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Originally Posted by robg

Hard to tell yet how well VWs penance network is going to compete. If it weren’t for that I’d get an etron all day over this if I were in the market.

Not well, it seems.

"Correcting Audi: Tesla Model 3 Charges Over 2 Times Faster Than Audi e-tron"

https://cleantechnica.com/2019/05/17...n-audi-e-tron/

Matthew Mostafaei, Audi’s manager for e-tron, presented data taken from Twitter during the New York Auto Show without naming the source. (That’s plagiarism.) The data was misrepresented by plotting it on a different axis. (That’s a falsification.) He then used the data to show the e-tron’s charging superiority over the Model 3, when it actually proves the opposite. (That’s deception.) You may call this good marketing. I call it a brazen lie. At best, it is a highly misleading accident.

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Here is what you should take away from this article: do not trust anything published by the Volkswagen Group. After all the coverups from the past few years, it comes as no surprise that Audi keeps deceiving the public with falsified data and twisted arguments. Some companies never learn. I just hope customers finally will.