The NYT review was definitely damaging to Tesla. The failure to dimensionalize li-ion power by a thermal variable is an engineering and marketing failure. On that count alone NYT review scores points. Whether or not the PR counter-punch will have sufficient weight, only time will tell. But fundamental limits of [li-ion] battery-powered electric cars are now very clearly two: (1) poor energy to mass ratio; and (2) variability/innefficiency in cold weather. The main problem with (2) is (1), which limits the ability to brute-force a solution.
