Audi A6 e-tron Sets EV Distance Record of 1,338 Kilometers on Single Charge

Audi's A6 Sportback e-tron has set a Guinness World Record for distance traveled by a production electric vehicle on a single charge, logging 1,338 kilometers across Poland. Driven by reigning European Rally Champion Miko Marczyk, the run achieved an average consumption rate of 7.09 kWh per 100 kilometers, according to reporting from The Next Web (https://thenextweb.com/news/audi-a6-etron-1338km-record).

The distance surpasses the vehicle's official 777-kilometer Worldwide Harmonized Light Vehicles Test Procedure (WLTP) rating by 72 percent. The run beats the prior record set in July last year by a Lucid Air Grand Touring, which covered 1,205 kilometers from St. Moritz to Munich against a 960-kilometer WLTP rating.

Marczyk departed at 1:55 a.m. on September 11, driving the Vistula route to Hel on the Baltic coast and back through Krakow and Warsaw in regular traffic. The journey lasted more than 45 hours. While Audi did not publish an average speed, the time and distance yield an average pace under 30 kilometers per hour.

The A6 Sportback e-tron generates 367 horsepower, accelerates from zero to 100 kilometers per hour in 5.4 seconds, and carries a 100 kWh battery pack with 94.9 kWh of usable capacity. The model features a drag coefficient of 0.21, which Audi cites as the lowest of any car it has built. Aerodynamic drag accounts for roughly 40 percent of the vehicle's consumption on the standard WLTP cycle, according to the manufacturer.

The vehicle is the second model built on Premium Platform Electric (PPE), an 800-volt architecture developed jointly by Audi and Porsche within Volkswagen Group. The platform also underpins Porsche's Cayenne Electric and Bentley's Torcal. The system uses regenerative braking for roughly 95 percent of routine braking events, recovering energy at up to 220 kW.

Audi is deploying similar efficiency targets in smaller vehicles, including the Ingolstadt-built A2 e-tron, which claims 12.8 kWh per 100 kilometers and a 646-kilometer WLTP range while exceeding European small-car size limits by 12 centimeters. The WLTP benchmark, which replaced the NEDC testing cycle across Europe in September 2018, measures laboratory performance against a fixed speed profile to facilitate direct model comparisons rather than predict hypermiling extremes.