Tesla Motors’ Devastating Design Problem

[TheWraith]

9. They don't have five examples. Actually, they only have one identified.

The other four are "allegedly," "reportedly," "apparently." "Apparently" they either didn't bother to do any actual investigation of those cars, what happened, whether they were really bricked, and if so what the cause was beyond deciding that it was Tesla's fault. Out of curiosity, if I take a brand new car and drive it 500 miles with no oil in the engine, what do you think will happen? And when it dies, will that be the fault of the manufacturer because they couldn't violate the laws of physics?

More to the point, even if we assume that that all five of the article's examples are genuine and completely valid... out of ~2,200 Roadsters sold, that represents a failure rate of 0.22%. Anyone happen to know the failure rate on new gas cars--or more importantly, the rate of people managing to destroy new cars via screwups?

This is one blogger trying to attract attention to himself by creating a story that really isn't one.