{"id":120889,"date":"2021-03-25T21:26:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T04:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/tesla-claims-epa-range-can-be-achieved-on-its-electric-cars"},"modified":"2021-03-25T21:26:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T04:26:20","slug":"tesla-claims-epa-range-can-be-achieved-on-its-electric-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/tesla-claims-epa-range-can-be-achieved-on-its-electric-cars","title":{"rendered":"Tesla claims EPA range can be achieved on its electric cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tesla-claims-epa-range-can-be-achieved-on-its-electric-cars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In response to an independent range test, Tesla has reportedly claimed that the EPA range on its vehicles can be achieved by draining the battery pack beyond the zero-mile displayed range.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, we reported on <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2021\/02\/10\/tesla-range-estimates-put-into-question-independent-tests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Edmunds conducting independent range tests on a bunch of electric vehicles<\/a> to compare them to their EPA estimates.<\/p>\n<p>The results showed that Tesla is using the most optimistic versions of its EPA estimated range in its advertising compared to other automakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to an independent range test, Tesla has reportedly claimed that the EPA range on its vehicles can be achieved by draining the battery pack beyond the zero-mile displayed range. Last month, we reported on Edmunds conducting independent range tests on a bunch of electric vehicles to compare them to their EPA estimates. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}