Can You Actually Trust That 673 km Number?
Mostly, but there’s a catch worth knowing. The 673km figure comes from the EPA’s Multi-Cycle Test, run purely under lab conditions and the highway-only version of that same test already drops to 604 km. Apply the EPA’s usual real-world correction factor, the one that accounts for air conditioning, traffic and how people actually drive, and the number settles closer to 471 km, which lines up almost exactly with Tesla’s own claimed 482 km. So nothing here is inflated, it’s just a lab number being mistaken for a real-world one, the same gap most Indian buyers already know well from ARAI mileage figures rarely matching what they get on the road.