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In our highway fuel-economy testing, a Tesla Model S Long Range Plus went 320 miles at an average speed of 75 mph. This is the first EV that s broken the 300-mile barrier in our range testing.
At 103.9 kWh, the Long Range Plus model has slightly more battery capacity than its predecessors, such as the Model S 100D, which went 270 miles in the same test. In addition to the increased energy, Tesla unlocked the extra range with a series of efficiency-minded modifications to the rest of the car.
In the five years since we started conducting a 200-mile highway fuel-economy test, we ve had the pleasure and inconvenience of running the test on a wide array of EVs. The test involves an out-and-back loop of a 100-mile stretch of interstate taken at a cruise-controlled 75 mph. Often, a highway fuel economy test of an EV involves a shortened loop and a lot of nail-biting on the part of whichever test driver has been assigned to the task. But when we recently got our h