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My car just tracks the energy use over the last X kilometers and adapts the range accordingly. Of course it doesn't know if the next X kilometers will be all uphill or downhill so it's till just an estimate but it's definitely not exaggerating in a problematic way.
…the article is referring to range claims on the website/adverts not in car/on the dashboard.
Teslas also lie on the dash. They just quickly drop to their real range once you start driving.
Not the car, the company. Tesla records every mile driven by every model of tesla car. They can give the actual true average range as the general estimate per model. Instead, they intentionally overestimated the range and now are begrudgingly adjusting it because the DOJ opened a probe to investigate them for fraud.
Mine too. I more mean that what is put on the sticker for sales. That should be an accurate average range for normal use.
Yes we can haggle over "normal use" but the bottom line is that the ranges advertised should be better representative of reality.