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Regarding the dashboard pic - that's a trip computer display (see the "A:" and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAdzIuAB3-g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAdzI
by klaff 1mo ago
Regarding the dashboard pic - that's a trip computer display (see the "A:" and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAdzIuAB3-g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAdzIuAB3-g) which can display a large range of values depending on the history since the trip was last reset. That fact is recognized in the article you posted but buried in the middle. Using the power estimates in the article won't get you to the inefficiency shown in the trip computer either and aerodynamic changes only make sense if the vehicle is making mostly highway trips, which maybe? My EV, less efficient than the i-Pace (because it's big tall van), in it's first 10k miles averaged 2.5 mi/kWh or 0.4 kWh/mile at an average speed of 36 mph. That works out to around 14.4 kW average load. Adding 3 kW to that for compute (upper end of estimate of one source in the article you linked) pushes that number to 17.4 kW, which would change my efficiency number to 2.1 miles/kWh - still double the i-Pace trip computer. So I don't trust that number as a foundation for any conclusions.
And if the cybercab is cheaper because it doesn't include the sensors needed to actually see the world around it, that's not great either.