“All told, Hyundai and Kia paid out some US$650 million, all over one measly mile per gallon, an error estimated at the time to have cost customers US$88 if they drove 24,000 kilometres a year.”
“Elon Musk cheated and he’s going to get away with it
The issue isn't that Tesla deliberately exaggerated its range estimations, but that its clientele really doesn't care”
nostr:npub18hx5krh4jlgg633dg2v3h6dy5vrgf8fy39y33pcphk9phntsd8dsvcqr8n Is it that they don’t care? Or is it that they’ve tightly linked their identies and the values they project to Tesla? Admitting Tesla fooled them makes them look like fools. Musk has seen enough of his customers idolize him to know what he can get away with (and he knows exactly how unlikely he is to face regulatory push-back).