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Originally Posted by Adrian E
One thing I can't get my head around is that a pretty popular option on the Tesla is 21" wheels fitted with Michelin Super Sports tyres - they must suck a fair bit of range out of the batteries with the footprint and rolling resistance?!
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Tesla do quote a slightly lower range for the 21", but only marginally so: I think this is because, as a proportion of the total battery power and overall vehicle weight (a lot of which is batteries
), the wheel/tyre combo only makes a marginal difference.