Range anxiety is becoming a thing of the past largely, as charging infrastructure improves and modern electric vehicles can travel farther than their predecessors. While some models still come up short, there’s no shortage of long-distance options with beefy battery packs.

Notably, the Lucid Air Grand Touring set a Guinness World Record for the longest journey by an electric car on a single charge in 2025. It traveled 748.8 miles (1,205 km), but that record has now been beaten by an Audi.

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European Rally Champion Miko Marczyk recently set the new record in an A6 Sportback e-tron performance. The attempt started in Zakopane, Poland, where the Tatra Mountains provided plenty of opportunities to use regenerative braking.

The route eventually took him to Kraków, then along the Vistula Valley to Sandomierz. Marczyk eventually traveled through “Puławy, Warsaw, Płock, Włocławek, Toruń, Grudziądz and the Tri-City area before reaching Hel.” At that point, he turned around and started retracing his steps. When the car finally ran out of juice, between Toruń and Ciechocinek, it had gone 831.4 miles (1,338 km) on a single charge.

That’s an insane figure considering the car has a combined range of between 423 and 482 miles (681 – 776 km). It’s also impressive as the A6 Sportback e-tron performance has a rear-mounted motor with 362 hp (270 kW / 367 PS) and 417 lb-ft (565 Nm) of torque. This means it’s no slouch, as 0-62 mph (100 km/h) comes in 5.4 seconds, before topping out at 131 mph (210 km/h).

Marczyk noted the record was set on public roads, open to traffic, and “many sections” were “covered during rush hour.” Despite this, the A6 achieved an average energy consumption of 7.09 kWh/62 miles (7.09 kWh/100 km).

The racer went on to say, “I believe … the electric vehicle technology developed over many years by the Volkswagen Group ranks among the best in the world. For decades, the Group’s combustion engines led their respective segments. Today, its electric-drive technology is also at the forefront of the industry, and I am delighted that we have been able to demonstrate its potential.”

Interestingly, Marczyk now has Guinness World Records titles for both ICE and electric vehicles. In 2025, he set the record for the “greatest distance driven on a single tank of fuel” in a Skoda Superb. The racer traveled 1,759 miles (2,831 km), achieving an average fuel consumption of just 2.6 L/100 km (90.4 mpg US).

After 445 days, 92 countries, and six continents, a VW ID. Buzz has received a Guinness World Record for the most countries visited in a continuous journey by a BEV. What’s perhaps even more impressive than the journey itself is that the car apparently didn’t experience a single breakdown.

Rainer Zietlow drove the ID. Buzz throughout the journey, covering 62,036 miles (99,767 km), leaving Hannover, Germany, on July 1, 2025, and returning on September 14. At the end of the journey, VW’s all-electric van had retained 95.75 percent of its original battery capacity.

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The ID. Buzz used for the epic road trip was the Pro model, equipped with an 86-kWh battery pack that gives it up to 309 miles (497 km) of WLTP range. While this is far from class-leading in the ultra-competitive EV space, it was enough for Zietlow to cross through countries, proving just how easy it can be to live with an EV.

This isn’t to say it was always easy to charge the ID. Buzz. In Tanzania and Zambia, there’s no public charging network, so the VW had to be charged at national substations to keep the journey going. The EV was moved across countries and continents using container ships.

Zietlow was probably especially grateful he’d embarked on the ambitious adventure with an EV rather than a combustion-powered car, as gasoline prices have soared this year. In total, they made more than 300 charging stops to keep the ID. Buzz running, with Zietlow noting that China is “in a league of its own” when it comes to charging networks and broad EV adoption.

Throughout the journey, the VW was driven across the base of Australia from Sydney to Perth, shipped over to South Africa, and driven across Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, and Kenya. The trip also included Asia, crossing through Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, and through most of Central and Western Europe, South America, and North America.