They send a pair of journalists on a none-stop trip from SF to LA on a 370 miles car, at the same time as they are hosting an autonomous investor day, with camera crew car, on NoA!Motor Trend has an article up about the Model S refresh.
EXCLUSIVE: 2019 Tesla Model S Review: From SF to LA on One Charge? - MotorTrend
We test it: Updated Model S can go from Bay Area to L.A. on a single charge ... As we pull into the [Hawthorne] Supercharger stall, our elapsed time from the Bay Area stood at 6 hours, 11 minutes, 359 miles. With 83 kWh used, we had 11 percent of the battery remaining—which equates to 41 more miles at the rate I was going. Right at 400 miles if you add it up
Tesla just set the bar so high that other EV manufacturers are curled up in a shower crying.
Clearly Tesla hoped they would arrive with zero intervention, which would draw perfect conclusion to the day. So much more powerful than Tesla employees doing a coast to coast trip.
But, said journalists screwed it up by not keeping hands on the wheel....
Let me think whether they did it on purpose.
Tesla should have “unbolted the wheel and put a cap there.”