EU new labeling, which just became mandatory, requires companies to list specific test data to consumers but Apple has found numerous ambiguities in the test requirements.
But it’s not unfair, no more than saying an pick-up can carry more weight than a smaller, more efficient car. If you want the bigger carrying capacity you can still choose the pick-up (especially in an actual professional context where you might need the extra capacity) but you can’t say it’s more efficient.
I agree that on an objective, scientific and absolute level, you can compare them, but the usefulness for a customer of such a scale is zero. I want as much as a detailed scale on city-cars in order to discern the best among them, and the same for trucks. Expanding the scale too much looses the detail on the finer level.
But it’s not unfair, no more than saying an pick-up can carry more weight than a smaller, more efficient car. If you want the bigger carrying capacity you can still choose the pick-up (especially in an actual professional context where you might need the extra capacity) but you can’t say it’s more efficient.
I agree that on an objective, scientific and absolute level, you can compare them, but the usefulness for a customer of such a scale is zero. I want as much as a detailed scale on city-cars in order to discern the best among them, and the same for trucks. Expanding the scale too much looses the detail on the finer level.