Tesla vs Media AGAIN as Model S craps out on journo - on the highway

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The Register:

Californian electric car maker Tesla Motors - well known for tangling repeatedly with the BBC (and the Register) over coverage of battery vehicles which it did not deem positive enough - is now in a row with the New York Times after one of the paper's journalists wrote a stinging review of its new Model S.

The NYT article chronicles an attempt by scribe John M Broder to drive a new Model S from Washington to Boston with stops to make rapid recharges at two new ultrafast charging stations set up by Tesla on the route between the two cities, which should have made the journey nearly as quick and simple as it would be in a fossil-fuelled vehicle.

 

Broder wryly quoted US energy secretary Steven Chu, who loaned Tesla $465m of federal cash to develop the Model S, saying:

 

"Driving by a gasoline station and smiling is something everyone should experience.”

 

"I drove a state-of-the-art electric vehicle past a lot of gas stations. I wasn’t smiling," noted Broder.

 

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I think we wasted another 1/2 billion here.