Re:Elon Musk's Data Doesn't Back Up His Claims of New York T...
by stcredzero on Thursday February 14, 2013 @06:22PM
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> 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.
Re:Elon Musk's Data Doesn't Back Up His Claims of New York T...
by pbreit on Thursday February 14, 2013 @05:21PM
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Can you provide a citation for the mis-statements about the Boeing battery situation? I couldn't find any.
Re:Elon Musk's Data Doesn't Back Up His Claims of New York T...
by astine on Thursday February 14, 2013 @05:30PM
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He's probably refering to this incident :http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/elon-musk-boeing-7...
Re:Elon Musk's Data Doesn't Back Up His Claims of New York T...
by alanctgardner2 on Thursday February 14, 2013 @06:25PM
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Nothing in that article implies that Musk was wrong. It's just Musk's public statement that the battery design is faulty.
Re:Elon Musk's Data Doesn't Back Up His Claims of New York T...
by pbreit on Sunday February 17, 2013 @01:12PM
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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.
Re:Elon Musk's Data Doesn't Back Up His Claims of New York T...
by 001sky on Thursday February 14, 2013 @09:10PM
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there is a good chance that most of HN did not in fact read the NYT article before commenting on it
== yikes
Re:Elon Musk's Data Doesn't Back Up His Claims of New York T...
by damoncali on Thursday February 14, 2013 @09:38PM
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Chrome incognito... not that I advocate that sort of thing.
Re:Elon Musk's Data Doesn't Back Up His Claims of New York T...
by aptwebapps on Thursday February 14, 2013 @11:42PM
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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).
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.