现任欧洲拉力锦标赛冠军驾驶一辆奥迪A6 Sportback e-tron，在单次充电的情况下，行驶了1,338公里，创下了吉尼斯世界纪录。该车的平均能耗为每100公里7.09千瓦时电。根据奥迪官方数据，这款车的WLTP（世界轻型车辆测试程序）续航里程为777公里，整个行驶过程耗时超过45小时，因此平均行驶速度低于每小时30公里。
The reigning European Rally Champion drove an Audi A6 Sportback e-tron 1,338 kilometres across Poland on a single charge, a Guinness World Record, at 7.09 kWh per 100 kilometres. The car’s official WLTP range is 777 kilometres, and the drive took more than 45 hours, which puts the average speed under 30 kilometres an hour.
奥迪表示，米科·马尔奇克（Miko Marczyk）成功打破了这一纪录。奥迪A6 Sportback e-tron的WLTP续航里程为777公里，而马尔奇克的行驶距离达到了1,338公里，因此其续航里程比官方数据高出72%。此前的纪录保持者是Lucid Air Grand Touring，它在去年7月从圣莫里茨（St. Moritz）行驶到慕尼黑（Munich），行驶距离为1,205公里；该车的WLTP续航里程为960公里，因此马尔奇克的成就实际上超过了前纪录的25%。
Miko Marczyk drove an Audi A6 Sportback e-tron 1,338 kilometres across Poland on a single charge, setting a Guinness World Record, Audi said. The car averaged 7.09 kWh per 100 kilometres. The drive took more than 45 hours. The official figure is 777. Audi rates the car at 777 kilometres on the WLTP cycle, so the record sits 72% beyond it. The previous holder, a Lucid Air Grand Touring, covered 1,205 kilometres from St Moritz to Munich in July last year. That car is rated at 960 kilometres, so it beat its own figure by about a quarter.
正如InsideEVs所指出的，奥迪并未公布具体的平均行驶速度。不过，从行驶距离和耗时来看，平均速度确实低于每小时30公里。马尔奇克于9月11日凌晨1点55分出发，途经维斯瓦河（Vistula River）、克拉科夫（Krakow）和华沙（Warsaw），最终成功完成了这次长途驾驶。
Speed explains most of the difference. Audi did not publish an average speed, as InsideEVs noted. The distance and the duration give one anyway, at under 30 kilometres an hour sustained for nearly two days. Marczyk set off at 1.55am on 11 September and drove the Vistula route to Hel on the Baltic and back, through Krakow and Warsaw, in ordinary traffic.
这辆奥迪A6 Sportback e-tron属于标准配置车型：它搭载367马力的发动机，0-100公里/小时的加速时间为5.4秒，电池容量为100千瓦时，可提供94.9千瓦时的可用电量。其空气阻力系数（0.21）是所有奥迪车型中最低的；据奥迪称，空气动力阻力占据了该车在WLTP测试循环中能耗的约40%。
The car itself is standard. It makes 367 hp, reaches 100 kilometres an hour in 5.4 seconds and carries 94.9 kWh usable from a 100 kWh pack. Its drag coefficient of 0.21 is the lowest of any Audi ever built. The company says aerodynamic drag accounts for about 40% of the Sportback’s consumption on the WLTP cycle.
奥迪A6 e-tron基于“Premium Platform Electric”这一电动平台打造，该平台由保时捷（Porsche）和奥迪共同开发，属于大众集团（Volkswagen Group）旗下的800伏特电气架构。保时捷的Cayenne Electric以及宾利（Bentley）的新款Torcal车型也都采用了这一平台。该平台的再生制动系统能够处理日常驾驶中95%的制动需求，最大制动功率可达220千瓦。效率是奥迪目前宣传的重点。
The platform is getting familiar. The A6 e-tron is the second car on Premium Platform Electric, the 800-volt architecture Porsche and Audi built inside Volkswagen Group. Porsche’s Cayenne Electric runs on it, and so does Bentley’s new Torcal. Regenerative braking handles about 95% of everyday braking events here, at up to 220 kW. Efficiency is Audi’s current argument.
该公司在低价端也提出了同样的理由，因戈尔施塔特生产的A2 e-tron宣称每百公里耗电12.8千瓦时，WLTP续航里程为646公里。这款车距离欧洲小型车类别标准仅差12厘米。测试才是薄弱环节。
The company is making the same case at the cheap end, where the A2 e-tron built in Ingolstadt claims 12.8 kWh per 100 kilometres and 646 kilometres on WLTP. That car misses a European category for small cars by 12 centimetres. The test is the weak point.
WLTP于2018年9月取代了旧的NEDC循环测试，适用于所有欧洲新车，在实验室中按照固定速度曲线运行。它的存在是为了让购车者能够将一款车与另一款车进行比较，而非预测任何一款车的实际表现。一位拉力赛车手刚刚以步行速度行驶了两天，就将其超出了72%。
WLTP replaced the older NEDC cycle for all new European cars in September 2018 and is run in a laboratory to a fixed speed profile. It exists so buyers can compare one car against another, not to predict what any of them will do. A rally driver has just beaten it by 72% by driving at walking pace for two days.