It's not my impression, either. Basically the only thing that might make Tesla look bad in this is if people believe that Tesla support personnel told Broder a

It's not my impression, either. Basically the only thing that might make Tesla look bad in this is if people believe that Tesla support personnel told Broder all the misinformation that he claims they did. I find it telling, though, that Broder has tried to move the debate from places where there is hard data to places where it's unclear what was said (since, I suppose, no one was recording that). He doesn't really dispute anything Musk says, but only tries to excuse it. I'm usually on the side of not talking back to reviewers of your work, having read that advice over and over in essays and articles by wise authors and other creative types. In this case, though, everyone I've spoken to in person about this is convinced that Broder was just trying to tell the most entertaining story; Musk, given his accomplishments, naturally has higher credibility than Broder. It's a point in Broder's favor that all the people I've spoken with about this are technical types, who might be predisposed to side with Musk, but those are also the sort of people most likely to be swayed by actual hard data, which only one side of this argument has provided.