stopcrazypp
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Thanks for the thorough translation. It represents a completely different picture than the one previously presented. And it matches what I had been thinking. Tesla previously used a rating that that EU regulations had them use and now added a lower rating for clarity in response to complaints (while keeping the motor power numbers on the same page). This is different from a case where they are making a correction to an incorrect number. It goes into the importance of consumer perception vs legal requirements.I'm sorry but I believe this thread deserves an as-good-as-possible translation of the entire statement. Please keep in mind the fact that Pedersen, who is Norwegian, probably said this in Norwegian and was then quoted in Danish in a Danish paper (translated by the journalist) and keep in mind that I'm a Swede living in Norway for 10 years
This, according to me, is what the communications manager said:
"The rules have been in a gray area. And it's not hard for me to understand that to people we may seem to have been a bit too ingenious [in our way of presenting the horse power numbers]. But now we have corrected the numbers and the correction is here to stay. Some may suggest that earlier we elected to represent ourselves in the best possible light. But now we represent ourselves in the poorest of light, power wise, without someone [some authority] having asked us to do that".
And then he says:
"Our customers have been in doubt when it comes to the number of horse powers the Model S delivers at the wheels. In order to create clarity we have changed the way we communicate the number of horse powers on our website. We report, as always, the maximum output of the motors, which is in accordance with EU regulations, but to make things absolutely clear we have also added "battery limited hp". This is not a legal requirement and the resulting number of horsepowers is affected by a number of variables (state of charge, temperature etc.). But we have chosen to publish this number in order to meet the wishes of our customers."
It'll be interesting to see how the consumer complaint case goes (although I'm not sure how applicable it is to the rest of EU, given from what has posted so far the group handling it is inclined to side more with the consumer in most cases). The significance of the incorrect translation in Denmark is going to be interesting too (AFAIK, the Norway translation was correct). That should answer the question of if Tesla is even required to append "motor power" when mentioning that rating.
