{"id":50412,"date":"2023-12-04T16:20:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T16:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highwaytale.com\/?p=50412"},"modified":"2023-12-04T16:20:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T16:20:06","slug":"2024-audi-sq8-e-tron-has-more-epa-range-but-is-still-an-electron-guzzler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highwaytale.com\/car-reviews\/2024-audi-sq8-e-tron-has-more-epa-range-but-is-still-an-electron-guzzler\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 Audi SQ8 E-Tron Has More EPA Range But Is Still An Electron Guzzler"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2024 Audi SQ8 e-tron and Audi SQ8 Sportback e-tron are the performance-oriented, tri-motor versions of the Audi Q8 e-tron and Audi Q8 Sportback e-tron models, which this year replaced the 2023 Audi e-tron, Audi e-tron Sportback, Audi S e-tron and Audi e-tron S Sportback.<\/p>\n

Aside from the new name, the latest generation of the electric Q8 and SQ8 has been equipped with a much higher capacity battery pack of 114 kilowatt-hours (106 kWh usable), compared to about 95 kWh in the original e-tron (up 20% or 19 kWh), which substantially increases the driving range.<\/p>\n

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Audi SQ8 e-tron<\/p>\n

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Audi SQ8 Sportback e-tron<\/p>\n

However, the recently published EPA energy consumption rating reveals that the Audi SQ8 e-tron and Audi SQ8 Sportback e-tron remain relatively hungry for electrons, especially with the optional fancy 22-inch wheels.<\/p>\n

The EPA Combined range of the SQ8 e-tron is 253 miles (about a fifth more than in the case of the previous generation of S e-tron), although it goes down to 218 miles when the larger wheels are selected:<\/p>\n