Audi Q4 e-tron

The Q4 E-Tron Sportback slips into the Audi range beneath the much more expensive E-Tron Sportback and, given it’s the fresher product of the two (and most people won’t realise its relatively ‘junior’ status) looks like an attractive deal. It is, however, much more expensive than the VW and Skoda alternatives that are fundamentally the same underneath and our E-Tron 50 Quattro test car had a hefty bottom-line price of nearly £65,000. That figure will remain an abstract if, like most people, you finance the car through monthly payments of one sort or another but reveals just how much of a premium you’re paying for the Audi badge, the Sportback also more expensive than the regular Q4 E-Tron like-for-like. Things look much more attractive on day-to-day running costs, though, especially if you have facility to install a home charger and benefit from cheap off-peak electricity tariffs. Zero VED/road tax will appeal to private owners while salary sacrifice schemes and Benefit In Kind incentives make electric cars very attractive for company drivers as well.