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Originally Posted by **********
"the smog shop calculated the Tesla?s emissions by driving a predetermined circuit, letting it sit over night, measuring the next day, repeating the circuit, measuring the next day, so on for a few days.
This would be equivalent to leaving a gasoline car idle all night long, then averaging the total fuel consumption over the circuit only."
will be cool to see how this pans out.
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Hey Mark it will be cool to see how it pans out.
As to the legitimacy of the test.
I know you own a Tesla, would you say that the test replicates how you use your car?
Drive from A-B round trip, park over night etc.
As a gas powered car uses no gas when parked for the night and a Tesla continues to consume power to me the test would seem to reflect how the car is used and is a true test of its power consumption and thus its emissions.
That is unless people are turning their Model S off and then disconnecting the battery packs over night.