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Except the 55 mile number was just straight made up, the two cars they had to test weren't even reduced by 25% capacity.


No. The first car was reduced by 80%.

"The company claimed it could run, even if driven briskly, for 200 miles, but after just a morning the battery power was down to 20% and we realised that it would not have enough juice for all the shots we needed."


I could be mistaken, but I think Tesla said that neither car was reduced by more than 25% (maybe it was below 25%). The roadster keeps a large amount of data store about it's usage so it'd be easy to determine who was telling the truth. Either way pushing the car into the garage was never necessary and was done on purpose, I'm not sure the intent.


the key is driven briskly = o(trashing it on a track)




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