Tesla is a giant shell-game masquerading as a car company. The important thing about Tesla isn’t its cars, it’s Tesla’s business arrangement, the Tesla-Financial Complex:
Why linking to an article that simply repeats what the original Reuters article says, but in an exxagerated, sensationalized and occasionally downright misleading way? To be clear, I’m never buying a Tesla for the exact reasons described in either article, and more, but I prefer things being stated more factually, less sensational:
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/
I never fully understood this Reuters range investigation. I have had a Tesla Model 3 for many years now, and it tells me I can go, say, 290 miles on a full charge. When I plan a long road trip, it figures out I need to stop at a charger after about 275 miles so I have a few percent left. So I drive the 275 miles, get to the charger with roughly that amount of % charge left, charge my car and keep on going. If I really only had 150 miles of range, there’s no way I would’ve ever reached that charger. I’ve done trips like this many times now. In my experience the advertised range is more or less realistic, and this is easily provable with any car.
Is it a quality control issue? Are people being confused by the massive effect temperatures have on EV range? It doesn’t seem like the major conspiracy it’s made out to be. Mishandled though, probably.
My car only goes 180 miles… congrats on getting a good one though.
Which model/year do you have? Is that fairly consistent throughout the year?
Drops significantly during winter, perhaps to 120 miles.
2018 model 3 Long Range.
That sounds way off. For a LR that would be 388 Wh/km, which is incredibly bad. Normal values should be 150-200 Wh/km unless you’re pulling a trailer or going 200+ km/h.
I go around 80mph on average, which I would think is normal in America.
This is also with the AC off btw, that is my max range. Clocked 6 or 7 times.
Yeah, please get a battery health check done and contact Tesla for battery replacement under warranty. My SR+ goes further than that at this speed.
You should probably go do a battery health check. If your range is that bad, your battery degradation should be within warranty replacement range.
