Lovemyev
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No - Because the size of storage tank you are carrying around is massively different.I know you already know the answer to your own question!
but I'll put it into words.
An incorrect ICE MPG won't leave you potentially stranded embarrassingly waiting for a recovery truck unlike a lying EV WLTP in winter.
If the HV battery had the same capacity as a fuel tank in an ICE car, it would never be a problem.
Regardless of the winter consumption of the pack / tank.
Let’s say you have a ICE car that can give you 35 MPG in the summer, but only returns 25 MPG in the winter.
This is never a problem, unless you are running low on fuel.
Then you are blaming the CAR for consuming the fuel, too fast all of a sudden.
MPG figures never have, and never will be achievable figures in real world conditions.
This is old news, that ALL of us have been cheated by for many many years.
The fuel gauge on an ICE car is pretty accurate and can be trusted to report pretty close down before to the wanting a flat bed ride home.
The GOM on an EV is a little less trust worthy in this department though !.
Did anybody expect to receive the actual WLTP figures in their EV that is published ?.
Remembering it is conducted in a similar way to the old system of reporting consumption.
I have never seen any car that is able return the same economy figures in the winter as it can in the summer, that is pure fact.
We have two standards on reporting EV efficiency now, we have the WLTP range and the “Real World” range.
Who is this “Real World” governing body then ?.
It’s customers like us, that’s who !.
Who have proven once again that these figure that are put out can not be trusted.
We have travelled a full circle back to where we started.
Buying the car, then finding out what it can and can not do.
Come on you “Real World” people, let’s try and keep the flat bed folks less busy people !.