Edmunds Defends Tesla Range Tests - Interview w/ Editor-in-Chief Alistair Weaver (03.28.21)
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Rob Maurer
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🗓️ 28 March 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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➤ Edmunds Editor-in-Chief Alistair Weaver joins Rob Maurer to discuss Edmunds’ electric vehicle range tests, Tesla’s performance, test conditions, range buffers, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, Rob Maurer here and today we are joined by Edmunds Editor-in-Chief, |
| 0:04.6 | Alistair Weaver, who has gracefully agreed to join us and have a conversation about some |
| 0:08.8 | of the questions that we've had on some of the Edmunds range testing. |
| 0:12.1 | Obviously you guys have done a little bit of testing a few months back on a number of |
| 0:15.8 | different electric vehicles. |
| 0:17.5 | Tesla gave you a call about that a little bit unhappy with some of the results in terms |
| 0:21.0 | of not accounting for maybe some of the range that was available after the indicated range |
| 0:25.2 | hit zero miles. |
| 0:26.6 | So you guys did a little bit of retesting on that this week and published your findings |
| 0:29.9 | on that. |
| 0:30.9 | So I think we can kind of start there. |
| 0:32.4 | First off, thanks for joining us. |
| 0:33.6 | Really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you and have this conversation. |
| 0:37.0 | But yeah, maybe just walk us through, you know, Tesla giving you guys the call and then |
| 0:40.8 | some of that retesting that you guys have done. |
| 0:42.9 | Sure. |
| 0:43.9 | Firstly, Rob, thanks for having me on. |
| 0:45.6 | It's always good to, I know you've been covering some of what we've been doing pretty intensely, |
| 0:49.7 | so it's always nice to have the opportunity to come on and talk about it. |
| 0:53.6 | You're right. |
| 0:54.6 | I mean, Edmunds, you know, we have a long history of testing, testing EVs. |
| 0:59.4 | I mean, I've been in my current realm for three years, but I've been associated with |
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