danrjones said:
I don't have an issue with some reserve (few miles) in EVs below zero percent, but in regards to REAL WORLD range testing like Edmunds did, you cannot expect it to count toward range. In the real world, most people will never see that extra range. So if a company like Tesla wants to hide 20 or 30 miles below zero percent, good on them, but it is going to hurt their "Real World" range. And effectively it means I would be paying for range I'm never going to see or use. EPA range, to dead, is far less interesting to me because I'm never going to do that. YMMV.
As an example, I have an excel sheet I have for trading in the Leaf later this year, and one of the columns for the vehicles is 10% to 80% range in miles. To me, that is a "Real World" range I'm comfortable using.
Cherry pick your views anyway you want to. Its called comfort level and we all have it, but I paid for it and I will use it. Have done so many times...Not a few times, mind you; THOUSANDS OF TIMES. It was a near daily occurrence in both my 24 kwh LEAFs. I know people who charge to full needlessly because they start to fret when the GOM drops below 100...even if they are 10 miles from home and this is not an April 1st statement.
Your "real world" statement is a fallacy. When people realize that a reserve exists, they will start using it. That is human nature. We don't have 120,000 people a year running out of gas because of broken gas gauges. We don't have EVers playing with their phone on the side of the road due to malfunctioning range warnings.
So yeah, there are people of all kinds but the majority? Stand with me. I do believe in leaving a mile in the tank no matter what..."most" of the time