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> Their setup is downright silly (never exceeding 60 miles an hour? I live very close to a highway with an 85 mph speed limit) It was designed to emulate the m
by ajross 3y ago
> Their setup is downright silly (never exceeding 60 miles an hour? I live very close to a highway with an 85 mph speed limit)
It was designed to emulate the median highway mile traveled for the purposes of gasoline consumption estimates, not to guess at what customers understand "a highway" to be, semantically. And it actually does a pretty good job. To first approximation, the kind of open-freeway-wind-in-your-hair kind of travel is noise. Most "highway" miles are on urban commutes.
- hn_throwaway_99 3y agoIt's a horrible metric for EVs. I own an EV (not a Tesla) and probably average 75% of the stated range, and much less than that when I'm in situations where it matters. Most importantly, the "wind-in-your-hair kind of travel" that you call "noise" is exactly the kind of travel where EV owners care most about accurate range estimates.
- ajross 3y agoIt may be, but I repeat that it's not "silly" for a metric concerned with aggregate consumption to reflect driving conditions that match aggregate reality and not vacation travel. Should there be a metric for EV owners to yell about that measure "Road Trip Range"? Maybe! But that's not what the existing efficiency measures were designed to do.