Pete. Your day job really comes through when you do the specialist type of review. Very good at talking the viewer through the experience.

I have just watched you grinning ear to ear driving that Integrale. Made my evening that. That noise.

Really enjoyed what is a very objective and honest view. I had the e-tron for a few days & couldn’t agree more. Fantastic in many ways, a couple of key drawbacks though. Best succinct review I’ve seen on this- thanks Pete.

Watched last night Peter and forgot to comment! Brilliant and honest review as always and some really interesting points about a motor that in my opinion is one of the best looking EVs around! Cheers buddy and keep up the great work!

Fantastic video Peter. Great review and very informative.

Really enjoy your vids and always look forward to your vids. Keep up the great work all the best

Evening Pete looking forward to this one.

I love everything about it.... Except the wheels lol. 👍👍 great review

Great review, mirrors I found really interesting.

Excellent & informative review. Brilliant.

Great video, very informative 👍

So pleased you mentioned the issue with camera mirrors. The fact you can’t change the angle you see by just moving your head makes them so dangerous. Surprised they put the screens for them so low on the doors too. Cracking review as always Ped!

Can’t imagine going on eBay or to a breaker’s yard asking for a replacing wing camera...

Epic video ped

That’s a really good point on the disastrous mirror tech 🤦🏽‍♂️ you’re right. It doesn’t move.. lenses get dirty...

Cameras blew my mind.Wing mirrors all day long for me Ped.👍

Nice honest review on this one Pete, Love the looks, the tech involved and just a great package, but, i would agree with you and the range of these cars are/ will be a big key selling point for the future of any brand. keep it up PP, great watch.

Awesome audi,pete, Stay safe

Great as always

Incredibly honest and interesting review Pete. Lovely car mate, and I’m sure Audi appreciate and will of course take onboard all feedback 👌👍

Good honest review as ever 👊🏿

A great balanced review Pedro. My sister has the regular (non sport-back) version of the same car and sees the same problem with range. You’ve rightly pointed out that building better infrastructure is going to be key for sorting out this vehicles shortcomings. Quite simply, there isn’t enough fast chargers out in the regions. Hopefully once we are through Covid, government and business can come together to build a world-leading national network. What a place to sit whilst you’re travelling though 🙂

Well presented again 👍🏎

Don't think I've been this early to a Ped post. #Goals

Another enjoyable Video Review. One of the best Electric SUVs

Evening Pete, looking forward to your thoughts on this.The colour red suits it👍

Love the colour !

Looking forward to this. I think electric isn't quite ready for me yet!!

Hello from the United States! Found your channel earlier this week and already am a huge fan!

A couple of years ago I toured the Highlands and Islands in a BMW Mini One. Memorable moments included sailing past Tesla’s who were clearly creeping around saving power whilst they tried to find a charge point. Now they had 250+ miles range. I saw a couple crawl into The Green Welly at Tyndrum. Can you imagine touring the Highlands in this Audi? You would need to wear a man nappy to even contemplate it😂 A great feature BTW.

Hi Peddlers, great vid & review! I completely agree with your view that a range of 180miles will put a lot of people off. We seriously considered the original e-tron, but the test drive car showed a range of just 170 miles and we couldn’t stop thinking, £70k+ for a car that will barely do 2hrs on motorway before we’d need to stop and charge!

Audi are doing well with the electrification so far. The new E-Tron GT is stunning but they need to improve the range. Great video Pete.

I agree about the mirrors. I also agree about the range it has to be 300 or better before I would consider a vehicle.

Great Review! I’m not a huge fan of the e-tron, but love the e-tron GT!

Love the idea of rear view cameras, your insights re how good they aren't ( depth perception, 2d effect) were not something I had previously considered. Think I'll be sticking with mirrors for the foreseeable future..Thanks for the info Ped!

Great video, winter time with plenty of cold weather, how does the heaters cope, obviously electric therfore power usage. I have heard from artic drivers with cameras, same issues in wet and dark.

The classic phrase, "less is more", should be translated in automotive terms to, "less COSTS more!", almost invariably!!!

Totally agree! The range on EV's is the first thing I look at

Brilliant looking car and I like the fact it just looks like an Audi rather then being different for different sake. 👍🏻

Incredibly eloquent and accurate assessment of current charging infrastructure. Basically there are two segments to the market. Tesla, where if you have one of their cars you never ever have to worry about range or lack of charging, and the rest. However, for many of us we could count on one hand the number of 300 mile one day road trips were do. I charge our model 3 to circa 150 miles range once a week. That is all we need. Times are changing and our perceptions and expectations need to align with them. J

It’s just too bloody big!! All the tech in the world cant hide the fact it is a monster of a car which will require huge batteries and big electric motors. Defies the whole point of the “green brief”. Beautifully made as always but.... well not for me (I’ll never bloody afford one anyway). Great review as always; thank you 🙏

Thanks for the video, very honest and realistic. I'm a great fan of electric and hybrid vehicles and am considering all electric. Skoda Enyaq, VW ID4 are both strong contenders. I did test drive the Peugeot e2008 which was a good car to drive but the range was hugely disappointing. The range has to be 250 miles plus to make sense for me. I'm sure the technology is coming... :)

Great video as usual!👍🏻 when is the other video out you mention?

Great review as always Pete. Lots to like I’m sure, but not for me even if the purse would stretch.

Very nice car and good, honest revue. I agree, the range and infrastructure are deal-breakers.

Nice motor Pete, but I am with you on the mirrors. I wouldn't want to park it in a town centre on a Friday/Saturday night, those mirrors would be a target.Keep up the good work mate.

Checking in to be in the draw, I'll watch and enjoy later!

Great looking car I think

Hi Ped Excellent review. As an Audi man love lots about this car, exterior, interior, dash & screens great improvement, not keen on the wheel design (minor personal preference). Cameras to replace wing mirrors definite No No, big distraction and possibly dangerous😬😬 Range, infrastructure, and cost big negative. Guess we are on same wavelength wit this one. Good to see the Pups being sensible🥰

Challenging with those wing mirrors , would love to see a polestar comparison

EV vehicles are still nowhere close to being a genuine replacement for combustion engine cars. I should know as I have owned 3 Nissan Leafs over 6 years. Infrastructure is hopeless and expensive to use.

Love the video, for me 300 miles is what I want, I could live with 250 miles at a push but the infrastructure for chargers need to be a lot better and until it is I will not change. hopefully within the next 2-3 years it will get a lot better and with newer tech on batteries maybe 300+ miles will be achievable.

Evening everyone, hope you’ve survived this freezing cold week safely. Beautiful looking car , good you got to do lots of miles to really get to know her !

The other thing that no one mentions on range is that you will not drive 175m on a charge, you will start getting warnings at about 145 miles and will probably stop at 155 ish. As you state that is not enough!

Great review, interesting about the mirrors, but I can see what you mean! also the new E-tron GT have reverted to some key buttons, so maybe a slight change in future design as the touch screen for changing heating and other key peripherals while moving is changing due to customer pressure?

Hi all!! hope everyone is doing well and staying healthy! Been looking forward to this one. I think range for electric cars is a big thing for a lot in the USA 🇺🇸. I’d say for me personally it has to be 275 minimum during winter with a max during warm weather around 325 to 350 before I’d really consider electric. Definitely not a fan of the mirrors or price wow 😳. But as always a fantastic review Sir Pete!!

Good evening everyone. Certainly not a fan of the wing cameras & I wish I could get into these electric cars but I can't. Great review/video as always though.

Wife's first comment was, what's happened to the mirrors, they look like they have been knocked off! I wouldn't spec them personally. But I agree with you, range is the big issue there! Great honest review mate

Kia e Nero is excellent. I get 260 miles in summer and around 220 in this really cold weather. No wonder it was a best seller in Jan 2021.

Great presentation Pete. Having had wing mirrors knocked off in the past, I wondered how deep my pockets would have to be to replace a camera unit vs a piece of glass. Hmmm. I think that battery technology and range will be akin to what we saw with the evolution of the petrol engine... albeit over a shorter period of time.

Very good honest review, hard to see how the even lower capacity Etron 50 works at such a huge a price v it’s range ability. Standard mirrors a must!! Tesla need the Model Y in Europe ASAP!

Where I live it was -28 degrees Fahrenheit this morning. My neighbor, who owns two Teslas, came out dressed like a Arctic explorer. He doesn't have the ability to charge at work and if he uses the heat enough for comfort he doesn't have the range to do his work roundtrip. I have a similar commute in a ICE vehicle. Just start it , turn on the heated seats and steering wheel, and drive it a few minutes and I can use all the heat I want.

It’s a no from me and that was before I heard the price.

Having driven a few of these e-tron's now, I can completely agree with your view on the camera wing mirrors. Personally, I think they're a complete waste of money, and for reverse parking I found them very difficult to judge proximity to anything really. Well done for pointing it out to all your viewers, I think the idea should be dropped really, or maybe we could have a pop-up mirror just for reversing? Who knows.

10:03 - "If you want to do lots of miles, this is a brilliant car to do it in." Err ... no it's not, if you have to stop for a few hours after 180 miles. That makes half the country unavailable to me. Absolute deal-breaker.

Great video again! Did look at the e-tron as the potential next car but as you say, with a poor infrastructure, I’m one of those nervous about the jump to EV and, for such a big SUV style car, I can’t quite see how this car works based on real world figures. ID3/4, Enyaq or Q4 style cars (if the latter can exceed 300 miles on a charge) seem to be the potential game changers (not sure about the build quality on the latest VWs though). E-tron GT looks interesting, but too pricey (although I heard a rumour about a mini e-tron GT, the GTS? Allegedly an S5 style offering which’d be very interesting indeed and possibly could coax me out of the S4). Here’s hoping for a change of pace in EV development from the mainstream manufacturers as you say in your video. Well done again, a good honest review!

Hi Pete Keep warm

I'm old enough to know what a mile is (I have to, I drive a 1958 Morris Minor 1000!) and I can easily convert km into miles and vice versa. When reviewing EVs , however, it would probably be helpful for most people living outside the UK, if you could state range figures in both kilometres and miles. Other than that, your review is brilliant! - I think the battery technology in EVs still has along way to go before I'd ever consider making the switch to electric (although we may all be forced to adopt EVs, eventually). For the time being, however, I think I'll be happily relying on the 948cc's of raw internal combustion power in my Morrie to get me about town.

Great review!! Totally agree that range and charging infrastructure are the negatives to ev ownership and you can see why that most people go for Tesla over other manufacturers due to the supercharger network

Evening Ped and Peddlers hope your all well :) from a snowy Cumbria

As always an honest review of the car in question. That is the biggest problem for me with ev at the moment, range. I do 140 miles round trip to and from work, and for the amount of money this thing costs it is just not there for yet.

Pete excellent review , did it snow whilst you had the car, if so how does a EV manage with snow?

Great and sensible review. By the way, the Honda E implementation of cameras for mirrors is much better the way Audi do it

Nice open review PP. The mirrors are a terrible idea, at that press car price I'll have an A8 TDI thanks very much. Cheers. Chris

Didn’t get chance to watch entire video last night, 100% agree, whilst electric looks like it will be the future for now but as its a 250mile round trip to my parents I really need a car with a range of 300+ miles and also a car that doesnt cost £100k

As an Etron launch edition owner I have to say you have absolutely nailed it in this review - basically an awsome car in every respect EXCEPT terribly dissapointing range and pointless tech on the door mirrors. You basically have to own an ICE car as an alternative for longer journeys (luckily my wifes 4.2 V8 Cayenne does nicely for these LOL)

Instinctively I thought the mirror cameras looked like a bad idea. I'm glad you have called it out. I feel at the moment we are in a phase with new cars where manufacturers can do some really clever tech. However just, because you can do it doesn't mean to say you should. The touch screens are getting a bit much and the latest Golf for example with touch sensitive steering wheel controls are just silly.

Another great review. The only thing I struggle with is the need for such big range from BEV’s? To achieve these ranges they will need batteries that are huge therefore heavy and extraordinary expensive, putting these cars further out of reach in monitory terms. As a man of a certain age my bladder determines my drive time in the car, with careful consideration I can tie this in with a charge stop therefore the perceived lack of range is not perhaps the issue we think it is.

Great insight to the world of electric cars. Personally I have an hybrid which is obviously the best of both, it’s going to be a sorry sight when we are all fully electric.

‘Weighs about the same as a small moon’ 😂. Great comment. Understand your disappointment with the range. The U.K. weather certainly makes a difference. Most Petrol cars have a range of 300 miles now, that may be why people expect that from an electric car. Fascinating review though. We do wish MINI would build a fully electric Countryman or Clubman

I wouldn’t spec the cameras either. Can’t beat proper mirrors.

Great review of a car I could not live with at all. The range is completely inadequate. The range during our 6 months of winter would be even worse, and that is not counting the drag from plowing through snow, nor the electrical draw for lights, heaters, seat heater, and wipers needed in a snow storm. In an average year we see a few nights of -40. Your +2 is what we consider a warm winter day.

Ive had my e tron 55 for 1.5 years now, fully specced with normal side mirrors. Truely great car. I drive in norway where it can get very cold and usually lots of snow. It just digs through everything. Nightvision and matrix leds are so good when driving in very dark areas, and i have never had range anxiety. We are very fortunate with charging infrastructure here in Norway. There are free public chargers everywhere, so even if you dont have a home charger you can get a full charge in ~8 hours. The 150kw+ network is also very good, no matter where you drive, there will be fast chargers. Ice cars are completely priced out here too, cars usually cost 2-3 times more here than anywhere else. So ev ownership is a no-brainer

Hi Pete, for someone like you who does a fair amount of distance traveling for work I am sure the limited range is a major concern. Agree that for that type and level of quality vehicle a definite increase in range should be offered

I'm sure it's mentioned elsewhere but any electric car costing over £35,000 doesn't qualify now for a grant - so add a few more thousand onto the price of these

Well done Pete, I'll have to wait till you can get a big family wagon for not big money before I'll go electric.

Great review, I’m looking at the Q4 .. Are you doing this car anytime soon?

I have an excellent rear view camera on my e-golf. But 30yrs of using my mirrors is far more superior than trying to use a rear view camera. It's only good to see how close you are to a wall of high kerb at your rear.

Watching ped and eating a Balti, lovely

I like idea of those wing mirrors, not sure about the styling of them

One of my trucking friends said identical issue with the Merc. Dark, wet along with headlights, also sunshine on a wet road behind you, the screens can’t take the glare.

Great video Pete, I for one will not be going electric either with my next car or in ten years time. I think anyone would be insane to fork out nearly 90k on this Audi. Manufacturers need to think about the fact that the majority of customers can only spend a maximum of a third of what this car costs and so most of the decent electric cars on the market are out of reach of the majority of buyers!!! An AMG V8 for me next I think. 👍👍

Well Peter, it might be the EV to buy at the moment but I’m not yet sold on the whole idea...we are just not ready and the range on that car is hopeless...how can you pay £89,000 and yet be unable to drive more than 70/80 miles away from home so for me, my day out in Sidmouth with range anxiety taunting me all the way home. I can’t buy that. Then heating...today was -2C with a biting wind...I was on a farm this morning and my fingers were freezing whilst taking some pictures...but my faithful tDiscovery Sport welcomed me with warm heated seats, heated windscreen, a powerful heater and that luxury beyond words, a heated steering wheel...and 42mpg to help me on my way. Now the D/Sport is outlawed in a few years time BUT it does what i and everybody else wants...EV’s are a long way off that ability. The wing mirrors....a crazy idea like too many touch screens...such technology has a place but not in the act of controlling a car....manoeuvring maybe but driving, no thank you..just ridiculous and unsafe...plus mighty tempting for any passing yob to snap off for fun and replacements?...£2000 each I would guess plus paintwork! The Audi is very good.....but it needs all those improvements you describe...sort that and then we are able to think again! Stay safe...wear gloves...delay the Tesla!! 🥶🥶😨😱😱😃😃😃😃😃Richard.

Like your honest input no sales pitch. Just a good review with your experience. You know I am not sure why they call these cars EV. They are battery cars just like my kids toy but my kids car when it runs out of juice we just change it to another recharged battery in no time flat so it never runs out of fun.

I'm sure it must have been difficult to like everything about a new vehicle, electric vehicles are not something I'm into right now but time will come when choice is not a option , you done a fair appraisal of the whole vehicle and as we go down this route hopefully the range will be improved time will tell,😊😊👍

The gripe I’ve got isn’t purely the range, it’s the charging time. We used to drive to the alps as a family - we used to take our 4.0 litre petrol jeep Cherokee. 20 mpg on a good day, 15mpg if you were lucky at 80 mph fully loaded with a roof box. I think on one tank aiming for an early ferry we saw 12mpg - about 200 miles brimmed to fumes. Thing is, when we came off the ferry at 10pm English time, there’s no way you want to have to spend 30-4t minutes charging the thing up - you just want to stop, squirt the go-go juice in in and pay in less than 5 minutes and head home for a pint of hogs back best and a kip. Plus this three petrol stops which accounted for 30 minutes of the journey through France - they’d add another 90-120 minutes to the journey. So to catch that ferry, we’d have missed an hour and a half of skiing in the most glorious powder. So yep, therell be an a6 all road in our barn for the road trips for years to come!

Get those mirrors broken off and you’ll need a mortgage to replace one 😂 And come 2030 there will be still millions of ICE cars out there and the second hand car market will be booming. Don’t forget that the government will want their pound of flesh once people convert to EV. Pay per mile could be just the start of clawing back lost revenue and people’s electricity bills will be far dearer as you’d need to charge your car every night if not most nights. EV ownership won’t be as cheap as one would think in my humble opinion.

How's your BEV project going? Driving Tesla nowadays? Thanks for the review. Planning to replace ID3 soon with used E-tron Sportback.

I enjoyed your review and, as an etron S Sportback owner, I must agree with everything you said. Range is even worse in the S variant; with a battery charged at 100% and -9 degrees Celsius, I’ve got 234km... Virtual mirrors are something I regretted adding, it’s innovation that brings no added value. Have a lot of discussions with our common friend Simon as I know he likes them :-) Gonna address the virtual mirrors issues on a video on my channel soon. Keep it up! 👍🏼

The legacy manufacturers could easily get bigger range but they don't want too at this moment.They have so much invested in ICE engines, transmissions and the factories they are produced in etc they don't want to sell them in massive numbers until nearer the time when they are forced to go all BEV and Hybrid.