**Audi e-tron vs Tesla Model X: Which Electric SUV Reigns Supreme?**

As we took both vehicles out on the track, it became clear that neither the Audi e-tron nor the Tesla Model X was going to be easy to beat. The Audi, with its twin motors powering the front and rear wheels, seemed to have a slight advantage in terms of traction and handling. "The chassis is better," our tester noted after completing their first lap. "I feel better connected to the tarmac in this car."

However, the Tesla's lighter weight and more agile design proved to be a significant handicap on the track. "Traction control coming in, okay, break space, race there's some body roll here," our driver admitted after completing their first lap. The Audi, on the other hand, seemed to hug the corners with ease, its stiffer chassis allowing it to maintain better grip and stability.

As we continued around the track, the Audi's advantages became more apparent. "I'm getting none of that (side support) and I can't control anything down the gears in a petrol car," our tester joked after a particularly sharp corner. Meanwhile, the Tesla seemed to be struggling to find its rhythm, with its electric motors struggling to provide enough traction.

But despite the Audi's on-track superiority, the Tesla had one major advantage: performance. With its 443 horsepower and instant torque, the Tesla was able to accelerate out of corners at a pace that left the Audi in its wake. "This is proper like late for the school run I'm falling off my seat there's no side support I'm genuinely trying to fall out," our driver exclaimed after a particularly brutal acceleration.

**Performance: The Audi Takes the Lead**

Despite the Tesla's impressive straight-line speed, it was the Audi that emerged victorious in the performance department. On the track, the Audi's twin motors proved to be a significant advantage, allowing it to maintain better traction and handling at high speeds. While the Tesla may have been able to accelerate out of corners quickly, its heavier weight and less agile design made it more prone to oversteer.

As we completed our second lap around the track, the Audi's lead had grown significantly. "The Audi sean and proved it's the better car on the limit by some considerable margin," our tester noted after completing their second lap. Meanwhile, the Tesla was struggling to keep pace, its electric motors struggling to provide enough traction in the corners.

**Real-World Performance: The Tesla Takes the Lead**

But while the Audi may have dominated on the track, the Tesla's superior performance in real-world driving scenarios made it a more compelling choice for everyday use. On the road, the Tesla was noticeably smoother and quieter than the Audi, its electric motors providing a smoother and more refined ride.

Meanwhile, the Audi's more aggressive design and stiffer chassis made it feel less comfortable on long drives. "I'm getting none of that (side support) and I can't control anything down the gears in a petrol car," our tester joked after completing their driving segment. Meanwhile, the Tesla offered a more flexible and adaptable driving experience, making it a better choice for drivers who wanted to be able to adjust their speed and gear settings on the fly.

**Conclusion: The Audi e-tron Takes the Win**

In the end, while both vehicles had their strengths and weaknesses, the Audi e-tron emerged as the clear winner in our test. Its superior performance on the track, combined with its more comfortable and refined driving experience on the road, made it a compelling choice for drivers who wanted an electric SUV that could handle both on-track and everyday driving duties.

The Tesla, while still an impressive vehicle, was ultimately outperformed by the Audi's agile handling and responsive steering. "Two and a half tons down in a way," our tester noted after completing their testing. "That's remarkable."

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: endon't fights have been one of fifth-years signature dishes for well over a decade we pit two similar piston pumping exhaust smiling bruises up against each other to find out which is best supercars super saloons super SUVs and pretty much everything else found there cubic capacity heads together over the years but today we step into truly unchartered dogfight territory because in a fifth gear first both competitors do not have a combustion engine correct both these vehicles behind me are electric and that means if you think this battle is going to comprise two twenty mile an hour milk floats where have you been for the last ten years these are both capable of tarmac tearing performance I predict sparks are gonna fly oh you're a comedian now this is the Tesla Model X Tesla were the first company to take the electric car beyond the realms of urban runabout and produce vehicles with supercar levels of performance and cross-country range the X is their SUV model and this long-range version can go 315 miles between recharges and reach 155 miles an hour okay Tesla stoller March with their Evie SUV but finally the competition hasn't woken up and this is how DS answer-the each on fifty five has a range of 237 miles and a limited top speed of 124 if anyone can give the Tesla a run for its money it's a high-tech company that has produced some of the world's greatest high-performance cars 85,000 pounds versus 71 masters of electrics versus masters of engineering which one would you like the keyless entry to Vicky Oh take the most expensive one we're going to conduct three tests starting with straightforward Battle of pure get up and go the drag race best of three runs takes the honors this car has a boost mode which means there's an immediate extra bit of power if you want it on launch control from 561 to 664 Newton meters of torque momentarily but I'm going to use it because I need it against that thing although this Model X is about 15 centimeters longer than the Audi it is a lighter by about 100 kilograms it's got a similar amount of torque 600 Newton meters and like the Audi this is four-wheel drive for maximum traction let's see what happens so launch control I put it in 2d and then knock it again into sport mode I've just got it in Drive Jonny's faffing around launch control blah blah blah I've got the drivers select mode in dynamic then it allows me boost mode well we'll see what happens once Johnny works out his launch control yeah I'm ready launch control activated Howdy's keeping pace Oh My giddy odds I'm really really close Wow so quiet so quick they're both quick for such big beasts this thing weighs as much as a rolls-royce phantom but it will out accelerate a base-model at Porsche Cayman your launch control was good your farm is gonna have yeah and nearly and then it just like I thought I would outpaced you sooner yeah so smooth listen we can have a conversation yeah sure we have round two yeah I'm beat it's really really she's yes that was close well done outie it was really evil very good it's so smooth you don't get that joke like you do with launch control in a piston car that's brilliant engineering is it really is nevertheless I'd lost to drag races in a row and had to admit defeat in this particular challenge now we turn our attention to these cars abilities as daily drivers that means taking into account stuff like ride quality build quality specification general ambience all of which LD historically a rather good ER yep I agree with that but let me show you something before we get going like what thank you oh I wasn't expecting that because the tester has a few tricks up its sleeve that might prove very useful for families and that's who these cars are aimed at open door oh the Falcon doors oh yeah now bees are supposed to be excellent for tight parking spaces there is a definite sense of theater here yeah and inside you can have four five six or seven seats that is good to have those options yeah however mmm-hmm let's go around to the rear yeah and in here because you've chosen six seats you get a bit of a wheelie booth ahh Oh contraire Monsieur Smith actually that is quite impressive but I'll take the five seats and I'll have that 605 litres quite a lot bigger than that yeah although the Tesla could be specified with fewer seats thus increasing load space so I think the Model X wins the seating and space contest once on the road I wanted to kick off with the cars different interior all my information I've got in this 17 inch screen and what's super clever is that software updates come via Tesla's Wi-Fi system so I don't have to go to a dealer I don't know whether the size of that screen is a bit intrusive I think it's something that you get used to and my high-tech thinking continues on the outside so I've got eight cameras I've got twelve ultrasonic sensors and I've got a forward facing camera that sees through fog so basically I am all set up for anything I don't filter try wanna see it's really good that air suspension is doing a fine fine job Tessa have got it absolutely licked when it comes to recharging their super charging network is second to none yeah you can charge this up to 80% of its charge which will give you 250 miles in 40 minutes yeah now your struggle to find a charger that will do that in twice the time allowed a time for the Audi and our impressions of the interior well this is much more conventional I feel like we have taken a step backwards in cabin layout a person that's attracted to an e-tron is a person that is attracted to convention yeah but they want maybe to be environmentally responsible or then maybe just realize they're spending most of time driving around a town or a city in a bloody great color there so why over diesel however the virtual cockpit that the screen layouts here I mean the steering wheel looks way more expensive than the Tesla one I think this has got a better finish to it yeah and I think a lot of people were looking and go yeah it's a cool-looking car and then there's the door mirrors which unlike other aspects of the Audi are far from conventional because they use cameras with these funky door mirrors they've tried to bring the future in but they've missed a trick because the screens are mounted too low down and they're too small looking down into a door home to see them I have a mild panic I keep going across not being able to see anything looking down not being satisfied with that view and then just doing the whole like sweep over my shoulder and everything yeah this is not a bad car but I think this sits in this weird halfway house where it's not the best range efficient car 248 miles it's not the fastest and it's not the most engaging so it's kind of a jack-of-all-trades and definitely a master of not okay understood so the inside of the e-tron doesn't have the futuristic feel of the Tesla except for those fancy door mirrors which don't really work plus Tesla's dedicated super charging Network allows the Model X to be recharged far quicker than the Audi and that makes it two nil to the Tesla however even though it can't win over all the e-tron could still claw a bit of dignity back so we still want to know which one offers the best all-around performance when the hammer goes down and that means putting them against the clock around a track each vehicle will have two attempts to record its best time and to eliminate any driver discrepancy Vicky's gonna pile up both cars because well she's a racing driver we'll start with the Tesla so I've got the equivalent of 443 I'm a little bit lighter than the e-tron I've got two electric motors one powering the front axle one powering the rear and the talk is sent to the tires with the most traction to give me enough bite and go yeah yeah now on the road this was a very comfortable car it's quite softly sprung that should go against it on a track well we were about to find out with our first flying lap okay look traction control coming in okay break space race there's some body roll here oh yeah fighter hustling a mini head I definitely feel its height through the corners yeah so quiet I mean we're not having to shout him out doing a hundred thousand miles an hour going hard into the breaks little bit unsettled at the back okay we're coming up for lap number one time okay and on - laughs - Oh Vicki this is proper like late for the school run I'm falling off my seat there's no side support I'm genuinely trying to fall out what petrol cars give me which is a real shitty chat yeah I'm getting none of that and I can't control anything down the gears in a petrol car I'd be selecting lower gears to assist braking but being all-electric Tesla doesn't have any submit enough yeah oh okay Hey wow you are nothing if not consistent 110 point two nine versus one ten point five oh so one ten point two nine is what the Audi has to beat so four hundred a horsepower at your disposal up to six hundred and sixty four Newton meter talk with your boost function which I have Jonny well in which case you're gonna be just fine I am a hundred kilograms heavier than the Tesla I think that the Audi engineering and the know-how of making cars go around a corner it's going to really benefit this car you ready yeah three two one go now this the shows a little livelier yeah okay instantly add a little bit of hopping from my inside rear so that tells me I've got a stiffer chassis and things are talking to me like the Tesla the Audi has twin motors powering the front and back wheels however whilst up to 100% of torque can be thrown to the front or back in the Tesla the Audi's is fixed at 60% to the rear and 40% up front in the dry that's fine but in slippery conditions the e-tron could waste talk as it's sent to the wheels with limited grip okay well that's nearly v-max mister only does 124 I thought we were gonna kiss some cones then okay this is good okay you naughty so it's on restarting the clock for the second lap riskiness electric cars are heavy because batteries are heavy in fact the hourly tips the scales at a whopping two thousand five hundred and sixty-five kilograms on the plus side the batteries are packed slow in the car reducing body roll I feel better connected to the tarmac in this car so the tester was one minute ten one minute ten this is one minute for and one minute and then lap two was one minute four so it's less power and heavier but the chassis is better yeah exactly I'm impressed the Audi's managing to actually put two and a half tons down in that way that's remarkable yeah I do sense that the Tesla is like a computer wrapped up in a car body whereas this is designed to be a car that's just got some sort of extra technology inside it so we had to wait a while but eventually the e-tron sean and proved it's the better car on the limit by some considerable margin however the tesla won our other two challenges it's quicker and a straight line smoother on the road and offers more flexibility when it comes to interior space and that makes it the electric SUV we both go for youdon't fights have been one of fifth-years signature dishes for well over a decade we pit two similar piston pumping exhaust smiling bruises up against each other to find out which is best supercars super saloons super SUVs and pretty much everything else found there cubic capacity heads together over the years but today we step into truly unchartered dogfight territory because in a fifth gear first both competitors do not have a combustion engine correct both these vehicles behind me are electric and that means if you think this battle is going to comprise two twenty mile an hour milk floats where have you been for the last ten years these are both capable of tarmac tearing performance I predict sparks are gonna fly oh you're a comedian now this is the Tesla Model X Tesla were the first company to take the electric car beyond the realms of urban runabout and produce vehicles with supercar levels of performance and cross-country range the X is their SUV model and this long-range version can go 315 miles between recharges and reach 155 miles an hour okay Tesla stoller March with their Evie SUV but finally the competition hasn't woken up and this is how DS answer-the each on fifty five has a range of 237 miles and a limited top speed of 124 if anyone can give the Tesla a run for its money it's a high-tech company that has produced some of the world's greatest high-performance cars 85,000 pounds versus 71 masters of electrics versus masters of engineering which one would you like the keyless entry to Vicky Oh take the most expensive one we're going to conduct three tests starting with straightforward Battle of pure get up and go the drag race best of three runs takes the honors this car has a boost mode which means there's an immediate extra bit of power if you want it on launch control from 561 to 664 Newton meters of torque momentarily but I'm going to use it because I need it against that thing although this Model X is about 15 centimeters longer than the Audi it is a lighter by about 100 kilograms it's got a similar amount of torque 600 Newton meters and like the Audi this is four-wheel drive for maximum traction let's see what happens so launch control I put it in 2d and then knock it again into sport mode I've just got it in Drive Jonny's faffing around launch control blah blah blah I've got the drivers select mode in dynamic then it allows me boost mode well we'll see what happens once Johnny works out his launch control yeah I'm ready launch control activated Howdy's keeping pace Oh My giddy odds I'm really really close Wow so quiet so quick they're both quick for such big beasts this thing weighs as much as a rolls-royce phantom but it will out accelerate a base-model at Porsche Cayman your launch control was good your farm is gonna have yeah and nearly and then it just like I thought I would outpaced you sooner yeah so smooth listen we can have a conversation yeah sure we have round two yeah I'm beat it's really really she's yes that was close well done outie it was really evil very good it's so smooth you don't get that joke like you do with launch control in a piston car that's brilliant engineering is it really is nevertheless I'd lost to drag races in a row and had to admit defeat in this particular challenge now we turn our attention to these cars abilities as daily drivers that means taking into account stuff like ride quality build quality specification general ambience all of which LD historically a rather good ER yep I agree with that but let me show you something before we get going like what thank you oh I wasn't expecting that because the tester has a few tricks up its sleeve that might prove very useful for families and that's who these cars are aimed at open door oh the Falcon doors oh yeah now bees are supposed to be excellent for tight parking spaces there is a definite sense of theater here yeah and inside you can have four five six or seven seats that is good to have those options yeah however mmm-hmm let's go around to the rear yeah and in here because you've chosen six seats you get a bit of a wheelie booth ahh Oh contraire Monsieur Smith actually that is quite impressive but I'll take the five seats and I'll have that 605 litres quite a lot bigger than that yeah although the Tesla could be specified with fewer seats thus increasing load space so I think the Model X wins the seating and space contest once on the road I wanted to kick off with the cars different interior all my information I've got in this 17 inch screen and what's super clever is that software updates come via Tesla's Wi-Fi system so I don't have to go to a dealer I don't know whether the size of that screen is a bit intrusive I think it's something that you get used to and my high-tech thinking continues on the outside so I've got eight cameras I've got twelve ultrasonic sensors and I've got a forward facing camera that sees through fog so basically I am all set up for anything I don't filter try wanna see it's really good that air suspension is doing a fine fine job Tessa have got it absolutely licked when it comes to recharging their super charging network is second to none yeah you can charge this up to 80% of its charge which will give you 250 miles in 40 minutes yeah now your struggle to find a charger that will do that in twice the time allowed a time for the Audi and our impressions of the interior well this is much more conventional I feel like we have taken a step backwards in cabin layout a person that's attracted to an e-tron is a person that is attracted to convention yeah but they want maybe to be environmentally responsible or then maybe just realize they're spending most of time driving around a town or a city in a bloody great color there so why over diesel however the virtual cockpit that the screen layouts here I mean the steering wheel looks way more expensive than the Tesla one I think this has got a better finish to it yeah and I think a lot of people were looking and go yeah it's a cool-looking car and then there's the door mirrors which unlike other aspects of the Audi are far from conventional because they use cameras with these funky door mirrors they've tried to bring the future in but they've missed a trick because the screens are mounted too low down and they're too small looking down into a door home to see them I have a mild panic I keep going across not being able to see anything looking down not being satisfied with that view and then just doing the whole like sweep over my shoulder and everything yeah this is not a bad car but I think this sits in this weird halfway house where it's not the best range efficient car 248 miles it's not the fastest and it's not the most engaging so it's kind of a jack-of-all-trades and definitely a master of not okay understood so the inside of the e-tron doesn't have the futuristic feel of the Tesla except for those fancy door mirrors which don't really work plus Tesla's dedicated super charging Network allows the Model X to be recharged far quicker than the Audi and that makes it two nil to the Tesla however even though it can't win over all the e-tron could still claw a bit of dignity back so we still want to know which one offers the best all-around performance when the hammer goes down and that means putting them against the clock around a track each vehicle will have two attempts to record its best time and to eliminate any driver discrepancy Vicky's gonna pile up both cars because well she's a racing driver we'll start with the Tesla so I've got the equivalent of 443 I'm a little bit lighter than the e-tron I've got two electric motors one powering the front axle one powering the rear and the talk is sent to the tires with the most traction to give me enough bite and go yeah yeah now on the road this was a very comfortable car it's quite softly sprung that should go against it on a track well we were about to find out with our first flying lap okay look traction control coming in okay break space race there's some body roll here oh yeah fighter hustling a mini head I definitely feel its height through the corners yeah so quiet I mean we're not having to shout him out doing a hundred thousand miles an hour going hard into the breaks little bit unsettled at the back okay we're coming up for lap number one time okay and on - laughs - Oh Vicki this is proper like late for the school run I'm falling off my seat there's no side support I'm genuinely trying to fall out what petrol cars give me which is a real shitty chat yeah I'm getting none of that and I can't control anything down the gears in a petrol car I'd be selecting lower gears to assist braking but being all-electric Tesla doesn't have any submit enough yeah oh okay Hey wow you are nothing if not consistent 110 point two nine versus one ten point five oh so one ten point two nine is what the Audi has to beat so four hundred a horsepower at your disposal up to six hundred and sixty four Newton meter talk with your boost function which I have Jonny well in which case you're gonna be just fine I am a hundred kilograms heavier than the Tesla I think that the Audi engineering and the know-how of making cars go around a corner it's going to really benefit this car you ready yeah three two one go now this the shows a little livelier yeah okay instantly add a little bit of hopping from my inside rear so that tells me I've got a stiffer chassis and things are talking to me like the Tesla the Audi has twin motors powering the front and back wheels however whilst up to 100% of torque can be thrown to the front or back in the Tesla the Audi's is fixed at 60% to the rear and 40% up front in the dry that's fine but in slippery conditions the e-tron could waste talk as it's sent to the wheels with limited grip okay well that's nearly v-max mister only does 124 I thought we were gonna kiss some cones then okay this is good okay you naughty so it's on restarting the clock for the second lap riskiness electric cars are heavy because batteries are heavy in fact the hourly tips the scales at a whopping two thousand five hundred and sixty-five kilograms on the plus side the batteries are packed slow in the car reducing body roll I feel better connected to the tarmac in this car so the tester was one minute ten one minute ten this is one minute for and one minute and then lap two was one minute four so it's less power and heavier but the chassis is better yeah exactly I'm impressed the Audi's managing to actually put two and a half tons down in that way that's remarkable yeah I do sense that the Tesla is like a computer wrapped up in a car body whereas this is designed to be a car that's just got some sort of extra technology inside it so we had to wait a while but eventually the e-tron sean and proved it's the better car on the limit by some considerable margin however the tesla won our other two challenges it's quicker and a straight line smoother on the road and offers more flexibility when it comes to interior space and that makes it the electric SUV we both go for you\n"