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I really have:
I'm so confused. VW did not "optimize" anything, they cheated. You started out saying Tesla was not cheating (like VW) and now you repeatedly seem to suggest that they are. Which one is it?
You are contradicting your own self. How do we know that? Based on "real life" testing/experience? Which you have suggested is useless?
And I will but I also have shit to do so you're going to have to wait.
There was no improvement in efficiency. The improvement was in the testing methodology.
You're just hand-waving the more rational explanation.
You can't optimise for the test, thats what VW did, they optimised fuel flow, power, etc. A)and thats what got the huge fine because its cheating. They didn't get out and push the car round or fit hidden fuel tanks.
You're the one who defined these tests as real world, me i will take an average of results excluding outliers adding weight to real owners results.
For this, nobody was getting over 300 miles from normal, mixed driving. This test at 330 miles ish, lmao.
I also don't live in a fantasy land that the car can get this level of economy. Also the 2026 year did have some modest boosts to efficency, nowhere near a 25% increase that these results show.
Honestly this pedantry and lack of any evidence all you have? You haven't even looked at the details of the test for the 2026 car.
Yes you absolutely can.
Again, they did not "optimize" anything, they cheated by running a completely different fuel map in production than they did in testing.
Call them what you want, I'm not engaging in a semantics argument over it.
LOL sounds a lot like "real world" results to me.
Tesla does not have model years. They had small increases with the "highland" Model 3. This does not coincide with the changes from EPA.
Your failure to understand the situation is not pedantry.