Auto Expert Uncovers Hidden Truth About EV Range Claims – Owners Should Be Seething
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It’s based in reality, and you’ll have the same problem with petrol/diesel cars.
The EPA, WLTP and NEDC driving cycles ate performed indoors in a lab, and shouldn’t be used to check what to expect IRL, but to compare two different cars in the same segment.
An EV with 400mi EPA range will do better in almost all circumstances compared to an EV with 300mi EPA range.
Will you ever get 400 miles out of your Tesla Model S?
Yes, during calm, dry summer evenings driving less than 70mph.
Will you get 24mpg out of your F150? Not during winter and/or high speeds.
But because the F150 has at least twice the range of the Tesla Model S, we’ve learned to live with the huge fluctuations in mpg on ICE cars.
My last ICE, Volvo V90, fluctuated between 25 and 60mpg, based on speed and weather.
The average buyer didn't see it that way. In their "real world" they were never able to come within 10-16% of the numbers on the sticker. The numbers on that sticker were all facts with the exception of the "negotiable" sticker price and those numbers put on the stick by an agency who told the manufacturers that they had to even though the agency didn't actually have the authority to make them do it...
The average buyer is an idiot.
If you think about how dumb the average person is, half of the population is even dumber.
The EPA range is a driving cycle following a certain set of conditions. You’ll never be able to see that number unless you drive according to those conditions or better.
I have no problem getting those numbers now during summer doing 60mph or less. Winter doing 90? No way.
Fren you need to lighten up. Because you should be celebrating the mortal hit the Administrative state took last week. Not justifying and rationalizing their overreaches.. Do me a favor this week, take a day or a half day and go do something tha makes you happy. Something purely for enjoyment. Because you are starting to sweat the small stuff" stuff you cannot control, stuff that is symptoms.. You will be more productive to the movement if you give yourself a chance to breath.. Best wishes.
Thanks for the tip, but this movement needs common sense and facts.
The echo chamber of fake news regarding EVs are on par with the part of this movement that has snowed in on gematria and chemtrails.