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"The New York Times poured freezing cold water on the hopes of those wishing for a powerful electric sedan Monday. Writer John Broder took the Tesla Model S for a spin from DC to Boston to test the company's claim that you could do the whole trip by recharging at its two new charging stations along the way.\nAfter multiple charging issues in the winter cold, Broder says he finally broke down on a freeway ramp in Connecticut and had to be towed to the nearest station. \"Theory can be trumped by reality,\" he wrote, \"especially when Northeast temperatures plunge.\" (Read the full article here.)\nSEE ALSO Elon Musk: Secrets of a Highly Effective Entpreneur\nBut Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk fired back on Twitter with some unusually strong language. Broder's story was fake, he said. The writer had taken detours and diversions and had more charge left than he claimed \u2014 and Tesla had the logs to prove it. \n\nNYTimes article about Tesla range in cold is fake. Vehicle logs tell true story that he didn't actually charge to max &amp; took a long detour.\n\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 11, 2013\n\nThe proof? Coming soon, said Musk:\n\nTesla blog coming soon detailing what actually happened on Broder's NYTimes \"range test\". Also lining up other journalists to do same drive.\n\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 11, 2013\n\nThe Times, meanwhile, stuck to its guns. \"The article recounting a reporter's test drive in a Tesla Model S was completely factual,\" the paper said in a statement. \"Any suggestion that the account was 'fake' is, of course, flatly untrue.\"\nThis isn't the first time Tesla has hit back forcefully against what it saw as misleading reviews. It has twice launched unsuccessful libel lawsuits against the BBC car show Top Gear, whose presenter Jeremy Clarkson is avowedly anti-electric car. Clarkson once claimed he only got a 50-mile range on his Tesla Roadster; Musk says the logs show he had another 50 to go.\nAnd that would explain why the logging device in Broder's car was turned on apparently without his knowledge:\n\nTesla data logging is only turned on with explicit written permission from customers, but after Top Gear BS, we always keep it on for media.\n\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 11, 2013\n\nFor his part, Broder has not yet responded on Twitter or elsewhere (his Twitter account has not been active since October). \nBut Broder wouldn't seem as likely as Clarkson to do a hatchet job \u2014 he is, after all, a prominent environmental writer for the Times.\nWho are you backing in this war of words? Let us know in the comments, and check out our interview with Musk in the video below:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage courtesy of Tesla Motors\n      window._msla=window.loadScriptAsync||function(src,id){if(document.getElementById(id))return;var js=document.createElement('script');js.id=id;js.src=src;document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0].parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);};\n_msla(\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\",\"twitter_jssdk\");"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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