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Tesla discloses DOJ probes over vehicle range, personal benefits and more
- imglorp 3y agoIs that a typo for "personnel benefits"?
- toomuchtodo 3y agoPotential self dealing from the company. "Elon perks" or similar. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/self-dealing https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/self-dealing
- Sohcahtoa82 3y agoNope. The article gives a concrete example: > The Wall Street Journal reported in August that federal prosecutors were investigating whether Tesla used company funds to design and build a “glass house project” for Musk. Last year, Reuters reported that a federal criminal investigation was underway concerning Tesla’s claims that its cars were self-driving.
- martinky24 3y agoDid you read the article?
- rsynnott 3y agoIt is considered most improper, on this website to _actually ready the article_. You're _supposed_ to read the headline, and imagine what you think the article is about. Or at least this is the only conclusion I can come to from 15 years on this website. Assuming that the headline is a typo is an unusual one, granted.
- runnr_az 3y agoWe knew this was coming - there’s no other reason Musk would have pivoted so hard into Republican politics if he wasn’t looking for allies to push back on investigations
- pizzafeelsright 3y agoCould there be any other explanation?
- gumballindie 3y agoInsanity.
- colechristensen 3y agoSleep deprivation, excessive attention, too much success. Too much validation does weird things to people.
- pcbro141 3y agoCould be he actually strongly believes in those ideologies, like millions of other people do.
- constantly 3y agoFor better or worse, Elon seems to be an extremely smart person. Notably I’m not a fan and purchased a Rivian over a Tesla due to his antics, in addition to signing out of Twitter and not using it for months.
- jaimex2 3y agoAmerica is so weird. To someone on the outside it just seems like the two parties just take turns getting into power and ordering all the agencies in their control to harass their 'enemies'.
- saurik 3y agoFWIW, that is also how it feels to a lot of us who live inside it as well.
- jmcgough 3y agoOr, one corrupt party ignores illegal activity because they personally benefit from it, and the other chooses to enforce laws when they're in power.
- gjsman-1000 3y agoIn a sense; yes. On the other hand, there are a surprising number of aspects where the parties inexplicably agree to do something, or not do something, when their constituents don't agree ("Uniparty" behavior). Note that I am not talking about what they vocally support, but what they choose to do or not do. Examples: Right to Repair. Housing affordability. Inflation. Surveillance state. TSA ineffectiveness. China. Etc.
- skepticATX 3y agoThe DOJ is supposed to be independent. Even if you don’t think that it is, it consists of mostly civil servants who remain across administrations. Our institutions are not perfect but there are enough good people working for them that I think it’d be tough to do what you suggest at a large scale.
- idontwantthis 3y agoHow do electric car ranges get determined? It’s called “EPA Range” so I figured that the company gives a car to the EPA and the agency runs it from 100-0 under fixed conditions. Is that not the case? Or would Tesla be doing some kind of VW-esque cheat here?
- maxerickson 3y agoThe EPA isn't calculating the range displayed on the dashboard.
- jackmott42 3y agoon the tesla, they are as the baseline, the multiplied by estimated capacity remaining
- maxerickson 3y agoIs the argument then that what Tesla is doing makes sense? The EPA range estimate is designed to generate a number that is comparable between vehicles, for some definition of typical driving. It isn't all that reasonable to expect it to always apply to the various conditions that vehicles might be operating in.
- jackmott42 3y agoIt is a bit more complicated than that, car makers do the test themselves, EPA can spot check, and manufactures can choose between two methods, one of which comes up with a bigger number, and is reflective more of city driving than highway driving. imho, I fault the EPA for not having a sensible highway range/city range as a standard, then none of this would be an issue
- pseudosavant 3y agoEPA mileage ratings, gas, diesel, and electric are all submitted by the manufacturers themselves. Sometimes if the car is similar enough to another car (Toyota Avalon and Camry) they won't even test it and just give it the same number. Car and Driver have a very thorough breakdown of published range versus their "real world 75mph highway test". https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a44676201/ev-range-epa-vs-real-world-tested/ https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a44676201/ev-range-epa... Mercedes' worst car only gets 3% over the published range. Most Porsche's are above their range. Tesla's best vehicles are only 20% below their rated range. The worst Teslas are 30% below their stickers. Easily the worst in the entire industry. Their average for the BEV industry is 13% below the sticker range. So Tesla is 2-3x worse than average. For comparison against gas vehicles. Across all of their tests, ICE vehicles tend to perform 4% better than their sticker.