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I'm pretty neutral on Tesla/Musk, but I looked at this guy's (Russ Mitchell) writing history and it appears to be an unhealthy fixation on Tesla. His Twitter, and almost every article he writes, is about bashing Tesla. It's like he has real personal beef with Musk, a person he's probably never met.

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He's a journalist, they typically get assigned to cover certain topics. Not surprising that he focuses on the EV space, that's probably in his job description for LA times.

focusing on the ev space != relentlessly bashing one ev company

They are kind of the big cheese of the EV space and you could argue people relentlessly bash Tesla here too. Maybe there is something to these critiques of the company, rather than everyone and anyone just having an axe to grind.

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