Audi Q4 Sportback e-tron vs Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer

The Audi Q4 Sportback e-tron costs £18,165 more than the Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer. For that premium it adds 60 kW faster peak rapid charging, 35 kW more power and a 1.4s quicker 0-62mph time. On EVcarsguide's combined category scores, the Audi Q4 Sportback e-tron comes out ahead overall.

The Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer is £18,165 cheaper to buy. Running costs are almost identical - about £144 a year either way, at 8,000 miles on an off-peak home tariff. Add 5 years of charging and the Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer comes out roughly £18,245 cheaper overall. These figures cover list price and home charging only - insurance, servicing, tyres and depreciation will move the real total.

EVcarsguide estimates a real-world motorway range of about 229 miles for the Audi Q4 Sportback e-tron and 229 miles for the Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer - effectively matched, and both well below their WLTP figures because sustained high speed is the hardest case for an EV.

The two are within 5 mm on width, so neither is meaningfully easier to thread into a tight space. In a standard 2,400 mm bay that leaves about 540 mm of total clearance for the Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer and about 535 mm of total clearance for the Audi Q4 Sportback e-tron. The Audi Q4 Sportback e-tron also turns in a 0.5 m tighter circle, which helps with U-turns and multi-storey ramps.

Over a 8-year ownership window EVcarsguide's degradation model projects roughly 84% battery health for the Audi Q4 Sportback e-tron and 84% for the Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer. That is close enough that capacity loss should not decide between them. Both use NMC-type cells, so for daily use keep the charge limit near 80% to slow degradation. Both batteries carry a 8-year manufacturer warranty.