Following Elon Musk’s initial denouncement of The New York Times for publishing a fake review of the Tesla Model S electric car, he has now published the actual logs recorded by the car — and boy are they damning. In short, the NYT’s John Broder lied through his teeth to smear electric vehicles in general, and the Model S in specific.

The basic premise of John Broder’s story for The Times was that the car lied about its self-reported estimated remaining range; when it said there was 79 miles left in the batteries, there was in actual fact only 60. Eventually, after a few such cases of the on-board computer misreporting the estimated range, and apparently through no fault of his own, his Model S ran out of juice and had to be towed to the nearest charging station.

The vehicle’s logs, published today by Elon Musk, tell a very different story. The logs show that Broder intentionally failed to charge his car properly, and even drove around a parking lot in an attempt to drain the car’s battery. Despite claiming to set cruise control at 54 mph and turning off the heat to conserve battery life, the logs show that Broder did neither — instead, he turned the heat up to 74F (23C) and drove at speeds between 65 and 81 mph for most of the trip.

It gets better. According to Tesla’s logs, Broder’s Model S never actually ran out of battery, including when he called out a tow truck. It would seem that Broder completely fabricated that portion of the story, simply to fuel the flames of electric range anxiety. This isn’t to say that Broder didn’t try to run the car flat: He drove around a tiny parking lot in Milford, Connecticut for 0.6 miles while the car told him he had zero miles remaining. When the car refused to die, he eventually headed over to the Milford Supercharging facility.

Speaking of charging, not once did Broder recharge his Model S fully. During his second recharge, despite running into reserve power on the previous leg (-5 miles remaining), he deliberately stopped charging at 72%. He also lied about how long the second recharge lasted — the story says 58 minutes, but the logs show 47 minutes. At the third recharge point, where he claimed he ran out of battery (he didn’t), he stopped the recharge at 28%. It certainly seems like he was trying rather hard to make the Model S fail.

Beyond the damning logs, Elon Musk also takes the opportunity to remind us that the Model S is truly an exceptional car. Yes, electric cars suffer in cold weather, but Musk tells us that Norway and Switzerland are both big customers of Tesla cars. The Model S has been driven through Death Valley and on a track of pure ice in Minnesota, and yet an NYT journalist by the name of John Broder was incapable of a leisurely drive from DC to New York. That Tesla has built an electric car capable of driving 300 miles, at a max speed of 130 mph, with a 0-60 of 4.4 seconds, is quite astonishing.

It will be very interesting to see how The Times responds to Musk’s claims. It’s possible that the logs were fabricated, but when you consider Broder’s love of Big Oil and his public distaste for electric vehicles, I am fairly certain that retractions will be made and heads will roll.

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