20th December 18:10

It does doesn't it ? I'll try some longer runs over Christmas and see what it does .

[ds666]

Ref regen braking . I've noticed the levels of regen. just by lifting off the " throttle " varies quite a bit from zero ( ie it just coasts ) to as much or more than you get by pulling the " -" paddle twice . Now I may be imagining it but I'm convinced the regen varies depending on traffic i.e if you are catching someone up in traffic or are just near another car you get more regen ...
Any etron owners noticed the same ??

[RobDickinson]

I think it has a dynamic mode? Or is that the eqc..

[saaby93]

wfo123 said:

That does seem thirsty! Even my ~80mph 127 mile trip was 2.2mi/kWh

double that for an Ioniq - anyone know why?
https://cleantechnica.com/2018/06/30/what-are-the-...

[craig_m67]

ds666 said:

Ref regen braking . I've noticed the levels of regen. just by lifting off the " throttle " varies quite a bit from zero ( ie it just coasts ) to as much or more than you get by pulling the " -" paddle twice . Now I may be imagining it but I'm convinced the regen varies depending on traffic i.e if you are catching someone up in traffic or are just near another car you get more regen ...
Any etron owners noticed the same ??

Shirley knowing how the vehicle operates and responds would be foremost in your mind before setting out.. isn’t it in the owners manual somewhere?

Or is the e-tron a 737-max in the making??

[wfo123]

ds666 said:

Now I may be imagining it but I'm convinced the regen varies depending on traffic i.e if you are catching someone up in traffic or are just near another car you get more regen ...

Yes! This is the drive assist tech at work. If regen is set to ‘auto’, it will vary the regen depending on traffic and the road ahead (it ramps up regen if it sees a roundabout coming up for example). Now, I love the one pedal driving of my i3 but having got used to it, I’m starting to appreciate Audi’s quite clever implementation of regen that allows you to coast at speed unless there is something in the way.

Have you noticed how the car will gently steer for you to stay in lane!?

[ds666]

craig_m67 said:

ds666 said:

Ref regen braking . I've noticed the levels of regen. just by lifting off the " throttle " varies quite a bit from zero ( ie it just coasts ) to as much or more than you get by pulling the " -" paddle twice . Now I may be imagining it but I'm convinced the regen varies depending on traffic i.e if you are catching someone up in traffic or are just near another car you get more regen ...
Any etron owners noticed the same ??

Shirley knowing how the vehicle operates and responds would be foremost in your mind before setting out.. isn’t it in the owners manual somewhere?

Read the manual ? You what ?

[ds666]

wfo123 said:

ds666 said:

Now I may be imagining it but I'm convinced the regen varies depending on traffic i.e if you are catching someone up in traffic or are just near another car you get more regen ...

Have you noticed how the car will gently steer for you to stay in lane!?

Yes . The first thing i do is switch that useless function off . If I'd wanted to sleep when I'm driving I'd get a Tesla ....


I actually find the Audi lane control really poor and I do switch it off as soon as start the car . I mainly do a roads where it doesn't work well . I've never found it difficult to stay in a lane anyway ...

[wfo123]

ds666 said:

Yes . The first thing i do is switch that useless function off . If I'd wanted to sleep when I'm driving I'd get a Tesla ....

I see where you're coming from . As this is all new to me, I'm still in novelty mode so working with it (for now at least)

[ds666]

wfo123 said:

ds666 said:

Yes . The first thing i do is switch that useless function off . If I'd wanted to sleep when I'm driving I'd get a Tesla ....

I see where you're coming from . As this is all new to me, I'm still in novelty mode so working with it (for now at least)

When you get bored with the steering not going where you want it to , its the button on the end of the LHS stalk that switches it off

Actually Audi were really poor at explaining anything to do with the regen etc . The chap we had a test drive with didn't know anything about the paddles . BMW had " i genius" sales people 5 years ago ....

And regarding the regen , I think I'd rather have a consistent idea of what happens ( like you do with an i3 or the ipace ) than the computer working it out

[wfo123]

Quick update on real range after a few weeks of ownership (keep in mind it is winter so this should improve):

1) The car is not great with short trips (a few miles or less than 10 minutes) often showing <2miles/kWh. Probably down to cold weather, suboptimal battery temp etc etc... Luckily the car seems to perform much better on longer trips.

2) Motorway real winter range at ~80mph is roughly 190 miles (not bad IMO for this time of year).

3) Best so far for me is my 80 mile trip cross country today, no motorways, mainly 60mph A roads with a few 30mph villages along the way. Started with 185 mile range (100% battery) and arrived a few hours later with 144 miles range (64% battery) which equates to >220 mile range. Efficiency was 2.6miles/kWh.

Overall, the car is definitely a very comfortable ‘cruiser’ rather than the point and squirt ‘fun’ you’d get from something like an i3. It does have bags of power when you need it though

[Timbergiant]

Has anyone got any info on the e-Tron Sportback? I've been in touch with Audi but at this time of year its a bit quiet in the dealership, it looks incredible, best looking SUV/coupe thing yet.

[ZesPak]

Is it this?
As far as coupe SUV's go it isn't too bad, but do prefer the I Pace design.
Will anything but the exterior be significantly different to the e-tron?

[SWoll]

It'll be identical just with less rear headroom and boot space if previous SUV 'coupes' are anything to go by.

[RobDickinson]

I just don't even

[dmsims]

SWoll said:

It'll be identical just with less rear headroom and boot space if previous SUV 'coupes' are anything to go by.

So make a pointless vehicle even more pointless ?

[SWoll]

dmsims said:

SWoll said:

It'll be identical just with less rear headroom and boot space if previous SUV 'coupes' are anything to go by.

So make a pointless vehicle even more pointless ?

No issues with SUV's personally as the extra height and space over an estate can be quite useful IME.

Saying that though as most are bought by people who rarely carry passengers anyway (or small kids) I doubt the reduction in rear headroom and boot space will matter to them anyway?