Audi E-tron - Third Report Fast Charge While We Have A Coffee Leaves Us Full Of Beans

At the double John checks his phone while using the fast charger at Cranford to top up our e-tron

THERE comes a point in every spell of ownership where you like to think you’ve managed to exploit your car’s potential to the full. And that’s precisely how I now feel about our Audi e-tron.

If you’re expecting to hear of me barrelling down a country lane in 2.6 tonnes of SUV, or maxing Audi’s electric model on a stretch of autobahn or one of Auto Express’s drag race videos, you’re going to be disappointed. And yet the picture above is clear evidence of me using every scrap of the e-tron’s potential.

That’s because while we’ve shown you photos of the e-tron charging before, it has generally been operating at a maximum of 50kW, or considerably less when it’s parked outside my house. But the unit onboard the vehicle itself is capable of up to 150kW.