We give our final verdict on Audi's thoroughly updated SQ8 e-Tron
I’ve spent seven months ripping on the SQ8 for its rubbish efficiency, user-unfriendly digital mirrors, unreliable charging and other niggles. But every sinner deserves a shot at redemption, so we’re heading out of Crickhowell for the Black Mountains to give the SQ8 one last chance to shine.is a wide load, then the grey stone houses thin and we climb through ferns and pass boulders deposited millennia ago.
This facelifted car benefits from a revised steering rack with delightful fluidity, directness and weighting. The brake pedal is up there with any EV’s: meaty first contact segue ways into prodigious stopping, or chuck in one or two paddleshift clicks approaching a corner for the regenerative braking to trim your speed.
Despite the massive 106kWh battery, the fully-charged SQ8 projects a range of about 200 miles in winter and 240 in summer. That short range is down to poor efficiency – an average of 2.1 miles per kWh over its 7775 miles with us. The route planning is good: constantly surfacing your nearest charging options and calculating charge remaining at your destination.
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