Audi SQ6 Sportback e-tron vs Porsche Taycan Sport Turismo

The Porsche Taycan Sport Turismo is £950 cheaper to buy. Running costs are almost identical - about £176 a year either way, at 8,000 miles on an off-peak home tariff. Add 5 years of charging and the Porsche Taycan Sport Turismo comes out roughly £990 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 309 miles for the Audi SQ6 Sportback e-tron and 293 miles for the Porsche Taycan Sport Turismo - both below their WLTP figures, because sustained high speed is the hardest case for an EV. The Audi SQ6 Sportback e-tron goes roughly 17 miles further between charging stops. Both rapid-charge to 80% in a similar time, around 18-21 minutes.

The two are within 1 mm on width, so neither is meaningfully easier to thread into a tight space. In a standard 2,400 mm bay that leaves about 435 mm of total clearance for the Audi SQ6 Sportback e-tron and about 434 mm of total clearance for the Porsche Taycan Sport Turismo. The Porsche Taycan Sport Turismo also turns in a 0.4 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 SQ6 Sportback e-tron and 84% for the Porsche Taycan Sport Turismo. 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.