Re:Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of drivin...
by rootusrootus on Thursday July 27, 2023 @10:07AM
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It doesn’t use average usage to calculate the remaining range, it uses EPA numbers which are 200 Wh/mi or less. Which, interestingly, is less than the consumption shown on the Monroney sticker. How they can show two contradictory numbers on the same official document is fascinating to me.
Re:Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of drivin...
by tekla on Thursday July 27, 2023 @10:14AM
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I meant EPA average usage
Re:Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of drivin...
by cowsandmilk on Thursday July 27, 2023 @10:07AM
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> computer only can assume based on average usage
It is clear from the discussion that it isn’t basing it on that at all. Would be overjoyed if it was based on average efficiency for the last 50 miles I drove. It isn’t.
Re:Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of drivin...
by tekla on Thursday July 27, 2023 @10:14AM
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I meant EPA average usage. And good it shouldn't.
Re:Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of drivin...
by mlyle on Thursday July 27, 2023 @11:32AM
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Very few people attain EPA average efficiency, so insisting on putting a range indicator based on EPA averages seems silly.
Most ICE cars calculate range based on a long term average of a person's usage with some small amount of pessimism. Why should an EV do worse?
Are you implying its strange that the Tesla can calculate a more accurate range estimate when you literally tell it where you want to go to its computer which can use map data to calculate energy usage, versus you just driving around in circles in a arbitrary area and the computer only can assume based on EPA average usage?