World's Largest EV Range Test: Shocking Results from 32 EV's Compared

Björn has the best tests by far, but this 1 was nice as well

Vehicle Efficiency is not strongly related to energy density or overall weight (because energy recovery cancels out weight), it is mainly related to electronics efficiency, motor efficiency and aerodynamics.

Very happy with my AWD EV6,it just about does what is claimed in Summer, also the GOM(guessometer) is very accurate.

From a technician's perspective, what matters is if parts and services are available. The more popular the car, the more there are in the breaking yard. So, that means the better the chance of an expeditious repair. A broken car waiting on critical spares is a liability. Example: A friend's newer car was returned after being stolen. It's a very popular make and model. His insurance company said that it would be a 7 month wait to make the repairs and acquire the damaged parts; a broken side window, a rim, a tire, and the ignition locking device. We located a car exactly like his in a junk yard and within a few hours the car was repaired. I spent more time vacuuming up the broken glass than replacing and testing the parts.

Very good information. It is very convenient that you serve this kind thing up. It makes it easy to stay informed. Thank you Sam.

As far as value goes the Polestar2 is the clear winner in this test. Surprised you gave it so little coverage. We'd all love a model S Long range with a 100kwh battery but I expect very few of us could ever afford one, at £96k here in the UK that is just a pipe dream. The Polestar 2 on the other hand at half the price is doable and much better value than the similar priced Model Y standard range which Ithought would do better. Nissan Arriya was a bit of a surpise but still more expensive than the Polestar. That said MG4 is pretty impressive as far as bang for your buck.

People are buying G9, but they're starting deliveries 4'th quarter of 2023.

Hi Sam, I know you're not a big fan of the Nissan Ariya, but for 2 months now we own the Nissan Ariya (fwd) 87kwh and I can only confirm this test; I have to admit, we live in a very densely populated country in europe and we haven't done any road trip with it yet, but we constantly have an average between 14 à 16 kwh/100km. g.

Thank you for drawing our attention to this useful test and comparison.

One of the reasons for the varying results is that this test starts in Oslo at sea level. It then goes up a long valley that is pretty steep in the end and reach Dovre/Hjerkinn at 1000 meters (3,300 ft) above sea level at 365 km. Then it goes down to Ringebu (200 meters above sea) at 480 km, and then goes rounds up to hjerkinn, etc, to the car stops. A 800 meters hight difference is equivalent to approx 40 km summer-range, so the cars that makes it up the mountain will probably be able to drive a lot of the way down, even with a nearly empty battery, while those who almost (but not quite, as Douglas Adams would have said...) reach the top 'looses' up to 40 km of range.

Real world range could be anything. How long did they drive at different speeds? How often did they stop? If the car went faster than EPA tests, then aerodynamic cars would have an advantage. If they stopped a lot then cars with good regenerative braking would have an advantage.

Looks like they tested the new RWD polestar 2. Over 600kms, with improved efficiency. Nice job 👍

I would like to see the same data divided by the sale price to understand range/dollar of cost for the car.

Thanks for posting

One must consider that the test route was up and down a mountain. And a somewhat long distance before going down from the mountain again. The downhill driving would generate a lot of extra miles. Atto3 and the others that actually stopped on the way up the mountain pr right after that and did not get the downhill driving therefore got so much lower range. They stopped after or in the part with most climbing. There are speed chargers at the beginning of the climb, Dombås a little ober 300 km from Oslo, a nice place to have a break. So in reality you would take half an hour break there and then be able to drive up the mountain and down again with most cars.

Last week, Mercedes CEO was on TV about EVs He said he asked his engineers to increase the range upto 1000km, and they came with an EQxxx with a range of 1200. I wonder when they’ll be able to produce those in large numbers.

I have a solterra and love it. While far from perfect, it works great in our family since we also have a regular gas powered forester. Almost got an ev6 but, at least in the states, dealers are discounting the crap out of the solterra but still marking up the Kia. When couple with the 7500 rebate for leasing, the difference is about 150-200 USD/month. We usually buy our cars but with how quickly ev technology is advancing, leasing for 3 years made sense for us this time around.

10:50 air resistance times front area makes the difference. A little bit bigger front area of the Y times cw=0.23 is smaller than Atto 3 front area tomes cw=0.29. My favorite is the Tesla Y RWD despite all the RWD problems. This because my daughters left home and weather become warmer. This means far less chance that I have to leave the deep garage with a curved exit snow covered. It happened several times, that this took me over 5 minutes with a front wheel drive car.

Sam the Atto 3 WLTP which is used everywhere but China & the US/Canada for range ratings is 420km. The EV Database real-world range of the Atto 3 is 320km so I'll take the 320km and I know owners who get more than 320km in 'mild-weather' as ev-database calls it. Bjorn did amazing results on his range test in Thailand with the Atto 3. As for it vs the Model Y, I'll take the Atto 3 far more character to it. The Model Y looks exactly like all the other Tesla vehicles, excluding CT of course, they are just stretched or squished. But each to their own.

For a true comparison we really needs to have the overall journey efficiency figures from the same test, as the i7 for example just gets it's range from a huge heavy battery not good efficiency.