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Isn't that the EPA's fault not Tesla's fault? It's just a metric for comparison really. My expectation is that other manufacturer's vehicles that generally hav

Isn't that the EPA's fault not Tesla's fault? It's just a metric for comparison really. My expectation is that other manufacturer's vehicles that generally have shorter ranges would have a real-world deviation from real world ranges. Unless Tesla is unique in having ranges well below the EPA rating, then we really shouldn't be pointing the finger at Tesla, but the EPA system.

Veserv 3y ago
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a43657072/evs-fall-short-epa-estimates-sae-article/ https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a43657072/evs-fall-short-e... “… Tesla, meanwhile, pursues an impressive figure for its window stickers, and ends up returning real-world results that are on average two times as far off the label value as most EVs.” https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/ https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-ba... “One of the experts, Gregory Pannone, co-authored a study of 21 different brands of electric vehicles, published in April by SAE International, an engineering organization. The research found that, on average, the cars fell short of their advertised ranges by 12.5% in highway driving. The study did not name the brands tested, but Pannone told Reuters that three Tesla models posted the worst performance, falling short of their advertised ranges by an average of 26%.“ Also the part where customers with range complaints were prevented from booking service appointments and a special team was formed to cancel range-related service appointments that lied claiming remote diagnostics showed no problems when they did not run remote diagnostics at all. You know, the sort of behavior that fine upstanding companies that are not trying to hide problems do.