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特斯拉、电动野马和奥迪燃油车搞了场公路拉力赛,结果有点出入意料

Tesla, the Electric Mustang, and the Audi fuel car had a road rally. The results were a bit unexpected

新浪美股 ·  Sep 14, 2021 10:56

American tech podcaster Marques Brownlee (Marques Brownlee) recently conducted an experiment to find out which method is better for road trips: traditional fuel cars or electric cars.

Brownley and his team prepared three cars for a two-day road trip in New York State, including a gasoline-powered Audi Q5, oneTeslaModel S Plaid, and a Ford Mustang Mach-E electric SUV. They all start from the same location and are full of fuel tanks or batteries to compare the driving time of each car.

The results of this 1,000-mile (about 1,609 km) race are unquestionable. Electric cars take longer to charge during long trips, but they also highlight one of Tesla's main advantages over other electric cars.

Unsurprisingly, the Audi Q5 performed the best, taking 18 hours and 39 minutes. It runs far more miles when full of fuel than the two electric cars when fully charged, and it only takes a few minutes to fill up.

In contrast, Tesla only spent about an hour and a half more on the road than the Odido, while the Mach-E spent six and a half hours more.

Why is there such a big gap between Tesla and Ford Mach-E?

Tesla's momentum in terms of charging infrastructure is well documented. The company spent years building a huge proprietary charging network, including more than 1,100 supercharging stations and thousands of slow charging plugs in the US.

But what freaks out Mach-E drivers is not the number of public charging stations, but their quality. It's not difficult for them to find a plug; the hard part is finding one that works.

According to Brownley, on the first day, Ford's navigation system twice navigated the Mach-E to the place where the charging plug was broken or maintained offline, which meant that the fleet had to drive the car to the side of the road and spent a few more hours on the road. Ford encourages car owners to travel around its FordPass charging network, which is a hodgepodge of chargers from other companies and can be accessed and paid for through the Ford app.

Although the goal of the FordPass app and network is to make the search for a charger and charging more seamless, relying on an external provider to charge the most important charging for electric vehicles is clearly a drawback. Brownley suspected there was a slight delay in time between the charger going offline and the information being delivered to Ford's navigation system and mobile apps.

Brownley said that since Tesla owns, operates, and maintains its own charging stations, it can provide car owners with better and more timely charging information.

On the second day of the game, the Mach-E team gave up FordPass and instead used other apps to find charging stations on the Electrify America network. Sure enough, things went smoothly. Mach-E finished the second round of the game, now closely following Tesla.

Brownley also found that the Mach-E has a key advantage over the Tesla Model S Plaid: Ford is far more accurate in estimating remaining mileage. In the race, the Mach-E has always given a relatively conservative range, and the Model S Plaid's battery usually runs out faster than promised. This is a problem Tesla owners have been reflecting for years.

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