If you're trying to suggest that you can tell if a vehicle has the autopilot sensors based on the VIN then you're wrong. The serial number in the VIN is not a production sequence number. My September 2014 car missed the autopilot sensors and had VIN 56107. When I was dropping it off at the service center I saw a loaner with VIN 55xxx that had autopilot sensors. Outside of some database that Tesla has that provides this information the only way to know is to look at a specific car.
Believe it or not there is no clause allowing Tesla to change the specifications or configuration of a vehicle in the
MVPA (the missing page 1 is just the vehicle configuration, my contact info and date when I placed the order). Now that's my MVPA and you'll note it has a revision number at the bottom, so I can't speak for what wk057's MVPA says with absolute certainty but I am fairly certain he had the same MVPA based on when he ordered and I did. Frankly, I was pretty shocked when I found this looking at my own MVPA.
That hasn't been true since 2008. The EPA test changed starting with the 2008 model year to use a 5-cycle drive test instead of a 2-cycle drive test. The existing cycles in the 2-cycle drive tests were a city test and a highway test (slow compared to current speed limits). The 5-cycle drive test includes those cycles and 3 new ones. A cold test (20°F, using the heater), a hot test (95°F, using the air conditioning) and a high speed test (reaching 80mph). The city, highway and highspeed cycles are done 68°F-86°F.
You seem to be under the impression that these tests take place on actual roads, they do not. They are done in laboratory conditions on a dynamo. Ambient conditions are controlled per the test specifications.
I believe these temperatures are good enough to include the impacts of temperatures on range. So in ideal weather conditions you should do better than the rated range.
