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Elon Musk's Data Doesn't Back Up His Claims of New York Times Fakery

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Re: Elon Musk's Data Doesn't Back Up His Claims of New York Times Fakery

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you provide a citation for the mis-statements about the Boeing battery situation? I couldn't find any.

He's probably refering to this incident : http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/elon-musk-boeing-7...

I am of course familiar with the incident and that article, all the rest, suggest that Musk probably is correct. An MIT professor confirms and a Boeing engineer does not dispute.

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This article has confirmed crucial aspects of Broder's version with third parties, such as the truck driver who picked up the inert car (it doesn't matter if the battery still has 28% power if the parking brake won't turn off, iirc Priuses also refuse to discharge their batteries below a critical threshold), and used Google Maps to verify other issues (finding the Milford supercharger). I haven't seen anyone attempt…

> I haven't seen anyone attempt to verify actual speeds based on computing the area under the speed graph ... Area under the curve -- then that would be to establish average speeds, yes? I think the recorded road distances and travel times would be a simpler way to establish that. > The correct response to this story was: we need to improve our customer service, software, reporting of range (especially w.r.t. tempera…

Area under the curve is distance. (Integral of speed over time is distance.) We know what the actual distances are so the actual distance could be compared to the area under the graph to verify its accuracy.
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