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On orders from Elon Musk, Tesla employees implemented driving range calculations that fakes a longer range in the beginning of your trip and catches up with reality as you approach your destination.

The effect? When potential buyers take a new Tesla on a short test drive, they only see the inflated range numbers, and are fooled into thinking Tesla's perform better.

Dare I say… it is almost as if Elon Musk is not an honest man.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/

Tesla’s secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints

About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” projections of how far owners can drive before needing to recharge, a source told Reuters.

Reuters

Reiner Jung 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 🇪🇺Jul 28, 2023

@randahl Sounds like a car company lying about the features of the car. Who would have thought that.

Let's make our life less car dependent. @notjustbikes

Lstn2urmama 🇨🇦Jul 28, 2023

@randahl ..well how else do you think he made money... just as everyone on Twitter everything is now compromised in their lives with thie Xcorp that is an information hunting company and will bet everyone has it now in all pieces of machines used for internet and instituted in all walks of our lives ...now for last month at least... and probably a domino effect they contact lists...just like him using someone else's trade name owned by Meta...not sure for how much longer will be safe to use

Jonatan Hildén Jul 28, 2023

@randahl
Reminded me of this interesting Finnish project: crowd-sourced testing of EVs in real-world conditions. Site in Finnish only, but should be easy for machine translation. Kesä is summer, kevät spring, talvi winter and yhdistetty combined.

https://fltp.fi/dl/6471c6

FLTP.fi

Finnish Light Vehicles Test Procedure, eli suomalaisiin oloihin suunniteltu kulutustestaus.

Rollie James Dadiro Jul 28, 2023

@randahl what the heck he's doing here?

Jay Peach Jul 28, 2023

@randahl why dont they just send💩 emojis? Elmo is such a crook/scammer.

Nicole Parsons Jul 28, 2023

Tesla's lead in the EV industry is being used to discredit the entire transition to EV.

Just as anticipated. By the Saudi oil despots who helped Musk take Tesla private after massive government subsidies.

Syulang Jul 28, 2023

@Npars01 @randahl

Wyvernsridge 🌻

@Syulang @Npars01 @randahl look at the #Aptera

Randahl Fink Jul 28, 2023

@Npars01 I disagree. There is no conspiracy. Reuters brings this story because it is important, and any journalist would do so — not to damage the reputation of EV’s but to tell the truth about Elon Musk and what kind of businessman he is.

Nicole Parsons Jul 29, 2023

The Saudi-Russian alliance is real.

Petrostates are desperate to thwart the transition away from oil.

Reuters is reporting on two stories:
1. An inept man driving his companies into the ground
2. A coordinated plan to keep the planet hooked on gasoline driven cars.

The oil industry has done it before.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Electric_Car%3F

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/aug/03/lost-history-electric-car-future-transport

https://cleantechnica.com/2021/09/30/the-legendary-electric-car-from-the-1970s-that-led-us-electric-car-sales-until-tesla-came-along/

Who Killed the Electric Car? - Wikipedia

Coach Pāṇini ®Jul 29, 2023

@Npars01 @randahl
Musk’s consumer insight was that the customer always gets what she wants and she wants to treat her car like her phone: a leasable electronic appendage.

The car industry will try to enshittify cars, like Big Tech has done with ad-supported social media, fiddling with proprietary settings that lock users into ecosystems they don’t control and/or just pay a premium to keep or get value.

@pluralistic articulates more in this podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/78367iWxttDwsSz0VYJbIw?si=4rAtI1m2TmCIKS-qvQfKQg&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A6p3eeOcYWx01Ljd5PWSQoC

how big tech makes the internet worse, with cory doctorow

Listen to this episode from What's Gonna Happen on Spotify. how are people like bezos, zuck, and musk able to destroy the online world a little more every day? this week evangelia and emily are excited to host renowned journalist, science fiction author, and digital rights activist, cory doctorow to discuss how exactly internet platforms cut corners to take us for all we’ve got and what we can do about it. all of the links to cory’s content are available at https://pluralistic.net/ and https://craphound.com/

Spotify

Sir David Nielsen Jul 28, 2023

@randahl @bsdphk Elon being a shitbag, why I never. Why this man isn’t being nut punched on a daily basis, I will never understand.

xs4me2 Jul 28, 2023

The Musk way, we should know by now…

Daniel Halley Jul 28, 2023

@randahl exactly bit like his twitter now gone down hill

Phil Rees Jul 28, 2023

@randahl Dare I say ... it is almost as if Jeremy Clarkson was right.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/mar/05/top-gear-tesla-jeremy-clarkson

Top Gear row: Tesla loses appeal over Jeremy Clarkson review

Appeal court dismisses claim that show damaged car's sales, after manufacturer gets into online spat with New York Times. By Josh Halliday

The Guardian

Alice Dubiel 🔬💉🦠😷🌬☮️Jul 28, 2023

@randahl https://mastodon.green/@odaraia/110791905221669881

Alice Dubiel (@[email protected])

@randahl Tesla received massive support from US government in tax concessions, privileged land use, code waivers. Its dominant PR focuses on #selfdriving cars controlled by the corporation. The #mileageresets reveal another aspect of Tesla’s centralized control over its fleet while elected officials tout their support for high tech #renewables bona fides. Union suppression at factories. Complicity, #surveillance , control, these are Musk interests.

Mastodon.green

ˈdälfən™🐬 💥 🌊Jul 28, 2023

@randahl Quite the con... I mean business man

ngmi Jul 28, 2023

@randahl isn't this like... Illegal?

Randahl Fink Jul 28, 2023

@ngmi I am convinced the EU will tear him apart in court.

George Zimbragos Jul 31, 2023

@randahl I imagine that this has just as much to do with Tesla assuming that I'm a sensible driver, then having to catch up with the fact that I'm addicted to 0-100kph in 2.9s.

Randahl Fink Jul 31, 2023

@quanta I recommend reading the article.