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2020 eTron 55 purchase

2.7K views 13 replies 7 participants last post by  Logicpro8  
#1 ·
Hi all,

We’ve been looking at a used eTron to make the jump to EV. The car has a quoted range of 237 miles but when we test drove it it stated 117 miles on 87% charge. It’s 6c here at the moment, and I know it’s been sat in the garage for a while with minimal drives other than the odd test drive but even with those considerations the GOM range seems particularly low. Am I worrying unnecessarily?
 
#3 ·
Is "quoted range of 237 mi" the WLTP estimate? With my 2019 etron quattro 55 and my current Q8 etron, I find the US EPA range numbers a much better estimate of the range. The EPA range for the 2020 etron quattro 55 is 218 mi.....237 is WAY too optimistic, I think. A 15% range reduction due to temp would bring that 218 down to 185mi at 100%. 87% of 185 would be 160 mi, so your 117 mi seems low to me.
 
#4 ·
It’s such a risk, we love the car but don’t want to be lumbered with such low range if it’s accurate. I’m going to head back up today and check the cars current kWh/mile to see if that is unusually high due to the way it’s been used whilst sat on the forecourt. I just don’t know what I can do about checking it in any other way and need to be closer to 200 than the dash range suggests
 
#6 ·
You could ask them to do a battery health check (an Audi franchise did one for me when I was looking at a used GT). Bear in mind their check doesn't give you an exact figure, just that it remains above a minimum threshold of 70%.

Probably comparing apples with pears as I'm in a RS GT (but my previous GT was similar'ish range wise). 117miles range on an 87% charge does seem low at 6 degrees so could well be a function of time on the forecourt as you say... Can't say for certain as no experience with that car but for reference my RS is consistently at 180'ish miles with 80% charge and that's been across the winter.
 
#12 ·
Hey folks. Seeing 198-mile range here in Scotland with a 55 Launch Edition is about 6- 7C this week. I do longish trips, 80-100 miles, but It's like driving about with a quarter fuel tank in the 55; thankfully, in some places in Fife, Scotland, offer public rapid charging as cheap as £0.15p a KW still.

A few weeks back, it was 11C (I know the sun was out...shock) 100% charge showed 212 miles after AC charging, but the week before, it was colder, and I did a 100% DC charge, and the car showed under 200 miles again. AC-DC causing an issue? likely, like Kia, Audi must protect the battery at DC speeds like Kia do.

At under 50mph. I bet I could get somewhere is the region of 250 miles range from the e-Tron; some tips into town use hardly any power at all, drive 5 miles, and the car uses like 2-3 miles range. My past 2021 Kia EV6 was about the same, I'm lucky if I got 230 miles range out of it.
 
#13 ·
I've not done much DC charging but someone will probably know, I'm assuming when you DC charge it's warming the batt more as putting in more energy so then the car reports more range for 100% as its assuming you're about to drive it immediately. As the batt is warmer Vs getting to a 100% Via AC lower amperage the car in theory could do more range if you set off immediately. Possibly would then report a lesser range the next day once batts have cooled back down?

I have no idea and just a theory as it's easier for electrons to move and in theory would be more efficient when in a warmer state.
 
#14 ·
We also have an e-208 in our house, the wife's car, a great little thing, does 190ish miles in town/city. Costs £3 or something to charge at home but Peugeot, the e-208 does a weird thing, it balances the battery of you leave it plugged into AC (never on DC) Some cars need regular 100% to rebalance the cells to give more range, DC charging is bad for cells lowers miles. So is the e-Trin balancing its battery on AC giving more range?