Mike K
Member
The burden of proof is on Tesla for making the original statement that their pack is 85kWh. They never did, so wk057 is fact checking Tesla Tesla's claims and so far they are not holding up. You may also have missed the other thread (parts on the bench) were a substantial part of wk057s research has been independently duplicated and validated (notably the cell voltages at different charge states). So if you want to be pedantic about it all, the right statement to make is that there is currently no evidence that the packs sold as 85kWh actually have said capacity.
No, the accepted conclusion is that the battery pack is 85kwh. wk057 challenged this assertion and thus the burden of proof lies on him, not Tesla. I'm not saying anyone is right or wrong just that he is the one that needs to prove his claim. If you run around telling everyone I'm only worth a couple McDonalds cheeseburgers and whatever change is on the side of my seat it's on you to back that claim up. Otherwise people could just nitpick every little detail and force an explanation/ proof from anyone about anything.
Now people can either accept his data or not. That's up to them. Personally I think there are entirely too many gray areas for this to be as black and white as some want to make it. I also don't see what they had to gain from intentionally misleading which leads me to give them the benefit of the doubt.