What the NYT story shows is what most people already thought. If you go on a long trip in a electric car it must be a structured trip. Fully charge the car at each station. Don’t deviate from the route. And you should not have any problems.
What Broder did was drive the car like a normal person would. Not fully charging to save time if he thought he could make his next destination. Then underestimating the range the car could go because of cold weather driving. This is not something Tesla should flip out over. It is real life driving.
If you are driving out west (in the US or Canada) off the Interstate system, it's still recommenced to not leave a town with an open gas station at night without filling up.
The upset appears to involve the newsmedia fabricating certain aspects of a report in order to fit a predetermined narrative, something FReepers almost uniformly condemn.
You know, sort of like fitting an explosive charge to a gas tank to get a vehicle to explode, then reporting how dangerous it is?
I guess it really is the seriousness of the charges instead of the facts that matter.
Dan Rather, is that you, lol?