The 2025 Audi Q4 e-tron is sold in the U.S. as an electric large SUV with 3 EPA-rated configurations. Its longest-range version, the Q4 45 e-tron, is EPA-rated at 288 miles with 115 MPGe combined efficiency. NHTSA lists 2 recall campaigns for this model year, 1 rated critical, which gives it a Safety Signal grade of C. Owners have filed 7 complaints, most often about the electrical system. NHTSA crash-tested it at 5 stars overall. Manufacturer pricing runs from $49,800 to $58,200 across 3 trims.
Warranty basic 4 yr / 50,000 mi · powertrain 4 yr / 50,000 mi
MSRP excludes destination. 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
Configuration
Powertrain
Drive
Engine / motor
City
Hwy
Comb
Range
kWh/100mi
Charge (240V)
Annual fuel*
Q4 45 e-tron
Electric
RWD
210 kW PMSM 3-Phase
125
104
115 MPGe
288 mi
29.4
12 h
$650
Q4 55 e-tron quattro
Electric
AWD
80 and 170 kW Asynchron 3-Phase
107
92
100 MPGe
258 mi
33.7
12 h
$750
Q4 Sportback 55 e-tron quattro
Electric
AWD
80 and 170 kW Asynchron 3-Phase
107
92
100 MPGe
258 mi
33.7
12 h
$750
*EPA estimate at 15,000 miles/year at EPA reference fuel and electricity prices. fueleconomy.gov record ids: 48296, 48681, 48682.
All 50 states (federal, all altitudes); California and states following California standards
SmartWay Elite
Certified for all fifty states, so it can be registered new anywhere in the U.S.
The smog rating scores tailpipe pollutants other than greenhouse gases, 1 (worst) to 10 (best), and is comparable only within a model year. The standard is the federal bin or California tier the configuration was certified to. Both come from the EPA certificate behind the window sticker.
Insurers price the 2025 Q4 e-tron very differently, and the gap between the best and worst quote on the same car and driver is usually larger than any option you are weighing on this page.
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Recalls (2)
Source: NHTSA recall database
!critical
Electrical System
93SK
9,048 vehicles
ProblemVolkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Audi) is recalling certain 2024-2025 Q4 E-Tron and Q4 Sportback E-Tron vehicles.The high voltage battery may fail and cause a fire.RiskA vehicle fire increases the risk of injury.FixOwners are advised to only charge their vehicles to a maximum of 80% capacity until the repair has been completed. The remedy is currently under development. Interim letters notifying owners of the safety risk are expected to be mailed December 18, 2026. Additional letters will be sent once the remedy is available. Owners may contact Audi customer service at 1-800-253-2834. Audi's number for this recall is 93SK. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on N
ProblemVolkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain 2024-2025 AUDI Q4 E-Tron SUV, AUDI Q4 E-Tron Sportback, and 2024 ID.4 vehicles.The on-board charger (OCDC) may fail and stop charging the 12-volt battery, which can result in a loss of drive power.RiskA loss of drive power increases the risk of a crash.FixDealers will replace the OCDC, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on May 20, 2025. Owners may contact Volkswagen customer service at 1-800-893-5298 or Audi customer service at 1-800-253-2834. Volkswagen's number for this recall is 93CJ. Audi's number for this recall is 93FR.
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 Q4 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.
The manufacturer’s letter is the last step of a recall: it has up to 60 days after filing to mail owners, at the address on the registration. We email you the day NHTSA posts a recall on the 2025 Audi Q4 e-tron, with what to do next. Nothing else, ever — no newsletter, no marketing, one-click unsubscribe in every message.
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Parts & accessories for the 2025 Audi Q4 e-tron
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1 involved a crash · 0 a fire · 0 injuries · 0 deaths reported
Filed per year: 2025: 2 · 2026: 5
Most-cited components
Electrical System4
Service Brakes2
Vehicle Speed Control2
Tires1
Forward Collision Avoidance1
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.
I tried to charge my Q4 at home, the charging connector to the car had warning red light. So, I checked up dashboard. It's said that AC charging is limited. Eventually, I can't charge. I went to the audi dealer. They said it's simple software issue. Waited 2 hours, one day works fine. Same issue. They don't know what to do.
Electrical SystemSep 26, 2026NHTSA owner report · ODI 11767194
The contact owns a 2025 Audi Q4 Sportback E-tron. The contact stated that while the vehicle was inside the car wash, the contact shifted the transmission from neutral(N) to drive(D), but the vehicle experienced unintended acceleration.
I am filing a safety complaint regarding my leased 2025 Audi Q4 e-tron, leased new with under 500 miles and now at approximately 8,200 miles. The vehicle is available for inspection upon request.
Service BrakesAug 5, 2026NHTSA owner report · ODI 11754972
Received a low pressure warning and got off the freeway at the next exit, less than 1/2 mile. Unable to stop on freeway. Before even changing lanes the tire blew out all pressure, total failure. Within 15 seconds of low pressure warning. Stopped immediately after exiting freeway and observed the tire was shredded (see pictures)
TiresFeb 23, 2026NHTSA owner report · ODI 11719965
Vehicle fail to start in drive mode. Noticed "Electrical System malfunction" error. Notified Audi chantilly. So far they didn't provide any loaner vehicle from Audi
Electrical SystemApr 10, 2026NHTSA owner report · ODI 11730395
CRITICAL SAFETY DEFECT: HIGH-SPEED BRAKING SURGE & ELECTRICAL FAILURE Life safety concerning ! 1. Braking Failure at Highway Speeds: The vehicle exhibits a severe safety defect involving unintended acceleration/surging while braking.
Vehicle Speed ControlDec 28, 2025NHTSA owner report · ODI 11707365
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
Configuration
Overall
Frontal
Side
Rollover
Rollover risk
SUV AWD
★★★★★
★★★★☆
★★★★★
★★★★☆
11%
SUV AWD
★★★★★
★★★★☆
★★★★★
★★★★☆
11%
SUV RWD
not rated
★★★★☆
★★★★★
not rated
11%
NHTSA New Car Assessment Program. Standard driver-assist: forward collision warning, lane departure warning, automatic emergency braking.
Service bulletins & campaigns
Source: NHTSA manufacturer communications
Communicationsfiled with NHTSA908
Most recentmanufacturer date2026-09-25
Kindsas classified by NHTSA863 service bulletins, 41 others, 4 service campaigns
Most often about: Electrical System, Unknown Or Other, Structure, Service Brakes, Visibility/Wiper.
This bulletin states that technicians are required to report to the manufacturer when a vehicle has flooded, and specify the height to which the vehicle has been flooded.
Certain high-voltage (HV) battery cell modules may have an internal connection used to monitor battery voltage that may not have been adequately welded due to a manufacturing issue. If this condition is present, the battery monitoring system may display incorrect readings. Owners may notice a yellow or red warning light, along with related error messages being displayed on the instrument panel. To
This bulletin provides information when there are stails/marks on the sill panel trim.
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.
Manufacturer pricing runs from $49,800 for the Q4 45 e-tron (RWD) RWD to $58,200 for the Q4 Sportback 55 e-tron quattro AWD, across 3 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 Q4 e-tron have any recalls?
NHTSA has posted 2 recall campaigns for the 2025 Audi Q4 e-tron, 1 of them rated critical. The most serious on file is 26V698000, covering Electrical System. 1 of them was filed with no repair available at the time — NHTSA's file records what the manufacturer had in hand on the filing date, not what exists today. Check your own VIN at nhtsa.gov/recalls; a recall applies to specific build ranges, not every car.
How safe is the 2025 Audi Q4 e-tron?
NHTSA gave the 2025 Audi Q4 e-tron 5 stars overall in its New Car Assessment Program tests — 4-star frontal crash, 5-star side crash, 4-star rollover. WhichTrim also grades it C (78/100) on its recall record, which is a different question from crash protection.
What is the fuel economy of the 2025 Audi Q4 e-tron?
Across the 3 EPA-rated configurations of the 2025 Audi Q4 e-tron, the longest EPA range is 288 miles on a charge. Figures are the EPA's own, per configuration, and every one is listed above.
What do owners complain about on the 2025 Audi Q4 e-tron?
Owners have filed 7 complaints with NHTSA about the 2025 Audi Q4 e-tron, most often about electrical system, service brakes, vehicle speed control. Of those, 1 involved a crash. Complaints are unverified owner reports, so treat the pattern as a signal and the individual report as an anecdote.
How clean is the 2025 Audi Q4 e-tron?
The EPA smog rating for the 2025 Audi Q4 e-tron is 10 out of 10. That score covers tailpipe pollutants other than greenhouse gases, and it only compares vehicles within the same model year. It is certified for all fifty states, so it can be registered new anywhere in the U.S. Its configurations were certified to different standards — California ZEV, Federal Tier 3 Bin 0 — which the table above lists per configuration.
Are there service bulletins for the 2025 Audi Q4 e-tron?
The manufacturer has filed 908 service bulletins and related communications with NHTSA for the 2025 Audi Q4 e-tron, most often covering electrical system, unknown or other, structure. The most recent is dated 2026-09-25. 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 Q4 e-tron trim is the best value?
$8,400 separates the cheapest of the 3 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.
Data
Held
Source
What it covers — or what empty means
Fuel economy & configurations
3 configurations
EPA certification records
Every configuration the EPA certified for sale, with its own test figures.
Emission certificates
3 configurations
EPA emission certificates
Smog rating, standard and the sales area that decides where the car can be sold new.
Recalls
2
NHTSA recall campaigns
A complete federal register: every campaign covering this model year, with severity and advisory flags.
Owner complaints
7
NHTSA complaint database
Also complete, but unverified: these are reports owners filed, not findings. Counts scale with how many were sold.
Crash ratings
3 tested
NHTSA NCAP
Only the configurations NHTSA chose to crash-test, which is never all of them.
Service bulletins
908
NHTSA manufacturer communications
Everything the manufacturer told its dealers about a defect or malfunction, short of a recall.
Investigations
none
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
No defect investigation has been opened.
Driver-assist crash reports
none
NHTSA Standing General Order 2021-01
No 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 NHTSA
none
NHTSA vPIC, decoded from VIN patterns
We had no VIN pattern to decode for this model year, or the manufacturer filed nothing usable.
Trims, pricing & equipment
3 trims
Manufacturer press kit
Transcribed from the manufacturer's own press material, every value carrying the document it came from.
Rebuilt nightly; this page was generated 2026-10-26. Every figure above is traceable to the source named beside it, and the JSON for this page carries the same values with their identifiers.
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.
