It's a Guinness record: Electric Audi walked 1,338 km with one charge

As serial specifications do not indicate this possibility, but the Audi A6 Sportback e-tron fully electric achieved a Guinness world record: traveled 1,338 kilometers with one battery charge.

It's a far greater distance than 777 km combined announced, in a feat that counted on the pilot Miko Marczyk as the conductor of occasion, on september 11th.

The rally pilot traveled through Poland on a round trip route around the Vistula River to the Baltic Sea, achieving an energy consumption of 7.09 kWh/100 km. The journey took 45 hours, ending between Torun and Ciechocinek.,

No facilities were sought: the A6 was used under normal traffic conditions, including high-end hours traffic and temperatures that came down to 7oC (the average temperature was 15oC).

How was that possible?

If the WLTP autonomy for which the Audi A6 Sportback e-tron is approved is 777 km, how is it possible to do more than 1,300 with one load? Miko Marczyk specializes in making the most of the efficiency of an automobile, even having tips to share – how to take good advantage of regenerative braking or check tyre pressure. 

On the other hand, it had car technology based on the Premium Platform Electric platform (PPE), whose battery has 94.9 kWh of useful capacity. In about 95 percent of all daily braking situations, there is regenerative braking – with power recovery power reaching 220 kW. There is also a low aerodynamic coefficient (0,21) in that which is announced as the most aerodynamic Audi ever.

“It was a pleasant surprise”

Miko Marczyk© Audi AG  

In a statement, Miko Marczyk commented: “For the record attempt, I conducted the Audi A6 Sportback e-tron performance. The car offers 367 hp and accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in 5.4 seconds. Its battery has a useful capacity of 94.9 kWh, complemented by an exceptionally low aerodynamic coefficient. There is enormous potential here. Even for me, reaching the 1,338 kilometers was a pleasant surprise“.