It's not just cake that's a lie, its how far you can drive your Tesla too. Rueters is reporting that Musk was directly involved in the rigging of driving range estimates on Tesla vehicles a decade ago. If a car had more than 50% of its battery left the algorithm would throw up a more "rosy" estimate of the actual driving range remaining. At 50% and below an accurate range would be shown, then at 0% a 24km buffer was left. They're unsure if Tesla is still using the same rosy algo in today's models, however they were recently fined by South Korean regulators, noting that their cars were delivering as little as half their advertised range in cold weather. Yikes.
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