The East Coast road trip in Tesla’s Model S sedan by veteran New York Times reporter John Broder has created a bit of a frenzy. Tesla’s devout fans have suggested that “broder” become a verb, as in “to purposely or with willful ignorance run down the battery pack of an electric vehicle to the point that it no longer moves the vehicle.” Now a convoy of Model S owners are doing their own drive, following Broder’s exact itinerary from Maryland to Connecticut this weekend.

“We’re trying to recreate what the New York Times reporter did,” said Aaron Schieldkraut, 46, a proud Model S owner from Yonkers, NY..

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Read @DanaHull’s SiliconBeat.com blog post about the trip.

