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Audi E-Tron Gets Lower Than Expected 204-Mile EPA Range Rating

• codeulike 7y ago
  That's with a 95kwh battery. Turns out building EVs is not so easy.
  • clouddrover 7y ago
    But only 83 kwh available for use. As mentioned in the article, the battery is over-provisioned to increase its longevity and to enable faster charging. The Audi e-tron SUV can maintain a 150 kilowatt charge rate up to 80% state of charge, which no other current EV can do: https://support.fastned.nl/hc/en-gb/articles/115015420127-175-kW-fast-chargers https://support.fastned.nl/hc/en-gb/articles/115015420127-17... Not even the Tesla Model 3 on the new Tesla V3 chargers: https://electrek.co/2019/03/07/tesla-v3-supercharger-action-first-look/ https://electrek.co/2019/03/07/tesla-v3-supercharger-action-... The e-tron's main problem is that it's too heavy for the battery it has. Every version of the Tesla Model X, for example, weighs less than the e-tron.
    • codeulike 7y ago
      Also that 12 kWh of unused battery will be quite heavy
• thefounder 7y ago
  Pretty disappointing. It will be a niche car like BMW I3/I8