Still impressive, but not exactly shocking for a sedan with a 150kWh battery to be capable of this range. I think the more impressive thing is cramming 150kWh of battery into a 4 door sedan.
The 1044km claim is from a livestream where the CEO of the company drove the car from Shanghai to Xiamen until there's 3% left in the battery. All this amid a cold wave too.
> The temperature during the test was between -2 °C and 12 °C (28 – 54 °F). The coldest time was at the beginning of the test, as it was early morning in Shanghai. The average cabin temperature was 20 °C (68 °F). The carload was about 190 kg (two adults, lifestream equipment, and other items).
A livestream is hard to fake but what tires were they using? What was the climate control setting? What speed? Did they have a tail wind?
The maximum speed was caped to 90 km/hour (56 miles/hour), and the energy consumption was 13.2 kWh/100 km. The average speed for the trip was 83.9 km/h.
In May 2018, Sean Mitchell and Erik Strait set a hypermiling record for the Tesla Model 3 by driving 606.2 miles on a single charge after 32 hours of driving.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-autopilot-staged-engineer...
And they clearly can use a rigged car, cherrypick conditions etc. If it even were live.
But I generally don't like to throw legal terms around unless it's been proven in court.
You can have a 75 kWh battery most of the time, swap to a 150 kWh for a road trip, and then swap back to a 75 kWh for your daily driving.
It means you don't own the battery, but it also means you can change to a new battery whenever you want.
NIO are already doing at least part of that by charging the batteries during time of excess energy only
Tesla guarantees the battery for 8 years or 192,000km. If the battery degraded to below 80% of spec, they replace it for free.
Meaning that probably 95% or more of their batteries still have a higher capacity at that point. Modern EV batteries are really good.
A car that's 8 years old or has 192,000km will probably have lost about 70% of its resale value.
How has the car held up other than the battery? You say it has wear and tear like a 10 year old car but that can mean drastically different things depending on how people normally maintain their cars and what kinds of environments they drive in (local to me in upstate NY we use a lot of salt on the roads, an average 10 year old car is likely going to be nearing to the end of its life due to rust issues whose repair cost may equal a substantial portion of the value of the car).