Model S Long Range Plus: Building the First 400-Mile Electric Vehicle
I've been following a multi-month discussion over in the r/electricvehicles subreddit about EPA range. There's a growing consensus that something is very wrong with it.<p>Here are a couple of the articles that got some discussion in that sub:<p><a href="https://insideevs.com/news/407807/eletric-car-real-world-range-tested/" rel="nofollow">https://insideevs.com/news/407807/eletric-car-real-world-ran...</a><p><a href="https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a30874032/porsche-taycan-range-test-tesla-model-s/" rel="nofollow">https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a30874032/porsche-tayca...</a><p>As someone who has owned both a Tesla Model X and one of the other EVs on the list from the first article, I can also provide my own anecdata that at freeway speeds Tesla routinely underperforms their EPA range rating, and by quite a large margin. Meanwhile at freeway speeds my non-Tesla EV routinely exceeds its EPA rating.<p>That's not to say that Tesla hasn't done an amazing job at maximizing efficiency in their cars. They have. Just maybe not to the degree that the EPA test would suggest.