Tesla exaggerating EV range for over a decade::undefined

  • thejml@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    This is honestly true for the ICE estimates as well. It’s just that people have a lot more range anxiety when they can’t find a refueling spot every other street corner.

    Not that I’m condoning it. And not that they’ve always gotten away with it. They need to be held accountable to come up with reasonable range expectations.

    • BobKerman3999@feddit.it
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      1 year ago

      But also ICE are so inefficient that a small percentage change doesn’t affect them so much because you’re wasting 80% of the energy anyway so you load up megawatts hour of power when you refuel. On BEVs losing 4kw of power for heating or other stuff means a lot because you waste only around 5% of the energy, so adding 1 or 2 or 3% of other losses will impact the small energy storage you have.