The one thing I’ve always said is that some idiot has made the fatal mistake of using complete range as a marketing tool. ICE they use the rate of consumption, to get to a range takes the effort of doing the maths and to get a real world comparison also requires doing more maths. Then they decided to tell potential customers exactly how far their new fangled EV can go on one charge. Just like predicted mpg guesstimates predicted range is always overestimated.
The real measure of how good a BEV is would be to use the miles per kilowatt hour measure. Like the mpg, it identifies the efficiency of the drive train and aerodynamics combining into a true measure of how much better, or worse, any car is in comparison to another must be the distance you can get for each unit of energy you pay for. Then variables like fuel tank volume (or battery size) is irrelevant and the average punter will still need to do the math to do the comparison.
Nobody believes that their new car will achieve the mpg that they are told in the sales blurb. Everybody seems to expect an EV to achieve exactly the range the artificial test says is possible. The real stupid bit is telling people exactly what they can get in a really simple manner. Nearly no car achieves the MPG claimed in exactly the same way as nearly no BEV achieves the range in the real world. A very select few, however, are sufficiently efficient that they can provide the estimates.
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Mark