It’s still behind a paywall, but I think we’ve all seen the sentiment before. No, EV’s don’t achieve the published, and mandated, WLTP results. But neither do petrols or diesels. Non-story, I’d imagine.

Yes, done to death.

Everyone knows that manufacturers quoted EV range or mpg is not achievable in the real world.

Nothing new - the manufacturers are forced to test to the flawed RDE/WLTP test methods and cannot publish real world figures - it was true for petrol/diesel cars and is equally true for EVs.

Wrap it up as much as you like a third of the range gone in the advertising ought to be illegal!

The advertising shows the official fugures which are the only ones that they can show so you can't ban the advert as they are factual. You need to change the tests, not the adverts. People need to educate themselves a bit better when buying cars and not rely on adverts alone.

I don't have an electric car yet but hope to have one in 2-3 years time.

As with MPG figures for petrol and diesel cars, I take the battery range figures as being the maximum range you could hope to get in ideal conditions.

I would take the Which figure and start looking for a charger having knocked 30 miles of that so for the Tesla Y quoted above 200 miles seems realistic for the top of the range EV. Be interesting to see if anyone who drives one could give a figure

Here are some of the figures

Tesla Model 3 (19,701)
Advertised range: 374
Tested range: 260 miles

3 Kia Niro (11,197)
Advertised range: 285 miles
Estimated range: 165-350 miles*

4 Volkswagen ID.3 (9,832)
Advertised range: 265
Tested range: 209

5 Nissan Leaf (9,178)
Advertised range: 239
Tested range: 187

The use of "advertised" is misleading - you should use the terms "official tested" and unofficial tested" - the problem is the official test.