These electric cars are really quite good, pops had a Jaguar I Pace black edition which is a real beast, so comfortable and yet so capable and handles great (coming from a bmw driver). The batteries in the floor really do help the car stay flat. Would love to a see a review on a I-Pace and know your thoughts.
Whats your opinion on the reliability of this. If you trawl the owners forum, you read about various catastrophic failures, the worst being coolant leaking into electric motor and blowing it up. Did Audi fix it? Really want to buy one but scared because of it.
My good friend is a qualified Audi Tech he says they are good cars but only buy them new, buying out of the manufacturers warranty is full hardy, because they do go wrong the batteries and the final drive play up neither are cheap to fix, they are also very heavy cars and this wears out the bushings bearings and tyres faster than normal. So buy new forget when it gets to four years old unless you bought it new, replacement parts for Etrons is also difficult to get same with Porsche Ev's they share many components and supply does not meet demand so delays are inevitable.
@@Azureecosse The Audi E-Tron comes with a standard 8 year warranty on the battery, and 3 year warranty on the rest of the vehicle. The only things to really go wrong with an EV within those 3 years are the same as a petrol/diesel car, minus the ICE things, so no oil, coolant, fuel, moving parts in the engine, exhaust, excess cooling etc, only tyres, brakes, suspension and the such. Which is why servicing an EV costs about half of the equivalent fossil fuel powered car, there's just less things to go wrong
@@Azureecosse An eTron 55 Sportback was £80k new three years ago. Just bought a 34k miler for £26k And have bought an Extended Audi Warranty for £37 a month I would rather save £60k
When you're doing all of those acceleration tests on that dual carriageway, is that with the 'sport' boost on? when you get just over 400bhp for 8 seconds when on full throttle? or is it in normal mode with 350bhp? Either way this thing looks fast as hell!
I test drove both those cars and chose the Audi. The EQC was ergonomically and aesthetically significantly inferior to the Audi especially the interior which was cramped in comparison and with Mercedes infamous fake leather. You say the EQC is much better but Mercedes have discontinued it already? I didn’t notice any difference in performance apart from the Audi felt much faster from 30 to 70. I’m not an Audi fanboy I’ve had many more Mercedes in my time.
Who cares about accelration figures when it's good enough? Teens maybe. Read about experiences, two expensive points: junction box can break (6200 eur) or electrical rear engine (7000 eur). When good will and warrancy ends, it might get quickly really expensive with used e-trons.
I have a 22 55 Sportback and it’s at its most efficient on the motorway which is a surprise
Does it have soft close doors? Could be the reason for the delay opening
These electric cars are really quite good, pops had a Jaguar I Pace black edition which is a real beast, so comfortable and yet so capable and handles great (coming from a bmw driver). The batteries in the floor really do help the car stay flat.
Would love to a see a review on a I-Pace and know your thoughts.
Been wanting to drive one of those. Heard good things about them.
@@ParagonCarsLondon would love to see it! real hidden gem of a channel, keep up the great work mate, should easily be at 100k subs with this content
Whats your opinion on the reliability of this. If you trawl the owners forum, you read about various catastrophic failures, the worst being coolant leaking into electric motor and blowing it up. Did Audi fix it? Really want to buy one but scared because of it.
My good friend is a qualified Audi Tech he says they are good cars but only buy them new, buying out of the manufacturers warranty is full hardy, because they do go wrong the batteries and the final drive play up neither are cheap to fix, they are also very heavy cars and this wears out the bushings bearings and tyres faster than normal. So buy new forget when it gets to four years old unless you bought it new, replacement parts for Etrons is also difficult to get same with Porsche Ev's they share many components and supply does not meet demand so delays are inevitable.
@@Azureecosse The Audi E-Tron comes with a standard 8 year warranty on the battery, and 3 year warranty on the rest of the vehicle. The only things to really go wrong with an EV within those 3 years are the same as a petrol/diesel car, minus the ICE things, so no oil, coolant, fuel, moving parts in the engine, exhaust, excess cooling etc, only tyres, brakes, suspension and the such. Which is why servicing an EV costs about half of the equivalent fossil fuel powered car, there's just less things to go wrong
@@Azureecosse An eTron 55 Sportback was £80k new three years ago.
Just bought a 34k miler for £26k
And have bought an Extended Audi Warranty for £37 a month
I would rather save £60k
I have got one, and I went from an A7 diesel, which I loved. The Etron is great but have had some mirror issues
When you're doing all of those acceleration tests on that dual carriageway, is that with the 'sport' boost on? when you get just over 400bhp for 8 seconds when on full throttle? or is it in normal mode with 350bhp? Either way this thing looks fast as hell!
At the very beginning of the video it clearly shows the green gauges in boost mode above 100. Which means full power and sport mode.
Infrastructure better in 2024, worth getting this now?
If you can charge at home and aren't doing massive miles regularly, very probably. They are a bargain used. Did you get one?
I have the 22 Sline Black Edition 55... so far, so good. My wife's EQC is much better, though, and tonnes faster lol
I test drove both those cars and chose the Audi. The EQC was ergonomically and aesthetically significantly inferior to the Audi especially the interior which was cramped in comparison and with Mercedes infamous fake leather. You say the EQC is much better but Mercedes have discontinued it already? I didn’t notice any difference in performance apart from the Audi felt much faster from 30 to 70. I’m not an Audi fanboy I’ve had many more Mercedes in my time.
Who cares about accelration figures when it's good enough? Teens maybe.
Read about experiences, two expensive points: junction box can break (6200 eur) or electrical rear engine (7000 eur). When good will and warrancy ends, it might get quickly really expensive with used e-trons.
8 years warranty or 160.000 km ..just saying
@@iam5085 No eTron is out of the battery and drivetrain warranty yet
I think he has the broken model. The steering wheel was accidentally placed on the wrong side…