Hmm. This is annoying.
Yes, I made a note on the 13th March about the reported specs, and sent them to a neighbour. I have the dated note at least.
At the time, the press was reporting "under 13k and a range of 250 miles". However, I didn't make a note of the specific websites that were reporting that, because they all were, as were some newspapers. Obviously, as it was so ridiculously impossible, I double checked, and that's what the press were saying everywhere.
If you NOW google, all those old articles have either disappeared, or been edited to have the new figures in, which are much less impressive of course.
The Wayback machine doesn't help, as I foolishly didn't record a particular address.
So either my contemporaneous notes were wrong and I imagined it, or the whole thing was a misunderstanding/publicity stunt at the time.
Having spent ten minutes trying to find an archived article with the original figures I got bored, so you'll either have to take my word for it or be a more patient internet searcher than I am.
Last edited by: Crankcase on Thu 1 Aug 19 at 09:14
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