Tesla’s Dieselgate
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:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/edison-not-tesla/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
This appears to be an escalating fraud, affecting newer models more than old. So I'd guess that's ^^ the answer.
It's not just a Reuters investigation, they've been fined by a few jurisdictions and they absolutely do have the ability to pay lawyers to defend those charges if they're false.
Yeah, Doctorow is a good writer, but sometimes he thinks he understands stuff but he doesn't really.
But yet everybody will still suck his dick and post the same enshittification essay like he’s some prophet.
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.
You should probably go do a battery health check. If your range is that bad, your battery degradation should be within warranty replacement range.
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.
Just big oil doing the same thing it’s always done.
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/