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Astroturfing should be illegal
this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2023
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Gas cars do this too.
Years ago I bought an Infiniti truck that advertised 18 mpg. After owning and driving it I only got 9 mpg.
I wish the government would crack down harder on this sort of blatant misleading “advertising” so gas or electric, we’d have a better idea of what we’re purchasing.
Yes but I can usually walk to a gas station, buy a gas can, fill it up, walk back to my car, pour gasoline in the tank and then drive away.
What am I supposed to do if I own a Tesla? Walk to the nearest Lowe’s, purchase a multi fuel generator, attach it to my car, then walk to the gas station, buy a gas can, fill it up, walk back to the car, fill up the generator, crank the generator, hook it up to my car, then drive away?
This is decades-old hypothetical that just doesn't happen in the real world unless the driver is an idiot. Never in the quarter century of driving gas vehicles did I ever run out of gas.
Likewise you don't just suddenly run out of charge in an EV. In Teslas you get automatically routed to superchargers, and if somehow you're too far away from the nearest one, you get miles and miles of warnings about having an insufficient charge to reach it if you, I dunno, somehow camped for days with the A/C on in the middle of nowhere.
In that catastrophic event, you stop literally anywhere with any AC outlet, you plug in your mobile charger, and wait less time than it'd take to hike to a gas station to charge enough to make it to a DC fast charger. Or better yet, someone tow-charges you through regenerative braking for a couple miles and you end up with more than enough to make it to a supercharger.
The article is about total range advertised vs. real world range, and you can go literally anywhere in the lower 48 and be in easy range of a DC fast charger, let alone a 120v outlet.
Dang, which model?
All of them ... or at least most of them. The numbers given are based on limited variables and almost never include qualifiers like proper tire pressure must be maintained, easy acceleration vs flooring it, usage of AC, etc etc ... which all affect fuel consumption rates.
Nobody should expect to reach fuel efficiency targets if they don't even attempt to drive efficiently. Your other points stand though.
It was a QX56 before they renamed it, but like that other guy said, it’s pretty much all of them as the car manufacturers are incentivized to give you the absolute best case usage scenarios for everything, and then slap that on a sticker as if it’s real world data.
Oh wow, even their claimed mileage is terrible.
Tesla jealous of VW.
Lol!
I have come here to say this:
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