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Home›Audi›A6 Sportback e-tron› 2025
Audi · Midsize Hatchback

2025 Audi A6 Sportback e-tron

Electric
Midsize car
3 manufacturer trims · not yet EPA-listed
Data refreshed 2026-10-03
B
Safety Signal
85 / 100 from the NHTSA recall record
RecallsNHTSA campaigns 2
Complaintsnone reporting a crash, fire or injury 2
Crash ratingNHTSA overall 5★
Starting MSRP3 trims · manufacturer $65,900
2025

The 2025 Audi A6 Sportback e-tron is an electric midsize hatchback announced by Audi in 3 trims; fueleconomy.gov has not listed this model year yet, so the specs and prices here come from the manufacturer's press kit and the safety record from NHTSA. NHTSA lists 2 recall campaigns for this model year, which gives it a Safety Signal grade of B. Owners have filed 2 complaints, most often about the forward collision avoidance. NHTSA crash-tested it at 5 stars overall. Manufacturer pricing runs from $65,900 to $67,900 across 2 trims.

2025 Audi A6 Sportback e-tron

Trims & pricing

Source: manufacturer press kitWhich trim should I buy? → Compare a trim →
TrimPowertrainDriveMSRPHPMPG combSeatsCargo (2nd row)Wheels
A6 Sportback e-tron (RWD)ElectricRWD$65,900362 hp126 mpg525.9 cu-ft20 in
A6 Sportback e-tron quattro®ElectricAWD$67,900422 hp121 mpg525.9 cu-ft20 in
S6 Sportback e-tronElectricAWD$78,700496 hp105 mpg525.9 cu-ft20 in
Warranty basic 4 yr / 50,000 mi · powertrain 4 yr / 50,000 mi

MSRP excludes destination. Audi files one press kit for the A6 Sportback e-tron family (S6 and the A6 Sportback e-tron); the table lists all of it, and the prices quoted for the 2025 A6 Sportback e-tron elsewhere on this page are the A6 Sportback e-tron trims only. Open a trim for the complete spec sheet and standard/optional equipment. Have the car in front of you? Decode its VIN to see which of these trims it is and what it was priced at.

Specs & fuel economy

Source: EPA fueleconomy.gov

No EPA fuel-economy record yet: fueleconomy.gov has not listed a 2025 Audi A6 Sportback e-tron. The trims, prices and manufacturer-stated economy above come from Audi’s press kit; EPA figures are added when the certification is published. Recall, complaint and investigation data below come from NHTSA.

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Recalls (2)

Source: NHTSA recall database
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Seat Belts

69D8
27,768 vehicles 79% reported repaired built Jul 19, 2024 – Nov 4, 2025
Problem Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Audi) is recalling certain 2025 SQ6 E-Tron, SQ6 Sportback E-Tron, Q6 Sportback E-Tron, A6, A5, A6 Sportback E-Tron, Q6 E-Tron, S5, and S6 Sportback E-Tron vehicles. The automatic locking retractor may fail to engage when a child seat is installed using the seat belt. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) numbers 208, "Occupant Crash Protection" and 209, "Seat Belt Assemblies." Risk An improperly secured child seat can increase risk of injury during a crash. Fix Dealers will inspect and replace the right and left rear seat belt assembly as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed February 16, 2026. Owners may contact Audi customer service at 1-800-253-2834. Audi's number for this recall is 69D8. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on December 23, 2025.
Filed with NHTSADefect report PDFOwner letter PDFRemedy instructions PDF
NHTSA campaign 25V899000 reported Dec 19, 2025 Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. the full filing, and every vehicle covered →
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Seat Belts

694T 69UM
1,042 vehicles 91% reported repaired built Jul 3, 2025 – Jul 3, 2025
Problem Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain 2025 GTI, Golf R, Audi A5, A6 Sportback E-Tron, S5, S6 Sportback E-Tron, 2026 Q4 Sportback E-Tron, and Q4 E-Tron vehicles. The torsion bar in one or both front seat belt retractors may have been damaged during production. Risk In a crash, a damaged torsion bar in a retractor could fail. If this happens, the seat belt may not properly restrain an occupant during a crash, increasing the risk of injury. Fix Dealers will replace one or both front seat belts, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed October 30, 2025, and October 31, 2025. Owners may contact Audi at 1-800-253-2834 or Volkswagen at 1-800-893-5298. Audi's number for this recall is 69UM; Volkswagen’s number for this recall is 694T. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning September 26, 2025.
Filed with NHTSADefect report PDFOwner letter PDFRemedy instructions PDF
NHTSA campaign 25V638000 reported Sep 24, 2025 Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. the full filing, and every vehicle covered →

These are vehicle campaigns — the ones the automaker filed against this model. NHTSA also records equipment recalls, filed by a parts maker against a component (a tyre, a child seat, an aftermarket part), and those are not listed here or counted above. nhtsa.gov/recalls shows both for a VIN.

Whether any of this applies to one specific A6 Sportback e-tron

A campaign covers a build range, not a model year, so two identical-looking cars from 2025 can differ. Both of these check a VIN against the manufacturer’s own list, free, in about ten seconds. Audi publishes its own lookup because federal rule 49 CFR 573.15 requires it to, and to keep it current to within seven days.

NHTSA VIN check →Audi’s own VIN lookup →

Tell me if this car gets recalled

One email when NHTSA files a new campaign against the 2025 Audi A6 Sportback e-tron. Nothing else, ever — no newsletter, no marketing, one-click unsubscribe in every message.

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Parts & accessories for the 2025 Audi A6 Sportback e-tron

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Owner complaints

Source: NHTSA complaint database
2complaints filed

0 involved a crash · 0 a fire · 0 injuries · 0 deaths reported

Filed per year: 2026: 2

Most-cited components

Forward Collision Avoidance 1
Power Train 1
Unspecified 1
Electrical System 1

In owners' own words

Filed with NHTSA by the people who own these cars, one per problem area. Quoted as written, with anything identifying removed.

The contact owns a 2025 Audi A6 Sportback E-tron. The contact stated that while his wife was attempting to exit the vehicle through the rear door, the door failed to open as needed. Additionally, the contact was unable to unlock or gain access to the vehicle via the phone key and keyless entry features.
Electrical System Jun 9, 2026 NHTSA owner report
While driving my vehicle, I approached a four‑way stop and began crossing a four‑lane road. The road consisted of two lanes traveling in one direction, a median, and two lanes traveling in the opposite direction. As I proceeded through the intersection and passed the median on my left, the vehicle suddenly lurched and made a noise.
Forward Collision Avoidance Apr 10, 2026 NHTSA owner report

Complaint counts are raw owner reports to NHTSA, not verified defects, and scale with how many were sold. Use them to spot patterns, not to rank.

Crash ratings

Source: NHTSA NCAP
ConfigurationOverallFrontalSideRolloverRollover risk
4 DR AWD★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★7%
4 DR RWD★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★7%

NHTSA New Car Assessment Program.

Service bulletins & campaigns

Source: NHTSA manufacturer communications
Communicationsfiled with NHTSA 473
Most recentmanufacturer date 2026-08-28
Kindsas classified by NHTSA 458 service bulletins, 10 others, 5 service campaigns

Most often about: Electrical System, Structure, Unknown Or Other, Service Brakes, Steering.

  • TSB_2083135_1 Service bulletin
    2026-08-28 · Electrical System
  • This bulletin provides information for new Key User pairing for all PPX vehicles with Audi connect.
  • TSB_2078794_3 Service bulletin
    2026-08-28 · Electrical System
  • This bulletin provides information when the digital key cannot be adapted.
  • TSB_2083124_1 Service bulletin
    2026-08-27 · Electrical System
  • This bulletin provides infomriaont when there are various faults, and no DoIO diagnosis.
  • TSB_2083083_2 Service bulletin
    2026-08-27 · Steering
  • This bulletin provides information when diagnostic address 0044 (steering) cannot be reached.
  • TSB_2082976_2 Service bulletin
    2026-08-27 · Electrical System
  • This bulletin provides general information about the current tpp issues for Audi connect.
  • TSB_2077331_6 Service bulletin
    2026-08-27 · Electrical System
  • This bulletin provides information when Digital Key activation cannot be completed with Audi connect.
  • TSB_2083113_1 Service bulletin
    2026-08-26 · Structure — Body
  • This bulletin provides information when the rear lid does not open or close fully.
  • TSB_2083100_1 Service bulletin
    2026-08-26 · Steering
  • This bulletin provides information when there is a steerin fault, terminal 30; DTC U140A00, PR number 1X1 1X0.

A service bulletin is the manufacturer telling its dealers how to diagnose or repair a known condition. It is not a recall, not a finding that the vehicle is defective, and the work is not automatically free — though a bulletin is often what a dealer works from when you describe a symptom, so quoting the document number can save a diagnosis. The count is every communication filed; the list shows the most recent, one entry per campaign, because a single campaign is usually filed as several documents on the same day. The summaries are NHTSA's; the full documents come from the manufacturer.

Common questions about the 2025 A6 Sportback e-tron

Source: EPA, NHTSA and manufacturer press kits

How much does the 2025 Audi A6 Sportback e-tron cost?

Manufacturer pricing runs from $65,900 for the A6 Sportback e-tron (RWD) RWD to $67,900 for the A6 Sportback e-tron quattro® AWD, across 2 trims. Those are MSRPs from the manufacturer's own press material; they exclude destination, options, taxes and whatever the dealer adds. Every trim and price is listed above.

Does the 2025 Audi A6 Sportback e-tron have any recalls?

NHTSA has posted 2 recall campaigns for the 2025 Audi A6 Sportback e-tron. The most serious on file is 25V899000, covering Seat Belts. Check your own VIN at nhtsa.gov/recalls; a recall applies to specific build ranges, not every car.

How safe is the 2025 Audi A6 Sportback e-tron?

NHTSA gave the 2025 Audi A6 Sportback e-tron 5 stars overall in its New Car Assessment Program tests — 5-star frontal crash, 5-star side crash, 5-star rollover. WhichTrim also grades it B (85/100) on its recall record, which is a different question from crash protection.

What do owners complain about on the 2025 Audi A6 Sportback e-tron?

Owners have filed 2 complaints with NHTSA about the 2025 Audi A6 Sportback e-tron, most often about forward collision avoidance, power train, unspecified. Complaints are unverified owner reports, so treat the pattern as a signal and the individual report as an anecdote.

Are there service bulletins for the 2025 Audi A6 Sportback e-tron?

The manufacturer has filed 473 service bulletins and related communications with NHTSA for the 2025 Audi A6 Sportback e-tron, most often covering electrical system, structure, unknown or other. The most recent is dated 2026-08-28. A bulletin is not a recall: it is the repair procedure a manufacturer sends its dealers for a condition it knows about, and the work is not automatically paid for. It is still worth knowing — if the symptom matches, quoting the bulletin number at the service desk can save a diagnosis. The document numbers and summaries are listed above.

Which 2025 Audi A6 Sportback e-tron trim is the best value?

$2,000 separates the cheapest of the 2 trims from the most expensive, so the answer depends on which of the differences you would actually use. Every trim has its own page here with the manufacturer's full specification and equipment list, plus a short summary of exactly what it adds over the base trim — worth reading before a dealer frames the walk-up for you. The trim-by-trim ladder shows what every step up costs and what it makes standard.

What we hold, and what an empty row means

Paid vehicle-history reports will not tell you the difference between “nothing happened to this car” and “we never received that record” — both of the big two say as much in their own help pages. Most of what is on this page comes from complete federal registers, so we can tell you which is which, row by row.

DataHeldSourceWhat it covers — or what empty means
Fuel economy & configurationsnoneEPA certification recordsfueleconomy.gov has not listed this model year yet; the trims above come from the manufacturer's press kit and the EPA figures follow when the certification is published.
Emission certificatesnoneEPA emission certificatesThe EPA published no certificate we could match to a configuration on this page.
Recalls2NHTSA recall campaignsA complete federal register: every campaign covering this model year, with severity and advisory flags.
Owner complaints2NHTSA complaint databaseAlso complete, but unverified: these are reports owners filed, not findings. Counts scale with how many were sold.
Crash ratings2 testedNHTSA NCAPOnly the configurations NHTSA chose to crash-test, which is never all of them.
Service bulletins473NHTSA manufacturer communicationsEverything the manufacturer told its dealers about a defect or malfunction, short of a recall.
InvestigationsnoneNHTSA Office of Defects InvestigationNo defect investigation has been opened.
Driver-assist crash reportsnoneNHTSA Standing General Order 2021-01No report has been filed. Only entities named in the order report, and only crashes they hear of — so this is also what an unequipped car, or a manufacturer without telematics, looks like.
Specifications filed with NHTSAnoneNHTSA vPIC, decoded from VIN patternsWe had no VIN pattern to decode for this model year, or the manufacturer filed nothing usable.
Trims, pricing & equipment3 trimsManufacturer press kitTranscribed from the manufacturer's own press material, every value carrying the document it came from.

Rebuilt nightly; this page was generated 2026-10-03. Every figure above is traceable to the source named beside it, and the JSON for this page carries the same values with their identifiers.

Where to go next

pages beside this one
Lineup Every 2025 model on file, by price Each 2025 nameplate whose press kit we hold, ranked by the maker's announced starting MSRP — this one among them.Recalls Every Audi recall on file All campaigns filed against Audi vehicles, newest first, with the manufacturer's own number.Recall Watch Watch this A6 Sportback e-tron by VIN Give it the VIN and you hear the night a campaign is filed — from $29 a month for a lot, free for ten.

Sources & method

Safety Signal starts every model-year at 100 and subtracts points per open NHTSA recall campaign by severity: critical 15 (fire risk, park-outside or do-not-drive advisories), high 8 (brakes, steering, airbags, loss of drive power, structure, battery), moderate 6, minor 3 (software, labels, lighting fixed by an update). The most serious recall counts in full and each further one counts 85% of the one before, because a vehicle sold in millions is recalled more often than a rare one without being more dangerous — and because a flat subtraction bottomed the scale out, scoring a vehicle with 22 recalls within a point of one with six. A ≥ 90, B ≥ 80, C ≥ 70, D ≥ 60, otherwise F. Read it as what it counts: recall campaigns on the federal record, weighted by severity. The damping reduces the sales bias by roughly 40% but does not remove it: like our complaint counts, this is not normalized by how many were sold, so a best-seller still scores somewhat worse than an obscure model with the same real risk. NHTSA crash ratings, do-not-drive and park-outside advisories, and the crash, fire, injury and death counts in owner complaints are reported separately on every page and never blended into the letter — a vehicle can hold five stars and a poor letter at once, and where that happens we say so rather than leave you to notice. Because the scale subtracts from a clean sheet, a model year too new to have been recalled, complained about or bulletined scores full marks on an empty record; we label those grades provisional rather than present them as earned.

EPA figures come from fueleconomy.gov vehicle records. Recalls, complaints, investigations and crash ratings come from NHTSA's public flat files, refreshed nightly. Trim-level specifications and pricing are transcribed from the manufacturer's official press kit; every value carries its source in the data file.

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