Audi Q4 40 e-tron range test (motorway and city)

I’m going to test the range on the highway first. There is also a little sportier driving on country roads in this stretch. The purpose of this part of the test is to find out the minimum range by testing the Q4 at higher average speeds.

At the start of the test, the battery is fully charged to 100%. The range indicator is at 341 km. The first part of the ride is 116.9 km at 120 km/h on the motorway. The battery has now dropped to 70% and the average power consumption is 20 kWh. I will base the range estimate on consumption and net battery capacity. The total range based on this consumption is 385 km. We are immediately above the range estimated by the range indicator.

I’m going to leave the highway now to drive a bit sportier on country roads. This stretch was 45 km and the average consumption of 20.3 kWh is only slightly higher than that on the motorway. The battery has now dropped to 57%. The total average power consumption is 20.1 kWh and the estimated range has dropped to 383 km.

Now we are going to drive all the way back via the motorway. I drove 168 km on the motorway on the return journey and the average consumption for this stretch was 18.7 kWh. The battery is now all the way down to 15%. The total length of the ride is 330 km. The average consumption is 19.3 kWh. The final range is 399 km and I consider that the minimum range of this car.

The public charging station, with AC or alternating current, has a speed of 22kW, but the Q4’s on-board charger has a speed of 11kW, so this is what we’ll get. In the beginning, the car indicated that it would take 5h55 minutes to charge. In the end it took 6h25 min to fully charge from 15% to 100%.

For the sake of completeness, I would also like to mention that you can also fast charge up to 125 kW with DC or direct current, but I have not tested this myself.

Now let’s test the range at lower average speeds in the city. I want to find out the maximum range of the Q4. Let’s look at my results.

I have run the battery down to 71% to find out the average consumption. That way I can make an estimate of the total driving range. I stopped at 71%, because the average consumption did not differ that much at the last measurement points. Moreover, it took more than 4h and a half to drive the battery down to 71%

Based on an average consumption of 15.8 kWh, the range is 487 km in the city .

In conclusion, I can say that the range of the Q4 40 e-tron is somewhere between 399 km and 487 km , based on comparable driving conditions. I would like to point out that the weather conditions during the test were not optimal. It was raining all the time and the temperature sometimes dropped to 16 degrees. In better weather conditions, it seems feasible to me to also achieve a driving range of 520 km WLTP in the city. I also tested the Skoda ENYAQ in better weather conditions and then I got consumption figures of around 14.3 kWh in the city.