I am in the same boat, thinking about to sell my 90D and buy a Audi E-tron. My local Audi dealer will receive one in the next week, looking forward to check it out.
Also, dont forget the 150kW charging. An engineer from Fastned confirmed it will be able to charge with 150kW all the way up to 80%! (
Roland van der Put on Twitter)
Compared with the Model X (or even the S), which will taper rather fast after 50-60%, I think the E-Tron will be a better roadtrip vehicle. Charging networks (CCS) are coming up fast in Europa now. IONITY started building 18 new stations in only 2 weeks (
IONITY EU) and Fastned is also deploying those 175kW chargers pretty fast (
Fastned - only Dutch though)!
+ Cheaper than Model X
+ Interior is way, way better.
+ CarPlay + Waze
+ Better service, dont have to wait ~ 6-7 months for parts anymore
- Model X looks better (opinion)
- Model X has ~ 5-10% better efficiency, but Audi has 150kW charging up to 80%. Curious to see the math on this which one will be faster for roadtripping.
There is one e-Tron exposed last week in Zurich so had the chance to have a look at it. I am coming from an Audi A6 and have now a S75D.
This is really typical Audi interior, so if you like it, you will not be disappointed. I would have to point the difference but it really look like almost identical to the Audi A6 or A7 interior (the new generation).
There is good and bad to this Audi typical interior. Obviously, if you like old fashion interior, this look as amazing as every Audi but it is quite a confusing interior compared to a Tesla. Many buttons are replaced by on-screen buttons but it remains full of (tactile) button everywhere and is really not that user friendly.
For instance, the Tesla GPS is super clear with just one search field. And if you click on the screen, you see the options of showing the traffic / Google Earth and Supercharger but on the Audi, this is plenty of buttons on the small 10" screen, including some redundant one like zoom (why do you need on-screen button if the screen is tactile?).
And every operations still take 2 or 3 times more steps than on a Tesla. Nothing new under the sun here anyway.
2 points though: here in Switzerland, the setup presented, full options was 120kCHF which is roughly 110k$ if you remove the 8% VAT.
Even if you remove things like the big wheel and opening roof, it means 115kCHF. In comparison, a S75D similarly equipped is 92k§CHF so the
Audi is 25% more expensive. This is MASSIVE.
Also, this is in NO WAY comparable to a X. Interior is really similar to a Q5 and cargo space is surpringly small. I doubt you have more than 500-550l available (a tiny stuff on the front maybe to put a charging cable?).
Also, the rear middle seat is hard (arm rest), has suprinsigly a bump (although there is no need for a transmission tunnel) and no space to put the feet below the air vent.
My conclusion is that it is
really more a 4 seats car and
seems really derived from an ICE platform.
Without speaking of the lack of fast charging infrastructure (coming, i know but still 2-3 years from comparing with Tesla), which should put the Audi in good situation with 150kW charging, the
autonomy on the highway seems to be
under 320km at 130km/h.
It means that it really
compare to a S75D for long trip, based on the range and charging speed (charging faster but having >25% higher consumption as well).
Bottom line: the conclusion is that you can pick up a S75D with existing fast charging network, years of experience from others, and continuous OTA, or you can get a smaller 4 seater Audi for 25% more with the only difference being that it looks like your ICE Audi, and that will obviously depreciate much much more (because of no OTA update and limited range).
I think that you need to put a pretty huge preference and biais toward legacy Audi interior to swallow the huge offering ratio difference.
