Reading the article now, I am shocked that EPA just divides by 0.7, instead of calculating the aero drag & acceleration mass. No wonder big, heavy Teslas do worse than their specs, & my small, light BEV does better. Aptera being so much lighter & more aero should make it even better at exceeding EPA specs.
The article says Car&Driver & InsideEVs test only highway range, which someone else claimed is really all that matters, since nobody is going to drive even 150 miles non-stop in city traffic for 8 hours. That seems reasonable, except for those without home or work charging, where more city range can mean more days between charges.
I've heard this theory rumored before, but I'm pretty sure it's wrong, at least for my own BEV: "Over the years, that same software will make more of the total energy capacity available to users..."...:
Every report I've seen from 500e users shows it charges to 4.1 volts per cell, regardless of age or mileage. There are fewer reports of the low-end cutoff but every one I've seen says 3.1 V/cell, also regardless of age/miles. Also, a couple users did precise usable-capacity tests & measured just under 2.3% loss per 10k miles, which would have shown as zero loss if software was reducing the buffers.
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Reading the article now, I am shocked that EPA just divides by 0.7, instead of calculating the aero drag & acceleration mass. No wonder big, heavy Teslas do worse than their specs, & my small, light BEV does better. Aptera being so much lighter & more aero should make it even better at exceeding EPA specs.
The article says Car&Driver & InsideEVs test only highway range, which someone else claimed is really all that matters, since nobody is going to drive even 150 miles non-stop in city traffic for 8 hours. That seems reasonable, except for those without home or work charging, where more city range can mean more days between charges.
I've heard this theory rumored before, but I'm pretty sure it's wrong, at least for my own BEV: "Over the years, that same software will make more of the total energy capacity available to users..."...:
Every report I've seen from 500e users shows it charges to 4.1 volts per cell, regardless of age or mileage. There are fewer reports of the low-end cutoff but every one I've seen says 3.1 V/cell, also regardless of age/miles. Also, a couple users did precise usable-capacity tests & measured just under 2.3% loss per 10k miles, which would have shown as zero loss if software was reducing the buffers.