[gamblor956]

The NYT upgraded their paywall this week, so there is a good chance that most of HN did not in fact read the NYT article before commenting on it.

Also, there is a disturbing amount of herd mentality in these comments; people are instinctively shielding/supporting Elon Musk, a fellow techie, rather than the "interloping" journalist, even though even a cursory Google search of other reviews of the Model S, the Roadster, and other manufacturers' EVs will show that they all suffer from the same battery charging/status problems.

It should also be noted that Elon Musk has made public misrepresentations in the recent past about competitors to SpaceX, in particular, about the cause of Boeing's battery problems, and he had a history of making similar remarks about credit card companies while he worked at Paypal.

[stcredzero]

> It should also be noted that Elon Musk has made public misrepresentations in the recent past about competitors to SpaceX, in particular, about the cause of Boeing's battery problems

Really? As I recall, he speculated that improper isolation between cells allowed for failures to cascade to adjacent ones. Turns out, that's what it was.

[pbreit]

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

[astine]

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

[alanctgardner2]

Nothing in that article implies that Musk was wrong. It's just Musk's public statement that the battery design is faulty.

[pbreit]

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.

[001sky]

there is a good chance that most of HN did not in fact read the NYT article before commenting on it

== yikes

[damoncali]

Chrome incognito... not that I advocate that sort of thing.

[aptwebapps]

My recollection is the same as stcredzero's on the battery comments. What are the cc company comments to which you refer? (Google results seem saturated with more recent events).