Test-drive: Audi e-tron brand comes of age with new premium electric SUV option

The Q4 e-tron is the real real, with attractive looks and ample performance, and it is now on sale in Ireland

The Audi Q4 40 e-tron starts at an eye-catching price of €41,465. Picture: Roman Raetzke

The latest addition to the rapidly expanding Audi e-tron range, the Q4 e-tron is a five-door, five-seat SUV powered purely by electricity and starting at an eye-catching price of €41,465, once private buyer incentives are taken into consideration.

It follows on from the larger Audi e-tron SUV and the high-performance e-tron GT, but should be far more relevant to more buyers than either of those.

Technically speaking, this car shares its underpinnings with the Volkswagen ...