If it's possible, every car maker can "optimize towards benchmark".

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.