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Re:Hyundai Nexo sets new world record 887.5 km travelled on ... by sfblah on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @12:14PM (#27196791)
Nobody cares exactly how a company gets unrealistically high numbers. What matters is as a consumer your experience won’t match the company’s claims. Best would be for companies just to tell the truth. C.f. the “full self driving” falsehood.
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Re:Hyundai Nexo sets new world record 887.5 km travelled on ... by vkou on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @02:26PM (#27198930)
Anyone who has bought a car in the last 50 years is already well aware of how much EPA mileage differs from actual mileage.

My old 2010 Prius was EPA-rated for 50 MPG. If I drove it with kid gloves over flat terrain, I could hit that mileage. If I drove it in a way that doesn't piss other road users off, I would get closer to 46 MPG.

If I was doing 80+ MPH over the Rockies on the Trans-Canada, I'd be getting a cool 35 MPG, because air resistance is very high at those speeds, and because most of my braking was exceeding the regenerative capacity of the car.

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