Audi's A6 e-tron drove 1,338 km on one charge, beating Lucid
A standard A6 Sportback e-tron beat its own WLTP range by 561 km in Poland
Audi's A6 Sportback e-tron performance has covered 1,338 km on a single charge, a Guinness World Records title for a production car. Polish rally driver Miko Marczyk set off at 1:55 am on 11 September and drove for more than 45 hours before the battery gave out. The car was standard, the roads were public, and the result is 561 km more than the official WLTP range.
Audi A6 Sportback e-tron: 1,338 km from the Tatras to the Baltic and back
The run started in Zakopane, followed the Vistula north through Krakow, Sandomierz, Warsaw, Torun and Grudziadz to Hel on the Baltic coast, then turned back along much of the same route. The A6 finally stopped between Torun and Ciechocinek. Traffic was real, rush hour included, and the average temperature was around 15°C, dipping as low as 7°C. The car ran on low-rolling-resistance Michelin tyres.
Lucid's 1,205 km Air record ran 25% past WLTP, the Audi 72%
The Lucid Air Grand Touring won its Guinness title in July 2025 with 1,205 km from St. Moritz to Munich, which Lucid says beat the previous 1,045 km mark. The Air has a 960 km WLTP rating, so it went about 25% beyond its official figure. The Audi starts from 777 km and finished 72% beyond it. The Lucid remains the car with more range on paper; the Audi is the one that stretched furthest past its own. The terrain favoured Poland: the Lucid crossed the Alps, while the Vistula route is almost entirely flat.
7.09 kWh per 100 km took an average speed below 30 km/h
Marczyk averaged 7.09 kWh per 100 km, less than half the car's official WLTP consumption, and the arithmetic checks out: 94.9 kWh of usable battery divided by that figure gives exactly 1,338 km. The cost was time. More than 45 hours for 1,338 km means an average below 30 km/h, including stops. Skoda's Peaq managed 936 km earlier this month under a similar regime, below 40 km/h. Efficiency records are now a crawl by design.
Miko Marczyk already drove a Skoda Superb 2,831 km on one tank
Marczyk is the European rally champion, and this is his second efficiency record in the Volkswagen Group. In 2025 he drove a Skoda Superb diesel 2,831 km on one tank, averaging 2.61 litres per 100 km. That comfortably out-distances the 1,980 km Nissan's Qashqai e-Power covered on a tank this summer. His method barely changes between fuels: read traffic far ahead, avoid braking, and let recuperation do the rest.
At motorway speed, the A6 e-tron's 94.9 kWh battery buys under 500 km
Marczyk himself says consumption at high speed is almost three times what he achieved. Applied to the same 94.9 kWh, that is somewhere under 500 km, which is what an owner should plan around on a fast autoroute. The hardware still matters at any speed: a 0.21 drag coefficient, the lowest of any production Audi, and recuperation of up to 220 kW that Audi says handles about 95% of everyday braking.
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Audi has earned this one. A record set below 30 km/h says little about a Brussels to Lyon run, but the margin over WLTP does say something, because the Lucid also ran on public roads, with the same incentive, and stretched its rating by a quarter. The A6 stretched its by nearly three quarters. The 0.21 drag figure that made the difference helps more at 130 km/h, not less.
Chinese makers now sell range as hard as they sell horsepower, so this title will not sit still for long. If no production car goes beyond 1,338 km before the Beijing Auto Show opens on 27 March 2027, Audi will have held a record the whole industry is chasing with a saloon that has been on sale since 2024, and on a battery that is not even the largest in its class.
