The Tesla CEO’s mythmaking often obscures an uglier truth.
On a beautiful day in May 2015, I drove the 13 hours from my home in Portland, Oregon, to Harris Ranch, California, halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. At the time, Tesla was touting a battery swap station that could send Tesla drivers on their way in a fully powered vehicle in less than the time it takes to fill up a car with gas.
There, amid the pervasive stench of cow droppings from a nearby feedlot, I discovered that Tesla’swas not in fact being made available to owners who regularly drove between California’s two largest cities. Instead, the company was running diesel generators to power additional Superchargers to handle the holiday rush, their exhaust mingling with the unmistakable smell of bullshit.
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