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elon musk accused the author of a significant detour in manhattan and not charging to max in his tweets. he provides zero proof the first thing happened and the

elon musk accused the author of a significant detour in manhattan and not charging to max in his tweets. he provides zero proof the first thing happened and the article is very clear that the test driver/reviewer did not, in fact, charge to max when elon musk claims he didn't. i'm also appalled elon musk would use charge remaining charts that show the battery dropping into the low single digits to prove the car never ran out of battery when the tesla runs on lithium ion battery technology. lithium ion batteries are ruined by complete discharges. if the tesla doesn't shut down above some safe threshold it's a poor piece of engineering. elon musk is definitely aware of this fact and is cherry picking facts and misleading his audience to gain sympathy for his argument. elon musk also cherry picks a quote from a response to his tweets and attributes it to the original piece to further his argument regardless of the new york time's behavior, elon musk is not acting in any more honest a manner and is harming his companies reputation

nicpottier 14y ago
Uhm.. I'm pretty sure the Teslas don't actually let you completely deplete the packs, but rather take you to the safest discharge they can handle before shutting down. Of course they aren't going to let a stubborn driver destroy $10,000 of batteries.
stcredzero 14y ago
> if the tesla doesn't shut down above some safe threshold it's a poor piece of engineering. Such batteries have their charge scale as displayed to the user deliberately shifted, so that even a small negative capacity actually indicates that safety threshold. Do you actually know anything about making charge controllers? Your statements seem to be of the type crafted to deceive uninformed readers. > elon musk also cherry picks a quote from a response to his tweets and attributes it to the original piece to further his argument [Citation Needed] > regardless of the new york time's behavior, elon musk is not acting in any more honest a manner and is harming his companies reputation There's no concrete proof you've offered in this comment at all, only a willful misreading of Tesla's response.
Terretta 14y ago
> elon musk accused the author of a significant detour in manhattan ... he provides zero proof the first thing happened The journalist acknowledges that detour, but claims it wasn't significant. He said the detour shouldn't have mattered because he only added two miles by going into Manhattan "stop and go traffic" via Lincoln tunnel instead of using the George Washington Bridge to follow I-95 bypassing Manhattan. Assuming this journalist is familiar with NYC, that's the most damning comment he's made. His claim might play for anyone not familiar with the area, but if you're from around here, his claim that it only added two miles is hysterical. As a local, I can tell you that's a difference of typically an hour and a couple gallons of gas, being generous. I've had that detour to drop a friend off in Chelsea add two hours before. Only two miles may be true, but baldly mischaracterizes the energy cost.

nicpottier 14y ago

Uhm.. I'm pretty sure the Teslas don't actually let you completely deplete the packs, but rather take you to the safest discharge they can handle before shutting down. Of course they aren't going to let a stubborn driver destroy $10,000 of batteries.

stcredzero 14y ago

> if the tesla doesn't shut down above some safe threshold it's a poor piece of engineering. Such batteries have their charge scale as displayed to the user deliberately shifted, so that even a small negative capacity actually indicates that safety threshold. Do you actually know anything about making charge controllers? Your statements seem to be of the type crafted to deceive uninformed readers. > elon musk also cherry picks a quote from a response to his tweets and attributes it to the original piece to further his argument [Citation Needed] > regardless of the new york time's behavior, elon musk is not acting in any more honest a manner and is harming his companies reputation There's no concrete proof you've offered in this comment at all, only a willful misreading of Tesla's response.

Terretta 14y ago

> elon musk accused the author of a significant detour in manhattan ... he provides zero proof the first thing happened The journalist acknowledges that detour, but claims it wasn't significant. He said the detour shouldn't have mattered because he only added two miles by going into Manhattan "stop and go traffic" via Lincoln tunnel instead of using the George Washington Bridge to follow I-95 bypassing Manhattan. Assuming this journalist is familiar with NYC, that's the most damning comment he's made. His claim might play for anyone not familiar with the area, but if you're from around here, his claim that it only added two miles is hysterical. As a local, I can tell you that's a difference of typically an hour and a couple gallons of gas, being generous. I've had that detour to drop a friend off in Chelsea add two hours before. Only two miles may be true, but baldly mischaracterizes the energy cost.