I don't know why people view Top Gear's review of the Roadster so negatively. OK sure, they rolled it back into their garage as if it had run out of electricity when in fact it had not...but the point they were making was one of how long it takes to charge the car and how inconvenient that was at the time (there were no Tesla Superchargers at the time, and almost no public charging infrastructure.) And it's absolutely true that if you run the car around the track, it will last far less than its claimed range of 200 miles. I believe their show claimed 55 miles.
That show also included this great quote: "What we have here then is an astonishing technical achievement: the first electric car that you might actually want to buy." (right before things go south) On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 2:28 AM, brucedp5 via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > % ?An about-turn/flip-flop to pr season2 of their streamed TVshow featuring > a snaffled/nicked Tesla EV? % > > http://www.carscoops.com/2017/12/clarkson-says-he-has-no-issue-with.html > Clarkson Says He Has No Issue With Electric Vehicles > Dec 6, 2017 Brad Anderson > > However, in the near decade since the former Top Gear host’s infamous > review > of the Tesla Roadster, electric cars have come a long way. So, have > Clarkson’s views changed as well? > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20171211/ff2f4b21/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
