AUDI Q4 SPORTBACK 40 E-TRON RANGE TEST (highway and city)

I will first test the range on the motorway from Brussels to the Ardennes. Then there is a little bit of sporty driving on country roads. The purpose of this part of the test is to find out the minimum range by testing it at higher average speeds.

At the beginning of this part of the test, the battery is at 90%. I did the test in December and it was between 9 and 12 degrees during this part of the test. The first part of the test is a 101 km drive, purely on the motorway, at 120 km/h. The battery has dropped to 60% and the average consumption is 22 kWh. I will base my estimated range on the consumption and the net capacity of the battery. The total range based on this consumption is 348 km.

I’m now going off the highway to do some sporty driving on country roads in the Ardennes. This stretch was 26 km and the average consumption of 21.2 kWh is somewhat lower than on the highway. After this part, the total average consumption is 21.9 kWh. The range has now been increased to 350 km. Now we drive all the way back via the motorway from the Ardennes to Brussels. Let’s look at the end result.

The battery has dropped to 23% and the total length of the ride was 231 km. The average consumption was 20.8, so the total range on the highway is 368 km .

I further drained the battery after this test to 13% with a mix between highway and city driving and with a change in temperature and I still maintained a consumption of 20.8 kWh.

The Audi Q4 Sportback 40 e-tron is equipped with CCS combined charging system. With this system, the Q4 Sportback e-tron can be charged with both AC alternating current and DC direct current.

For this test, I am charging the car at a DC Fast Charger. The Q4 Sportback 40 e-tron can fast charge at a speed of up to 125 kW. Audi says the Q4 40 e-tron In ideal conditions can charge enough electricity to cover around 130 kilometers in about ten minutes. It takes about 38 minutes to charge the battery from 5% back to 80%.

At the start of the test, the battery is at 13%. It’s 5 degrees outside. The car indicated that it would take about 1h10 min to fully charge the battery. I’m just going to do a 30 minute charging test. After 10 minutes we were at a charging speed of about 103 kW. The battery increased to 33% and we gained about 88 km on the range indicator. After 30 minutes the battery is at 72%. The range is 300 km, so we have gained 239 km .

I have not done an AC charging test with the sportback model. However, in the summer I did an AC load test with the regular Q4 40 e-tron. At the end of this video I will share some information about my test results.

Now let’s test the range at lower average speeds in the city. I want to know what the maximum range of this car could be. Let’s take a look at my results. I did this test the day after the highway test. This day it was a lot colder. The temperature during this part of the test was between 5.5 and 8 degrees. It was also foggy.

At the beginning of this part of the test, the battery is at 66%. The first part of 20 km was therefore pure city driving in Brussels. The battery is at 60% and the average consumption was 20.9 kWh which is quite high. The range based on this consumption is 367 km. This is mainly due to the many traffic lights and busier traffic resulting in a lot of stop-and-go driving.

After that I was still in an urban area, but with more ability to drive through. I drained the battery to 35%. As you can see, consumption has dropped considerably and over a journey of 124 km my final consumption is 17.4 kWh.

This results in a range of 440 km in the city .

In conclusion, I can say that the range of the Audi Q4 Sportback 40 e-tron is somewhere between 368 km and 440 km, based on comparable driving conditions and measured at somewhat colder temperatures between 5.5 and 12 degrees. In much colder temperatures, it will probably be less. In the summer, you probably have more range. Speaking of summer, I also did a similar test with the Q4 40 e-tron.

There are some differences between the regular Q4 and the sportback. The Q4 e-tron achieves a drag coefficient of 0.28 and the Sportback achieves an even lower figure with a drag coefficient of 0.26. The sportback weighs a little more, 2,045 kilos versus 2020 kilos in the regular 40 e-tron. The WLTP range for the regular e-tron is 521 km. So in comparison you should get slightly better results with the Sportback.

Let’s see some results. The range I achieved in the city was 487 km and on the highway I achieved 399 km. The temperature was between 15 and 20 degrees.

All in all, I think this car performed very well in the action radius test. It is normal to have less range in colder temperatures and a range of 368 km to 440 km in these colder temperatures is usable for daily driving.