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by dheera 1253 days ago
Totally agree, EPA ranges are bullshit. The real world has these things called hills that they've probably never heard of in Washington DC. It also doesn't snow much in in DC so they probably don't know about that either.

They really should be reporting 50% of their ranges as standard. When people get slightly better than that, they'll be pleasantly surprised and it will result in much more customer satisfaction across the board.

ALWAYS underpromise and overdeliver if you want happy customers.

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>>ALWAYS underpromise and overdeliver if you want happy customers.

not if you have customers comparing you promise to competitions promise. In this case you will never have option to deliver anything

The EPA doesn't have competitors, they can totally do this just to increase electric car satisfaction which will help drive adoption.

Everyone will be all over social media with videos saying how their car was rated for 300km but they got 400km out of it and EVs will start getting very, very positive reviews.