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The Audi A6 is a well-known and popular big executive car, and this new, all-electric Audi A6 e-tron has got the driving range, tech and image to really sway some more traditional buyers. It might even be the better buy over its nemesis, the BMW i5.
Welcome to the all-new Audi A6 e-tron. This big executive has a lot in common with the Audi Q6 e-tron that we really enjoyed earlier this year, including the same new PPE platform (also used in the Porsche Macan). In fact, we reckon that the Q6 e-tron SUV and Porsche Macan SUVs will be key rivals to the A6. I know that the A6 is a traditional estate or saloon-ish shaped five-door hatchback - called the Audi A6 Sportback - but if you’ve got £70,000-ish to spend on a spacious, long-range electric car for yourself and the family, the Q6 and Macan are as sure to crop up as the BMW i5 and Mercedes EQE that are the A6’s direct non-SUV rivals.
It's not shy of some seriously good competition, then, but the A6 e-tron has a lot going for it. Not least, its range! The A6 gets two battery options; a 75.8- (usable capacity) or 94.9kWh pack. In the estate-bodied A6 e-tron Avant that we’re focussing on here, those are good for an official WLTP range of up to 361- or 437 miles, which makes this one of the longest range cars in the class.
As I’ve mentioned, the Audi A6 Avant e-tron has a great claimed range of up to 437 miles, or 367 for the smaller battery, and if you go for the swoopy Sportback then that creeps up by another 20- to 30 miles or so.
Both the 75.8kWh usable (83kWh total capacity) battery that you can only have in the entry-level A6 e-tron, and the 94.9kWh (100kWh total capacity) pack that powers every other A6 and the sporty Audi S6 e-tron, are lithium-ion NMC batteries that promise good longevity and performance.
You also get a heat pump as standard, which will help with efficiency and range in the winter. What is disappointing is that there’s no word on Audi offering vehicle-to-load (V2L) charging, or vehicle-to-grid (V2G). For a brand new, hi-tech EV on a brand new platform, that feels like a huge missed opportunity given that Hyundai, Kia, MG and Peugeot all offer V2L on cars that cost less than half what you’ll pay for the A6. Sort it out, Audi!
Join Tom as he takes to the road in the new Audi A6 e-tron for the first time. Has Audi built a winner here? Would you choose it over a BMW i5 or Mercedes EQE? Let us know in the comments below.
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Heavens be praised... it's a car! Not an SUV, an actual car!
Oh, and it's a fast Audi that's RWD. Cool.
Good point!! Getting sick of all the suv's
@@carlm7764 🙂
Great to see a saloon, like you I do not want an SUV.
This is so refreshing to see
You say it's not an SUV, but the seating position is very high.
Not into sedans anymore but first impression is Audi is doing better in ev design and production. Thank you for the excellent video. 😊
If you told me that this is the new ICE Audi A6, I would believe it. In other words, did the (German) car makers finally understand that they shouldn't make electric cars deliberately ugly and distinct? A car is still a car no matter what engine it has.
But shouldn’t we try to move design forward at the same time? This is just another ho hum Audi and I’ve had six each got progressively duller until I stopped buying them!
@@gileshalliwell3591 Have you seen MB EQS? BMW XM? If that's your FORWARD... probably better to go backwards...
@@gileshalliwell3591 Whether you like the design of a specific car or not is up to you. And whether you buy a car you don't like is also up to you.
My point is that many car makers designed new uglier EV cars while having in comparison more beautiful ICE cars.
And now there seems to be a (positive) development that they stop to make this difference. I assume because they learn the hard way that they won't sell their ICE cars anymore and ALSO not their (deliberately) ugly EV models.
Regarding specifically Audi: their cars have been looking like this since my childhood. Only "e-trons" suddenly had a very "complicated" design. Why?
So, my point is: This new Audi A6 EV looks as boring and typically Audi as Audis always looked. It does not try to sell me "I'm an EV and therefore I'm drastically ugly because we don't have the new techology under control yet".
It is only a new Audi, not more. And this is what I like, regardless whether I like the general Audi design or not.
it's you.
Porsche Macan EV.
I sense Audi are on a comeback. Liking this. The new A5 looks pretty nice too.
I was thinking the same thing
Nice to see a car again and not a SUV/CUV. That range is amazing as well, agree I'm sure there will be a Diesel owner making some untrue comment about driving from London to Athens without ever stopping beyond the Channel crossing. The brake cleaning is very cool something I suspect other manufacturers haven't thought of. Not sure what kind of roads you've been on but the sound level is very quiet from what I can hear. Thanks Tom.
finally a european brand made a proper ev car (yes a car not a whitegood like tesla!) against upcoming Chinese premiums (zeekr, xpeng). cannot wait to see head to head comparison when all land to the UK and seriously considering to buy one!
The review I was waiting for!
Another great review from electrifying’s best reviewer !
Another great review from Tom. This Audi is way better than the EQE. As I don't have access to a salary sacrifice, it's a bit much for me and the boot should be bigger.
Hear, hear! I think this looks great too. The EQE - the design is marmite as well. Price is the big thing especially with expected depreciation. They need to incentivise sales by at least reducing interest on PCP and/or subsidising lease offers. Once battery tech improves and infrastructure, I think demand will always be strong enough from then on.
@mra9085 I like the marmite analogy! I do like the look of the EQE but the price and boot are less than ideal.
For the records because so many people got it wrong like in this video. Your max recuperation dose not depend on the B or D mode when you driving a VAG vehicle. The only difference is how you control it. In the B mode your recuperation starts emidiate when you go of the gas. In the D mode you have to hit the breake for that. In both mode you can see in you drive screen a bar diagram which goes from full blue for gas to full green for full recuperation. You physical brakes hit only when your blue bar is fully used. The max recuperation of the car is the same.
So in other words, in D, foot off the pedal and free wheel, in B mode, effectively single pedal driving and take you foot off the pedal and you go in regen-based braking?
@@iainhunneybell basically yes but to use the full regen potential you need to hit the brakes.
If you only take your foot of the gas in B mode you still have some recuperation capacity left. How much you can see in your drive display. If you put your foot on the brakes now, the car starts to increase the recuperation. Only if max recuperation ist reacht (green bar is filled) the car uses its physical brakes.
Lots of People think B is mor efficient because they assume they only get recup in B. But that ist not the case. More likely the opposite. In most cases D is more efficient because you have better control when to use free wheel and when to use how much recuperation.
An other mistake many car influencers do is to take a look in the datasheet and compare the value for max recuperation with the deceleration in B. Later one they blame the company for wrong value’s because an other car has a lower max recuperation value on paper but decelerate better in one Paddel driving.
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Excellent video. The in depth coverage is superb. Thank you
So Tom the $64k/£65k question. Better than the BMW i5? Looks better and has useful hatch but I guess the i5 is better built and perhaps ultimately a better drive. Looking forward to a twin test.
This is EV Audi should be making first the proper Audi saloon and estate ❤❤❤.
I think they did a superb job with this platform. Now we just need AllRoad version 😊😂❤❤.
Great video keep it up 🤟💪🤩
Now we need comparison test BMW i5 vs Audi A6 vs Mercedes EQE
Mining lithium is a water guzzling extreme toxic pollution metal for the planets ocean and waters, it is way cheaper to mine toxic lithium than it is to recyle it and it is very difficult to recycle, this is why 99% is not, the pollution it causes to the planets ocean is not sustainable, its like a nuclear chernobl to the planets ocean every year, due to the heavy toxins and pollution in mining lithium, when a lithium car is still in the company assembly line it has already polluted more than a hydrogen fuel cell car that has been on the road for more than 125000 miles, the secret about hydrogen fuel cell cars is that each car actually cleans the air as it runs due to it`s clean watered electrolysis when released onto the atmosphere, hydrogen fuel cell cars have truly safe to drive and remarkable cars with the new technology, fuel cell cars are the future not toxic lithium cars! we all have to start the switch!
A couple of updates did give Android Auto direction indicators on the dash in my ID4. And Google is apparently working on battery info integration as well.
Great review, super nice car, not sure about those wing mirrors.
Classic case of over engineering
Wing mirrors suck
I've never tried them, but I've never heard a reviewer say they prefer cameras over mirrors in any brand car. So I'd sure option the mirrors if I had the money to burn on a new car
Where are you driving? Is that Craters of the Moon? Great pictures
It's Tenerife
Headup display in my Skoda Enyaq works with Android Auto for navigation but not with Carplay , I'm assuming it's the same for this car.
Swipey foot thing. For these, you need to do a forward and back kick under the bumper sensor not swipe left and right like most people do! Then works every time (I used to test these systems!)
When is it coming to the US?
The thing putting me off the most was probably the rattling piano black plastic in the center console
Q4 is also rear wheel drive.
REALY LIKE THIS GUYS STYLE OF REPORTING CALM INFORMATIVE AND NOT EXCESSIVE WAFFLE.
Good review covering real world points.. cheers
It looks great!
A5 even better!
Audi needs to have a convertible as a premium brend.
Maybe convertible EV?!
Cheaper EV will be a must soon enough!
This Audi looks gorgeous , A5 is very attractive too
Great video! The drone shot at 7:02 is fantastic
Kudos to Audi for that. This footage is done by them.
@@dojascat3391came to say the same thing!
The most beautiful EV I have ever seen. And 750km of range.
Enjoyed the review!
That 460 mile range is tempting, but way too pricey to sell many.
Soon we will see the first reasonably priced car capable of doing a real world 400 mile plus. Probably with the new BYD batteries. Something like that for about £35k is what the market needs.
I do like an ‘enormous flap’ that closes up when I pull it out. Brilliant. I keep leaving my Scenic flap open, and find it a bit small and dark….
You can get a Scenic that claims close to your 400 mile parameter (about 300 in reality) with a list price of £41k, so you’ll probably be able to get that discounted below your £35k price point
460 seemed way to high to me, not sure where he got his figures from but when you go to the configurator 402 is the highest combined range so probably get 320 miles at best
Mining lithium is a water guzzling extreme toxic pollution metal for the planets ocean and waters, it is way cheaper to mine toxic lithium than it is to recyle it and it is very difficult to recycle, this is why 99% is not, the pollution it causes to the planets ocean is not sustainable, its like a nuclear chernobl to the planets ocean every year, due to the heavy toxins and pollution in mining lithium, when a lithium car is still in the company assembly line it has already polluted more than a hydrogen fuel cell car that has been on the road for more than 125000 miles, the secret about hydrogen fuel cell cars is that each car actually cleans the air as it runs due to it`s clean watered electrolysis when released onto the atmosphere, hydrogen fuel cell cars have truly safe to drive and remarkable cars with the new technology, fuel cell cars are the future not toxic lithium cars! we all have to start the switch!
Great review Tom, definitely something to consider when changing my current A6 Avant 🤔
I really like those inside mirrors, very very nice!
Nice to see an aerodynamic e-tron from Audi at last
I do like the look.
11:26 I wish you actually showed us the head up display rather than talk about it
They're quite hard to properly photograph without wearing a gopro on your nose.
Same as in every VAG EV. Just Look for VW, Cupra or Skoda. Probably a sligthly different Design in color. But that's it
Can I assume that all these downloadable pixel patterns come included in the enormous price? No I was foolish to ask, an act of unbridled optimism!
No physical buttons? What are they thinking?
Always enjoyable to see a Tom review.
Audi appear to be pushing forward with improvements but as Tom says the devil is in the details, 21" rims, air suspension etc will make a difference.
That being said, using WLTP figures is always a bit of a joke and unrealistic most times. Having figures for summer, winter, urban and motorway would be great if they were based on real world. it will never happen as it is probably impossible to do this on a consistent basis that can be repeated. I can wish lol.
Interesting comment about strong regen and disc brakes. Yes, I drive in One Pedal Mode most of the time, and after I wash my car (especially the wheels) I do use some braking to “clean the discs” I can feel & hear it. But otherwise the brakes are mainly idle.
A reason why Audi might have kept the rear view mirror is for redundancy. Double cam systems will not have a fall back or a way to detect faults.
Very nice. Is there going to be a cheaper, better Skoda equivalent?
Nice to see Mt Tiede again. And wow a saloon......
Norway here - I have a RWD ID.3 and RWD EV's with all the weight low and center behave differently in snow than fossil fuel RWD cars with most of the weight over the front wheels. In fact, tests have shown that a RWD EV will handle the snow better than a FWD EV or fossil fuel, FWD car. But of course, AWD is going to be king. :D
Great point!
What model year is this A6 E-tron?
Excellent review, once again, thank you!
But do the indicators come as standard, or do you have to pay extra like other German cars?
We love our car. ^^ Can recommend.
Cost too much, just wait for 3 years good price for a 2nd hand car.
It looks like a proper effort from audi.
The placement of that passenger screen looks like someone slapped it on during a coffee break. Audi prides itself on design , yet this feels like a tablet awkwardly bolted on last-minute because someone in marketing said, “Lexus has one!” It doesn’t integrate; it invades. It’s like hanging a framed picture on a glass wall-technically it’s there, but you wish it wasn’t.
Are they going to make an 'All-Road' version?
Are you going to risk a scratch on the battery and occasional fire?
@@NighthunterNyxof course they leave the batteries unprotected on road cars, what a nonsense comment. An Allroad version would be an ideal alternative to the Taycan cross tourismo
I don’t like the digital rearview mirror because you are looking at a flat image and your eyes have to adjust which is annoying. I imagine it’s the same with the sideview mirrors. Maybe you get used to it, but I don’t think I’d risk I it with the sideview mirrors. At least with a rearview you can flip it to a be a regular mirror if you want. It could be an issue of how old your eyes are.
56 year old with digital side mirrors and digital rear view mirror AND wear glasses... No issues whatsoever, took about two hours to get used to digital mirrors... Fantastic in bad weather as much clearer/cleaner view of the road. Having said that, nothing wrong with ordinary mirrors (digital ain't fixing a problem as there is no problem with normal mirrors)
I think 750 km is really good
Wltp is complete nonsense, 500km in summer, 400 in winter.
@@avdp9095 which is fine with me.
Thought you might compare vs EQE and the ioniq 6 too.
Truly electrifying! 😎
Stop with the cost cuts and give us premium quality interiors made with more aluminium, wood along real knobs rather than haptic buttons and glossy/hard plastics for this price!
Please stop using split headlights. It destroys the front of the car in terms of design. Looks like a cheap Kona or Citroën C4.
How does it compare with Nio ET9
did i hear that right? its RWD?
An A2 Etron would've been the clever bet
Will happen, but too short for a large Batterie...
No, people always buy bigger cars. Sadly thats a fact.
Indeed, A2 is prime for reinvention
Two points I would like to ask are, when will a manufacturer make a powdered frunk and the thermo efficiency of a only glass sun roof at motorway speeds in winter over one with a hard cover?
The constant jibes at the Volkswagen ID.3 touch-sensitive button are rather bizarre to owners of ID.3. I've had mine for 2 years and 30,000 miles and I not only don't have a problem with them but I really like them. When you use the car everyday, you get used to the all the ways of using it, a quick stab changes the speed limiter/cruise control by 1mph increments, a slightly longer pulse gets you 5mph increments and a swipe 10mph. It's brilliant. I think there is a trade off between designing a car that journalists will like because they can pick it up quickly and a system designed for a user who will get to know the system and become very adept at making the system very fast to use. You guys think you're experts and you give great design a bad name.
1:25 nothing wrong with "still" having a latch. It's an important safety feature. Nice, informative review 😊
I don't think the Porsche Macan has it though.
I´m looking forward for the time where we don´t need route planning in therms of planning when and where to charge, like with ICE cars ^^ But until then Audi will probably have SatNav that are as good as navigation with Google Maps.
So when you get one in the UK lets see you do the test drive Lands End to John O Groats and see what really happens? Shame most people will need to remortgage to buy one with that sort of range.
The details on the grill? Why? The big black U shaped deletion on front, why?
A review you can trust. Thanks
Above average for an ev, the insurance bill is pretty hefty though.
Not sure about the piano black on the outside.. panoramic roof is amazing
Lots of cars adding plastic to bumpers, must be weight, but possibly cost. It is not aesthetics as you say.
Watched the No 8 video first. No contest - comfortable win for the French.
Awesome! Scratch the shit out of the paint to open the frunk 🙌🏽
The virtual mirrors are awesome, I have them on the Etron and yes they took me about a week tonget usesd to but after that they are absolutely amazing at night and during rain. They only fold manually on the etron which is annoying...
I like the car, shame about the price though.
Beautiful locations chosen for the shoot! If I i didn't see the Euro tag, I would have assumed this was shot in Arizona and Colorado. Where was this video filmed?
Tenerife.
@Electrifyingcom thank you! I'm planning a trip to Portugal and Madeira in April, I may have to look into adding this to my destinations list.
Why are makers of expensive cars like Audi still happy to fit crappy sat nav, when such good alternatives can be licenced for reasonable money? Baffling!
Great video and great range, but it is a big battery!
Exterior looks fairly modest
Great and informative review! But please Audi, facelift that car and get rid of the terrible touch controls on the steering wheel. A bit of hard plastic might be OK - But why do they insist on making the buttons you touch most often just plain terrible!?
“Now the more observant of you, will realise this is the back wheel” 😆
great Porsche. cool looking CCTV mirrors, don t buy them though if you want pleasant drives. Taycan charging port doors not available here.
Nice car .
After test driving one i can definitely say that it’s not.
Why not? I know is too expensive at the moment, probably to understand it takes some time.
@@sgsorin There’s so many things wrong with it… where to start… The seats are horrible, the driving position is horrible, the infotainment system shows all sorts of unnecessary shit and makes the things you actually want to see and interact with as small as possible. The AC controls clicks sound like a blood lancet punch. The elbow rest on the doors doesn’t reach far back enough so your elbow digs into the hard plastic edge behind it. The steering wheel adjustment is too limited. It’s far less powerful than significantly cheaper competitors. It looks ugly. I can keep going with this but the main point is that it’s generally just really poorly designed and the price they’re asking for it is an absolute scam. Furthermore, the options you can get on it don’t feel like options but rather things the car should just come with since the base trim options are so low quality that they should never be put into a car this expensive.
The plastic would annoy me (if I could afford such a nice expensive car). But the denim fabric looks great, I hope there will be more such materials. For example the wool seats in the i7 look so great :D Thank you for the video and greetings from germany^^
2 inch difference in wheel size takes much more than just 3% off of the range. My M3P on 20” as opposed to a normal M3 on 18” has 25% higher consumption (city usage). A big part of it is the wheel size.
Looks really good, better than anything Mercedes has done. Love the interior. But pricey.
Only £65k. Peanuts !
Yes, lots of peanuts... 65k of them!!
Simply amazing
Can it do real one pedal driving? Meaning you can do a 15min drive thru traffic and lights without touching the break padel?
Yep
How about transparancy notes. If the manufacturer enable you to do the reviews than this is not a review but an advertisement.
Awesome car! Audi is winning it these days.
only problem they are doing equal to Korean tech with Porsche pricing. For an acutual winter country the front light design alone makes them useless and a dealbreaker for me. All the snow will be gathered on the high beam. Same major design flaw is on the new Porsche Macan and also the Q6 e-tron.
Watch the video in its fullest and imagine the car wet or snowy. You basicaly have a nightmare of usability. Can't wait for a proper review in a northern country in the winter with snow. They laughs are gonna be long and loud.
I disagree. I bought an 77kWh VW ID3 new. Really well equipped. It cost me 46k before incentives. I was looking to buy a Hyundai Ioniq 5 with same size battery. They asked 60k for it!!
@ lol. Id3 and Ioniq5 is like comparing golf into a tucson.
@ you propably dont realize the fact that Kona is equal to ID3 and Ioniq 5 is equal to ID4/ID5 segment cars, but with EV tech way ahead of VW products. There is a proper reason for the price premium.
The DS N°8 may have longer range and a bigger boot, but it won’t charge nearly as fast (400V 160kW). So for really long drives, the A6 will probably get you at your holiday destination sooner. That said, if I could drive the DS°8 as a company car, I wouldn’t say no to it. I can’t drive Audis as a company car and even though I generally dislike them because of the type of driver they often attract, I wouldn’t say no to this A6 either.
Actually, I’ve since seen this Audi A6 at the BMS. I wasn’t impressed by it. I’m sure it’s a great car but it didn’t do it for me.
Airbus provides the photographic imagery. It's also there on google maps on your PC. Nothing unusual.
mate... it is far far far from being anything but ...very cool...20th century car :)
Andi best❤
Audi saw the BMW i4 three years ago and said "we need to make a car like that".
Wait until you drive the new NIO ET9 🤫🤫😇
SatNav:
The Polestar 2 has proper Android platform, with Google Maps, integrated into the car and will plan charge points, pre-heat battery etc. (I believe)
But this does look like a nice car, otherwise.
I would likely have the estate.
It will be interesting to see how BMW respond.
The mirrors reduce aerodynamic drag by up to 5%. At the speeds where that matters we are talking an overall drag reduction of 3-4%. 4% of say, real world 350 miles is 11 miles, not 3!
I checked my notes - Audi's official figures say the the camera mirrors add up to 7km of range. So 4.3 miles.
@@Electrifyingcom But that's at the low WLTP speeds. At highway speeds, and especially at Autobahn speeds, the difference is higher. This has been discussed at length for the i4 M50 that comes with a spoiler by default, but it can optionally be left out. Difference at higher speed is much more than the 7 km listed in BMW's configurator. I expect the same to be true for these mirrors.
I was going to get the A6, but it got delayed too much, so I ended up with a BMW i5.
I don’t like the lies about the range. For me range is only important on the motorways. And realistically you go from 80% till 10%. So on my BMW that is 300km in summer and 250km in the winter. So for the A6 I would keep a max of 400km in mind for summer driving and 330km in winter. Keep this in mind and you won’t be disappointed. Look at the 700km WLPT range and you’ll be really disappointed on your first ski trip or long drive.
If I were to order now I would get an A6 avant, the only question would be performance or Quattro (not S6).
Camera mirrors. Took me a couple of weeks to get used to them (e-tron 55), but now I don't want a car without them. Pitty car reviewers never get enough time to try out the cars properly before making recommendations.
Great car
Its a Audi nice outside plastic inside!
After their RS GT debacle, a car that broke down regularly and took months to repair because of a lack of engineers and parts. Let’s hope that this electric Audi actually works for more than a few months
You should have used an A6 sized piece of paper there...
It is at the end!
Why do I get a weird feeling that the video have special effects and that the car is digitally inserted in the video.
The front looks like the Hyundai Kona
Indeed it does!
Audi start's copy from Hyundai 😂
Everybody has copied the audio grill and design language
I can see why you’d say that. The white color especially gives you that idea but it really looks much less like a Kona than this video makes you think, especially if you go for another color. That said, have never owned an Audi or a Hyundai so what the heck do I know? 😉
Maybe a different color combo will look better