>Tesla has a pattern of making deceptive promises and deceptive disclosures but this article doesn't make that case at all.

This is something I find frequently as well, moreso with Musk related things than Tesla. Lord knows there are plenty of things to be critical of.

If investigative journalism wants to regain the respect it once had, fewer allegations with concrete claims serves both the public and faith in media over large quantities of vague claims.

I admit if you want to sway public opinion, the latter is more effective, but is also a mechanism that doesn't require alignment with the truth. When that approach is normalised, it opens the door for anyone to shove popular opinion around.