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Why Tesla won’t lose sleep over other automakers achieving range ratings
- mwint 5y agoTL;DR article (and Musk) says the extra battery required to do this is dead weight 99% of the time. I guess the question is if Tesla stumbled on a feasible battery technology that double energy per weight, would they choose to make an 800mi car that weighs the same, or a 400mi car with half the battery weight?
- clouddrover 5y ago> The landscape of the EV industry has become so obsessed with these incredible metrics that many consumers forget they won’t need over 600 miles of range. How many gas car drivers go to a dealership thinking, “I will only buy a car if it offers me 620 miles of driving on a tank?” I will only buy a car if it offers me 400 miles of driving on a tank. I'll take more if I can get it, especially in an EV which takes longer to charge than an ICE car takes to refuel. > “We could’ve made a 600-mile Model S 12 months ago, but that would’ve made the product worse imo, as 99.9% of time you’d be carrying unneeded battery mass, which makes acceleration, handling & efficiency worse,” Musk said recently. The Mercedes EQXX used 87 kWh to cover 1,000 km (621 miles). That's less than the usable kilowatt hours in a Model S. The EQXX could achieve 643 km (400 miles) on this test using 56 kWh. That's less than the usable capacity in a Model 3 Long Range (76 kWh) and is almost the usable capacity of a Model 3 Standard Range Plus (52 kWh).