Mockingbird
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The video is completely biased.This video is pretty interesting. It's a 1000 mile "race" between an Audi Q5, a Model S Plaid, and a Mach-E... One of the interesting things they pointed out, was that it was not actually the chargers per-se that screwed over the Mach-E... It was the the route guidance in the Mach-E that sucks. He was saying, that because of the way the superchargers are vertically integrated, the Tesla will tell you availability, and can plan accordingly if the SC is full/busted/etc... The Mach-E on the other hand, does not have/present this information. In this race, the Mach-E kept directing them to a charger that was offline. They were pissed at one of the stops, becuase when they called the support number, support said they saw the charger was offline on their end... But this information was not relayed to the Mach-E. Because there were no chargers close by, they had to L2 charge for a bit, and then go off course to get to a working charger. They were so far off course, they had to completely skip the waypoint in the race. They even found some of the chargers in the Mach-E navigation were misclassified. Some of them were marked as DC Fastcharging in the navigation, but when they arrived, it was actually a 7.2kw L2 charger. Their conclusion was to not trust the navigation in the car, and use the EA App to find chargers. A bit extreme, but was an interesting take.
Here is the in depth video from the first day, that shows more details of what went wrong for the Mach-E team.
The guy admitted that he knew that those chargers were going down for maintenance for one day, yet he intentionally drove to those down chargers on that specific day to cause drama.