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> And the Tesla is known for rigging its EPA tests for higher, but illusory, numbers. By that you must mean Tesla bothers to do the full suite of EPA tests ins
by vardump 5y ago
> And the Tesla is known for rigging its EPA tests for higher, but illusory, numbers.
By that you must mean Tesla bothers to do the full suite of EPA tests instead of accepting a somewhat penalizing multiplier, like how other manufacturers do?
There's no rigging whatsoever and the same option is available for other manufacturers as well. If they bother to do the longer and more demanding test cycle, that is.
- sfblah 5y agoNobody cares exactly how a company gets unrealistically high numbers. What matters is as a consumer your experience won’t match the company’s claims. Best would be for companies just to tell the truth. C.f. the “full self driving” falsehood.
- vkou 5y agoAnyone who has bought a car in the last 50 years is already well aware of how much EPA mileage differs from actual mileage. My old 2010 Prius was EPA-rated for 50 MPG. If I drove it with kid gloves over flat terrain, I could hit that mileage. If I drove it in a way that doesn't piss other road users off, I would get closer to 46 MPG. If I was doing 80+ MPH over the Rockies on the Trans-Canada, I'd be getting a cool 35 MPG, because air resistance is very high at those speeds, and because most of my braking was exceeding the regenerative capacity of the car.