• Exantrius
    +3

    yeah, author is an ass. "It's the car's fault that I didn't get the estimated range based on previous usage of a rented car." "when I started running out of power, instead of pulling over so I could switch it to neutral when a tow truck showed up, I ran it completely out of juice". "Hertz and Tesla and AAA left me high and dry until Hertz and Tesla could find someone to come jump and move me".

    Not saying that it doesn't suck that he ran out of power, but if he didn't know how far the car would go, he probably should have pulled off a couple exits early and borrowed an outlet from someone. Also, not driving at night may have helped (power draw of headlights), though then he would be stuck driving during the day (AC) -- Which he doesn't even mention as a power suck, who knows if he disabled that or kept it going full blast.

    It read to me as someone with an axe to grind and decided that the Tesla was going to fail, and made that come true.