I'm glad you raised this issue, although I may have a service issue. The dealership informs me over and over that the low mileage I see on a full charge is due to the car reflecting my driving style. I believe this is a dodge; I am a relatively conservative driver and never try to see how fast I can go compared to other electric cars. Here are my statistics:
1) Delivery Date - 5/11/2019
2) Model - 2019 Edition One
3) Initial Range - 150 Miles
4) Current Mileage - 9796 miles
5) Current 100% Charge - 161 miles
6) Drive Mode - Comfort (w/ AC turned off the range extends to 168 Miles
I am disappointed that the car does not live up to the advertised EPA range of 204 miles. If it did, I would feel that I got what I paid for. The 95 kwhr battery should be more than capable of delivering the mileage advertised.
My life is further complicated with several co-workers who drive Tesla's that get nearly 300 miles on smaller batteries.
My perspective is further complicated because I am in the energy business. I am fortunate to own a 10 MW-40 MWhr lithium ion energy storage facility. If upon delivery that plant were only capable of delivering less than 79% of the stated output, the OEM and EPC contractors would have had to correct the problem and/or make restitution. I paid a little over $89k for the car. For a 21% refund (~$19k), I would be satisfied.
For the record I love Audis, this is our 4th, and I do enjoy driving it. Unfortunately, the range issue has me limiting my driving to short city trips. As charging station built becomes more extensive hopefully there will be less of a concern, but I would like Audi to fix the issue on my e-tron.
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I hope you don't mind but can I make a suggestion?
I had a bit of a drop of when I first had the car (mine is the later version though so + 20 miles) within a month it was only showing 185 on a full charge, since then. I have changed my driving and changed a lot of others things too. Now I am back at around 230 - I know I can get it higher if I tried a bit more but can confidently say I understand the way mine works now.
This is what I did, A heads up it took a month to get the range back up though and it did mean a fair bit of dedication.
I did this just to see if it was actually true what Audi said to me. Firstly I am not ruling out that your car may have a problem. Just that I had also a dramatic drop in range 255 down to 180-185 at 100%
I also did all this as an experiment and was interested to see the results, Obviously not why we bough these cars, but at least it would prove me right. "Audi are lying and I have a duff car" I'll show them! Well you will see I was somewhat surprised.
Anyway might be with a try:
I ran the car down to 2 mile range (Yep it was stressful!)
Set CHARGE RANGE TO 100%
Fully charged it: Range 180 (Honestly)
Reset long and short memory.
Put car into Efficiency mode before moving the car at all on every drive.
Put car into Range mode (not sure you have to do the above step but just my routine)
I did all the above every time I got in the car.
Air conditioning always off (sun roof tilt open was fine for me) Or window open a bit.
Then I just drove the car like a grandad, I used the drive assist 99% of the time.
With range mode on the car would only do 50 MPH in a 70 area, this was a bit rubbish being sat on a motorway in the slow lane doing 50! But I was going to show Audi!
The car is fully restricted in range mode, but you can kick down to make a sudden move, and I did this a few times when I got fed up on a motorway - I soon remembered it was an experiment and moved back into the slow lane.
I also used the regeneration (left slow down paddle) every time I needed to slow down, I still rarely use the foot break still. Having a Tesla taught me to one foot / peddle drive. But I prefer the way you can choose to do it with the Paddles on the Etron.
You can set it to drive like a Tesla:
IE: When you take your foot of the gas it slows down using the regeneration.
Just in case you don't know,
You set it to Efficiency mode in the MMI (Manual Mode) and then use the left paddle to set it to level 1 or 2. This is then identical to the way the Tesla drives. At least with the Etron you can turn this of and coast if you choose a lot quicker, just by tapping the left paddle up or down, from coast mode to regeneration mode.
I am currently using this mode as an experiment to see if that is better range than coasting the car. Although I do prefer to coast and I reckon is more efficient, thats for another post.
I then noticed strait away that my range was improving (Obvious I know) But I mean a lot.
EG: The range would say 150 Miles and I would do 3 Miles and it would say range 151 so I had not only driven 3 miles but gained + 1 mile and so on.
I always drove with the dashboard showing my long range so I could see the range I had covered (Remember I had reset it to zero) I would be encouraged to keep my driving style based on "This is an experiment" I am training the car!
I found I would constantly be adding up the range I had left and the range I had covered to give me what the car should charge to when this full charge was empty. it was actually really fun, I would find myself using the assist drive more or not if my range was not working as well without, just keeping an eye on the range usage in real time,.
(The round green circle on the left)n I would always try and have the needle on the bottom or even better in minus - IE: adding range with regeneration.
It is entirely possible to drive with the car at 50 MPH and use hardly any energy. (Its an experiment!)
Then I noticed the range change a lot again:
I would have 120 Miles and set of nice and easy drive 4 miles and it was not losing any range, then it may go up and down a mile or two on hills etc. Sometimes I would get 15 Miles and lose 3 miles, This was because I generating a lot at some points and the car was learning my driving style and rewarding me!
So lets move on:
I continued with this for the whole 1st charge and ran it down to 2 miles again.
2nd charge it went up to exactly the number of my recorded long range memory + 2 miles which was left, this was obviously higher than the last charge.
I did exactly the same but was even more committed and watched as I added up the range left to the range I had covered and enjoyed playing the game of "How can I gain more on the next charge"
In my experience every time I charge the car it adds the range left to the long term memory used (I reset after every charge) and I generally get within a mile of the full charge in the range.
All in all I drained the battery down to within 5 miles 4 times! Driving the way above each time and making sure I reset the short and long term memory each time.
I was at 245 Miles after this experiment, I then noticed one day I had 130 miles left on the battery range and noticed the long rage used was 135 miles, thats a massive change form my 180 -185 miles I was getting on a full charge consistently before.
I reckon I could of carried on and got even more, but I was now a bit bored of it all so I popped it back on charge at 130 miles and yep it almost added the long range used to the range left and I got a final 100% charge range of - 260 Miles.
Ok so its a brutal not ideal way to drive a car, but now as you can see form my original post on this thread on the screen shot of the dash board I am now at 230 Mile range.
So after so training the car and changing the way "I drive the car" Its gone from a disappointing consistent 180 -185 to 225-235 (Normal driving ) That an average on a 40 mile improvement and at one point I had improved it by 80 Miles! Fact; All only by changing the way I drive the car,
This is as per the setting also as above, All in all if I drive the car "Normally" Using the AC sometimes but not very often (Which I prefer the window open a bit or the roof tilted) Have it in efficiency mode I get 225 miles easily.
Obviously If I am out and want to push my range I now know how, If I drive it in dynamic like a boy racer, using launch control at every stop to 70 MPH with the windows open and AC on then Ill get 150 If I am lucky!
I also no longer drive in the slow lane doing 50 in a 70 either, I enjoy the car and do around the speed limit (officer😉)
I drive it and enjoy it, Like I said I have had Both the Model S and Model X. They are awesome range cars, but the Audi Etron is an awesome car. It's an Audi and you know that when you drive it, it's build quality is still the best out of any car companies IMO. Its a electric car and a bloody brilliant one built by a car company, the Tesla is a car built by a battery company that is learning how to improve self driving and range, The Etron is an amazing electric car with style and one of the best interiors they have ever made.
Obviously I am biased as I own one, but I also have had Tesla and thats a fact. Unless Tesla start to build cars like Audi I know where my money is.
Let us know how you get on and if you do try the same experiment make sure you are committed to treating it like just that "a range experiment" You can at least go back to Audi and tell them what you have done, but you need to be honest with your self and I guess you may have not tried "All the suggested ways to get range"
We need to remember all electric car companies, openly tell us "you need to adapt the way you drive an electric car"
They are different and need to be driven differently.
Good luck!
