Re:Tesla's team to suppress driving range complaints (2023)
by viraptor on Monday March 10, 2025 @08:02AM
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It's not that great for a solution. You can set the 90% in other cars too. With the extra benefit of being able to use 100% when you occasionally want to.
Re:Tesla's team to suppress driving range complaints (2023)
by masklinn on Monday March 10, 2025 @08:22AM
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> You can set the 90% in other cars too.
That has to be an option, which you need to know exists, and actively use.
Hell, bmw could expose that exact same setting the other way around, and maybe they do. But defaults are important, and from a UX perspective I think they have the better one.
Re:Tesla's team to suppress driving range complaints (2023)
by viraptor on Monday March 10, 2025 @08:51AM
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90% can be the default too. My point is that making that behaviour enforced and hidden is not a great from the UX pov
Re:Tesla's team to suppress driving range complaints (2023)
by masklinn on Monday March 10, 2025 @10:51AM
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That’s not a point, just an opinion.
Re:Tesla's team to suppress driving range complaints (2023)
by r00fus on Monday March 10, 2025 @02:06PM
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My "compliance car" cheapo Ford Focus EV had about 5% over-provisioning. It realistically got its range estimate for the past 7 years except in winter which reduced the range about 20%. It's starting to lose range now on year 8.
Many non-Teslas are also over-provisioned (my 2nd EV is as well based on YT testing videos).
Ah so BMW advertises (and charges to I assume?) 10% less capacity than actual, which both reduces wear and allows regen even on full battery?
That's actually pretty cool. They're effectively sacrificing marketing for user experience.