Despite a contentious New York Times review, the crushing weight of the oil companies on its back, and ten years of hard work, Tesla says it finally managed to turn a profit in the first quarter of 2013.
Tesla's posh all-electric cars are cool, but they're expensive. So when the company announced a financing scheme on Tuesday that could bring ownership cost below $500 a month, we listened.
So just how bad was that bad was that New York Times review of the Tesla S Sedan? Well, according the company's CEO, about $100 million bad.
New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan has published her final word on The New York Times vs. Tesla saga, saying that she does not think writer John M. Broder purposefully sabotaged the Model S test drive. But she isn't letting him off the hook completely.
Elon Musk likes CNN's new telling a lot better than the one from The New York Times — perhaps because CNN followed Tesla's exact guidelines instead of, you know, going for a road trip.
Elon Musk's long-awaited blog post take-down has arrived with what he claims is the data to prove New York Times reporter John M. Broder committed some sort of journalistic malpractice to run a bad review of the Tesla Model S's range capability.
Following a bold accusation from Tesla CEO Elon Musk that a terrible road-trip with the Model S was "fake," New York Times reporter John M. Broder has clarified that he may have made some operator mistakes but did not make anything up about the car's poor performance.
If a New York Times reporter with an entire squadron of Tesla employees at his disposal, can't even use a Model S electric car properly, as Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk strongly asserted in a tweet this afternoon, it doesn't say much about the usability of Tesla's cars for regular people.
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