I had to be back home by Tuesday for work meetings so we did as much as we could with as you said the weather and time we had. We actually, to Kyle's shock, got almost everything filmed we wanted. Short of doing offroad stuff, we did it all. It was a great time, I know that for them it's work...
I am not getting a cut of ad revenue, just discovery and experience from doing content like this. Plus Kyle is a friend and figured it would be fun (it was)
Elevation, temperature, HVAC, tire PSI, etc... so many variables which is why I stated that in my article. You could run this test all over again in 10 degree lower temp and get a different result. The question is how do we get closer to the EPA range because it's so off.
The point of the test was to see how far R2 could go from 100% to 0% at 70 mph (constant). The EPA does the testing in a lab, we did it in the real world where there are a trillion variables that play into it.
We have to be realistic of what people will drive in. We could turn the HVAC off and maybe get a few more miles out of it but no one is doing that in 98+ degree weather.