Lemmy as a whole appears to irrationally hate Tesla because of their stupid CEO. I think his penchant for calling what is essentially “advanced autopilot” FULL SELF DRIVING should be illegal. But he’s a car salesman and for some reason the government is letting him call it that. Be mad at our lawmakers for that. He’s just a sheister and our lawmakers suck at reining him in. Tesla cars themselves are actually really good. Very safe cars that don’t roll over because of the heavy battery located so low, very responsive acceleration, and some nice quality of life low hanging fruit in the technology department, like my phone being a key. I was told by my Tesla rep when I bought the car to not buy FSD. It’s experimental and will not ever probably be driving you to your destination safely. The fact that they sell it with a name that implies it will is the problem. And people believe it. That’s incredibly dangerous.

On the same note of blame the lawmakers

There’s a lot of hate about Teslas cars not reaching EPA estimates on highways.

The EPA test is the problem. The test doesn’t include real world driving such as at 70mph and for whatever reasons, a Tesla often takes a bigger hit at 70mph than some other cars.

I don’t doubt Tesla did some ratio optimization on the motors to get better EPA numbers, that’s just playing the game, but please lobby the EPA to change the testing methodology.

Tests need to better include faster driving. Manufacturers should be required to show both numbers not a combined number, and they really need to add some sort of cold weather test.

This infuriates me to no end. The EPA could just mandate multiple numbers!

I want a graph of the car going every speed between 55, 65, 75, and 85 on a treadmill at 0, 25, 50, 75, and 100°F while maintaining a cabin temp of 72°F.

I want to know how much battery it used doing the above in stop and go traffic for an hour.

“Combined blah” is horseshit.