buzznwood
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At a guess they would be sticking to the speed limits which in Norway are very low. While I think it is good that the mach-e managed to achieve a good result and a long range I am starting to see these range tests informative but also all rather useless .They must have been driving like turtles, my recent trip suggests they need to cut that range in half for highway driving.
If you live in an apartment and have limited charging options knowing maximum range is useful as you can see what works for you and how often you would need to make a trip to a charge station. For most the real time that the maximum range comes into play is when you decied to go on a road trip and that is where you also need to take charging into account not just the range, if a manufacture makes a gas guzzler ICE they can offset it by adding a larger fuel tank so while using a large battery pack helps do the same unlike the ICE that extra fill up time is significant especially on the mach-e with the abysmal DCFC charge curve above 80%.
Ford really needs to work on either improving over all efficiency (probably only a small amount that can be done) or the DCFC charging curve (needs serious improvement IMO). As based on the the test results some of the competition vehicles are not that far behind on range despite using a much smaller battery that can be charged up to maximum range and have the driver back on the road much faster. As more people transition over to BEVS this is an area where Ford could easily start to lag behind the competition.
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