I wonder how much of this will translate to real world driving. Teslas have generally significantly underperformed in real world range compared to EPA. This reads very much like they're optimizing more towards a benchmark.
The same thing happens with ICE cars. I drove a Cadillac that would get like 27-28 mpg highway but 10 in the city, as they used gearing and cylinder management to optimize highway mpg.
- teslas have a big battery, range anxiety is not a problem
- it is possible and even easy to drive inefficiently
Other electric cars have small batteries, and small motors which combine to reward frugal driving.
About the size of the motors, the Tesla one are actually not that big. Which is a good thing.
So is your theory that all car makers except Tesla are dumb and cannot optimize their range for EPA tests?
That they are morally superior to Tesla and will sacrifice sales by not optimizing for EPA range but some purported "real world range"?
And in what way exactly do you optimize for EPA test?
I've seen this "explanation" for superior Tesla results many times but somehow no-one actually explains how do you make a battery or electric motor or drag coefficient of the car that is optimized for EPA test but doesn't generalize to regular driving.
Like VW optimizing cars towards benchmark. Doesn't always ends great.
They were not producing any fake output data from the sensors, just "optimizing" engine behavior.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/10/08/446861855...