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by superkuh 1056 days ago
There's no getting around cold climates re: limited EV range like the guy in the article. It makes me wonder if there's a geographic pattern to the issues and if the 'optimistic' mode is ignoring outside temperature.

Cold climates also prevent any sort of absolute positioning awareness based autonomous driving since in winter the road lane positions are emergent and more of a function of human flocking than the underlying obscured road markings or edges.
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asifgnionio 1056 days ago
The optimistic mode is alleged to ignore outside temperature. This is mentioned on the second page of the article:

>Other data cited by Reuters found that Tesla cars "almost always calculated that they could travel more than 90 percent of their advertised EPA range estimates regardless of external temperatures."

All EVs encounter cold weather, but most of them pretty much hit their range ratings regardless. Why should Tesla be different?

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