#He cant keep getting away with it driver#

Reuters cited Recurrent, a Seattle-based EV analytics company, as yet another source confirming the size of the disparities.

#He cant keep getting away with it driver#

Indeed, one of the most striking similarities between Musk’s Diversions and Volkswagen’s Dieselgate is that it seems everybody knew - or, at least, suspected - that Tesla was fudging its numbers.Įlon Musk and his mother Maye Musk arrive for the 2022 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2022, in New York Photo by Angela Weiss / Gettyįor years, reputable sources like Car and Driver and Edmunds have been writing that electric vehicles’ range predictions were inflated, and that Tesla’s were the most - or amongst the most - inflated. The lack of clamour and commotion amongst Tesla owners certainly doesn’t seem to be for a lack of knowledge. It’s as if - and, yes, I promised you a connection - Trump actually tried to foment an insurrection, and his loyal followers just didn’t give a rat’s you-know-what. And, even when EV sites have legitimately reported Reuters’ revelations, their readers seem – judging by the lack of outraged comments - largely non-plussed.

Or, taking a page right out of the Breitbart playbook, covered it as a “brief” - so they could claim they had “reported” on it - while never actually posting the news piece on their homepage, lest it rankle their audience. Many Tesla-specific websites have simply ignored it. Otherwise, Tesla owners have essentially remained silent in their criticism of their Lord and saviour. Oh, sure, a class-action suit over the matter has been launched in California (though, if history is, again, any judge, Musk will skate on this one, too). Certainly, there’s been nothing like the hullabaloo that followed Hyundai’s revelations, or the outcry that greeted VW’s Dieselgate. Neither Reuters nor the whistleblower may have mentioned it, but I’m pretty sure they were laughing while doing so.Ī sign in front of a Tesla office on Apin Fremont, California Photo by Justin Sullivan / GettyĪnd yet, the Teslarati’s response has been strangely muted. One supervisor reportedly even bought a metallophone - that’s some sort of a xylophone with metal keys - used to celebrate employees who managed to cajole an owner into cancelling their appointment to have their car checked for what was, in the end, a very real complaint. The most insulting aspect to Reuters’ story, however, is that according to its source, the office resembled a telemarketing boiler room. Perhaps more disturbing, however, is that according to, again, Reuters, Tesla set up a “Diversion Team” to “steer customers away from bringing their cars into service whenever possible.” Specifically, the Diversion Team targeted owners who had range complaints, with the team’s sole goal being to discourage people from bringing in their cars to be tested for battery faults because - like the impetus for that Hyundai investigation - their actual mileage didn’t match that which was promised. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 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.

Eventually, the companies paid a then-incredible US$350 million in penalties, US$255 million in consumer class-action claims, and also had to give up 4.75 million of their much-sought-after carbon credits, which, at the time, the EPA estimated to be worth US$200 million. Truly, you would have thought babies had been tortured. Customers complained, the EPA investigated, and the media was unrelenting in its disparagement. Nonetheless, the protestations were immediate and deafening. For those who can only think in metric, the difference was a measly 0.35 L/100 kilometres. They claimed a fleet average of 27 miles for every U.S. In November of that year, Hyundai and Kia were found to have exaggerated their corporate fleet fuel economy by about one U.S. government and Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Motors Corporation, at the Justice Department headquarters, Novemin Washington, D.C Photo by Drew Angerer / Gettyįirst, let’s go back to 2012.

Attorney General Eric Holder and Sam Hirsch, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division, speak at a press conference to announce a settlement between the U.S. What’s that got to do with cars, you ask? Everything, actually.įrom left, Cynthia Giles, Assistant Administrator for EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy U.S.