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Tesla CEO responds to car critic

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Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc., lashed out at a New York Times reviewer who wrote about a nail-biting tale of woe trying to take one of the $100,000 vehicles on an extended motor trip.

 
On CNBC Monday, Musk called the review a “fake” and said the reviewer didn’t fully charge the Tesla Model S and took a detour during the test. ”NYTimes article about Tesla range in cold is fake,” Musk later tweeted.

 
NYT reviewer John Broder wrote: “I drove a state-of-the-art electric vehicle past a lot of gas stations. I wasn’t smiling.”

 
The reason, he said, was during the cold weather conditions, the car’s batteries didn’t deliver nearly the stated range and the only two charging stations between New York and Boston were too far apart to reach. He wrote that he needed to have the car towed to a charging station after the battery quit.

 
In a statement responding to Musk’s comments, the newspaper said the review was “completely factual, describing the trip as it occurred. Any suggestion that the account was ‘fake’ is, of course, flatly untrue.” And, “There was no unreported detour.”

 

Read more: Tesla Calls NYT Electric Car Review a ‘Fake’

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