SANZC02
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Just to add one more example to this conversation.I went to the link and looked at the tabulated data. Edmunds was not able to produce the EPA estimated range with any of the Teslas yet in all cases, except the Performance S, they measured consumption less than the EPA estimates. How can this be?
Clearly there is more to this testing than you are assuming.
I am a sample size of one and have owned two Teslas. With each I realized better than EPA performance when driving it in a manner and under conditions which one would reasonably expect to give better than the EPA estimate and conversely.
I am in SoCal, moderate temps and fairly flat, I can meet the EPA estimates only if I make it a forced effort to accelerate slowly and drive at or below the speed limits.
I have not reset one of my trip meters since day one and it is giving me a 320 Watts per mile average over 41K miles. I think Tesla uses 300 watts per mile for the Model S estimates so I am around 93% of rated range. That number is for my normal driving and not babying the car, I am usually taking advantage of what the car offers and not worrying about range.
My wife recently started driving it as her primary car, I reset one trip meter when she started driving and she is not at 300 but much closer than me at 305.
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