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Tesla warns that a federal probe into whether it exaggerated the range of its cars may lead to a ‘material adverse impact on our business’ (fortune.com)
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Tesla warns that a federal probe into whether it exaggerated the range of its cars may lead to a ‘material adverse impact on our business’::Earlier this year, Reuters reported that Tesla had created a special “diversions team” to avoid dealing with complaints from customers about their vehicle ranges. 

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's top line number is basically the estimated range at 250WH/mi given the cars estimate of battery capacity.

It's not hard to get or even beat 250WH/mi in good weather on relatively flat highway if you are moderately careful about it. It's definitely an upper limit though, which I think is appropriate. I don't care how much range the car has with a lead foot. Top Gear showed that an M3 can get better mileage than a Prius when both are doing performance laps, so that's kind of just a dumb way to measure range/efficiency.