In accordance with Client Studies, the luxurious electrical automobile with the bottom buyer satisfaction ranking is one that you simply may not anticipate. It is an EV from one of many highest-rated European luxurious manufacturers, but it has left customers surprisingly dissatisfied. The producer that has gained this doubtful “honor” is none apart from Audi, for its Q8 E-Tron, which shall be discontinued after the 2025 mannequin 12 months. Be mindful, there are a number of manufacturing fashions within the Audi E-Tron lineup, and never all of them share the identical ranking.
The Audi Q8 E-Tron was severely downgraded for its reliability, popping out with a a lot decrease ranking than its direct rivals, the Lexus RZ and Genesis GV60. The Q8 E-Tron even scored considerably decrease than two of its companion EVs from Audi, the Q6 E-Tron and the This fall E-Tron. The worst areas of the scoring for the Audi Q8 E-Tron had been for its powertrain and its total reliability, each of which had been the worst scores potential. As well as, it obtained common scores for its brakes, suspension/steering, and in-car electronics, whereas garnering the absolute best scores for its construct high quality and local weather system.
Older fashions of the Audi Q8 E-Tron appeared to fare worse, with the 2024 Q8 E-Tron having a horrible reliability rating, which translated into a particularly low proprietor satisfaction rating. The 2025 Q8 E-Tron improved on these rankings barely, with a bump in its reliability that was not very a lot of an enchancment. Proprietor satisfaction was as little as it was for the 2024 mannequin, whereas the 2025 Q8 E-Tron truly bought an excellent highway check rating, reflecting the prime quality of its driving expertise.
What else ought to you already know concerning the Audi Q8 E-Tron?
Whereas the testing workers at CR typically favored the way in which that the Audi Q8 E-Tron dealt with, they rated it under different EVs just like the BMW iX and the Jaguar I-Tempo. Two physique types can be found for the Q8 E-Tron: the standard, boxy SUV type and the sloping-roof ‘Sportback’ type. Our evaluate of the Q8 E-Tron discovered that this EV was each comfy and sporting, whereas our styling evaluate revealed that the Q8 E-Tron is one of the best-looking electrical SUVs available on the market.
This automobile was launched for the 2019 mannequin 12 months and was named the Audi E-Tron from 2019 by the 2023 mannequin years. For 2024, it was given the Audi Q8 E-Tron title and continued with that title till it was dropped on the finish of the 2025 mannequin 12 months. On the time, this conformed to Audi’s naming conference of giving its EVs even numbers whereas its ICE automobiles use odd numbers for identification. That naming technique has since been deserted.
The Audi Q8 E-Tron is an EV that has been round for what quantities to a very long time in ‘EV years’. Whereas it did beat its BMW and Mercedes-Benz rivals to market by a number of years, it now seems to be gone its sell-by date and has not aged nicely, if CR’s evaluation is something to go by. Electrical automobiles have progressed far past the place they had been simply six brief years in the past. Audi appears to agree that it is time for the subsequent technology of Audi EVs.
