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Do the Tesla range estimates not adapt to recent driving? I drive a Chevy Volt, and it "learns" from recent drives and will estimate range partly based on that
by thinkling 3y ago
Do the Tesla range estimates not adapt to recent driving?
I drive a Chevy Volt, and it "learns" from recent drives and will estimate range partly based on that, so it'll adapt to weather effects and to highway vs city driving patterns. It feels like there's both a short-term adjustment (updating range during a drive) and a more medium-term adjustment (estimating how far it can go on a full charge the next day), but they may be the same thing in practice.
There's a lot of "people have too much range anxiety, you'll want to stop every 2 hours anyway", but if you get ~50% of EPA range in the winter (per graph in TFA) and on road trips you only recharge 70% of that range (10% back to 80%), you're now down to 35% of the promised ~330mi range = 110miles. Bleh.
- bryanlarsen 3y agoYes Tesla's do adapt to conditions and recent driving. Both the navigation and the energy graph display very accurate predictions of range. They also display a nominal number doesn't vary for conditions. This nominal number is useful for comparison