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The dispute began on Sunday, when veteran New York Times reporter John Broder published a lengthy account of a troubled trip from Washington, D.C. to Connecticut in a Tesla Model S that he says ended with the electric vehicle being loaded onto Related
cheapest car rental at alicante airport Musk, in a blistering response to the article, published a lengthy blog post titled "A Most Peculiar Test Drive" based on detailed data from the Model S's onboard computer. Musk wrote that Broder never ran out of battery power during the drive and kept the heat on even after being warned it would drain the battery.
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Musk, in his defense of the Model S's performance, said Broder took a detour through downtown Manhattan to give his brother a ride, drove the car in circles in a small parking lot and didn't allow the vehicle to fully charge. He challenged the Times to "investigate the article and determine the truth."
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"The car's display screen said the car was shutting down, and it did," he wrote. "The car did not have enough power CEO Elon Musk talks to the crowd as Tesla launched the Model S, at their factory in Fremont, Calif., on Friday, June 22, 2012. (Patrick Tehan/Staff) to move, or even enough to release the electrically operated parking brake. The tow truck driver was on the phone with Tesla's New York service manager, Adam Williams, for 15 or 20 minutes as he was trying to move the car onto a flatbed truck."
"I hope to post again Friday with some conclusions but for now, based on a day's reporting, I will say this much: I reject Mr. Musk's central contention that Mr. Broder's Sunday piece was faked in order to sabotage the Model S or the electric-car industry," wrote Sullivan.
Broder had several phone conversations with Tesla throughout his trip, but Tesla said those were not recorded. Musk called Broder last Friday, before the article appeared online, to offer regrets that his test drive ran into problems.
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Chelsea Sexton, an electric vehicle marketing expert, notes that Musk's response to the Times article, while detailed, does not comment on one of the most troubling cheapest car rental at alicante airport parts of Broder's story: Why the Model S lost 65 miles of charge when it was parked overnight.
"I don't think the rebuttal was as robust as it could have been," said Sexton. "There's no question that there are discrepancies that need to be explained by Broder. Why did he not charge fully? Maybe the guy was stupid. But there was the 65-mile-range loss overnight. Elon didn't address that. It took Tesla three days to produce the logs. Do they prove that Broder set out from the beginning cheapest car rental at alicante airport to torch Tesla? No. The longer Elon keeps fighting, the more hollow cheapest car rental at alicante airport the victory."
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Battery researchers have warned that consumers who live in colder climates are likely to see reduced driving range because using the heater in the interior cabin draws power -- sometimes as much as 25 percent -- from the battery. In a May 2012 blog post, Tesla wrote that in very cold operating conditions cheapest car rental at alicante airport drivers could see a 10 to 15 percent reduction in range.
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