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An explosive report published by Reuters this week accused Tesla, and specifically its CEO Elon Musk, of lying to customers about the driving range of the vehicles and also creating a secret "diversion team" to cancel the service appointments of customers that wanted to have their vehicles checked.
Link to the full lists of my 70 mph range tests on InsideEVs: https://insideevs.com/reviews/443791/ev-range-test-results/
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
02:26 Can Tesla vehicles achieve their EPA range ratings
03:35 The EPA doesn’t do the actual range testing
05:14 The EPA 2-cycle test and the 5-cycle test
08:50 The list of every EV since 2012 and which test they used for range certification
10:08 Some automakers publish a lower range number to under-promise and over-deliver
11:49 Did Tesla install software to display more available range than the vehicle had available?
15:58 Did Tesla create a secret "diversion team" to cancel service appointments?
18:06 Will Tesla’s indiscretions set back the push to allow direct sales in the US?
22:15 Are the allegations true, and if so, what happens next?
24:03 How Tesla could have turned customer’s range concerns into a positive
27:01 Outro
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