It would be interesting too to see the rates of power consumption for the model S at cruising speed and the 'heat on low'.
From what I remember (doing some electric car design a long time ago) a car that is cruising at about 50 miles per hour uses < 10KW, and that was 1980's car, I'd expect the Tesla to do a little bit better than that.
> If it turns out Tesla denies telling him how he can condition the battery, that would be significant.
It would be, and on top of that they could prove in a re-run that that was what did in the trip (and starting out on a leg with less range than the leg was long, that bit did not make sense at all in the previous article).
From what I remember (doing some electric car design a long time ago) a car that is cruising at about 50 miles per hour uses < 10KW, and that was 1980's car, I'd expect the Tesla to do a little bit better than that.
> If it turns out Tesla denies telling him how he can condition the battery, that would be significant.
It would be, and on top of that they could prove in a re-run that that was what did in the trip (and starting out on a leg with less range than the leg was long, that bit did not make sense at all in the previous article).