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Re:Winter chills limit range of the Tesla Model S electric car by baddox on Sunday February 17, 2013 @02:29AM (#5234492)
Reading all these reviews (and the occasional response from Musk), I'm surprised by how complicated the accounts seem to be. Just once, I want to hear "the car predicted x miles remaining, and it turned out to have y miles remaining." But instead, everything is complicated by multiple readouts ("rated" and "projected"?!), ambient temperature, inside temperature, rate of speed, terrain, amount of regenerative breaking (by the way, it sounded like this is another reviewer under the mistaken impression that regenerative breaking yields a net positive on the battery, which is preposterous), etc. The cynic in me is tempted to think that Tesla purposefully made the range estimations complicated to make it difficult to say for sure whether the car fell short of its estimated range.
Re:Winter chills limit range of the Tesla Model S electric car by waterlesscloud on Sunday February 17, 2013 @04:23AM (#5234686)
Tesla could do themselves a big favor by simplifying the display of range estimates. And improving their accuracy. It sounds like the kind of thing where you have to always assume it's a lot less than is being displayed.

How does that help anyone, including Tesla?