Jeremy and James look for somewhere to plug in the LEAF and iOn
Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson and James May have been testing the Nissan LEAF and Peugeot iOn in Lincoln, and appear to have run out of power.
Top Gear and electric cars don’t really mix. Unless of course they build the electric car themselves, and then you have a world-beating product in the Hammerhead Eagle i-Thrust.
But Top Gear and Tesla wasn’t exactly a success story. Quite rightly, Top Gear praised the performance, but did perhaps imply more grief than actually happened. But they are still quite right that even a £100k Tesla can’t solve the problems of range, recharging and cost.
And now it appears Messrs Clarkson and May are doing a piece for the next Top Gear series with a Nissan LEAF and a Peugeot iOn. Whether Hammond is lurking somewhere in another electric car we don’t know, but Jeremy and James certainly ran out of electricity in Lincoln. Or did they?
According to a witness – who made the video at the bottom – the tow truck in attendance arrived two hours before the hapless Top Gear presenters arrived in their electric cars and ran out of juice, just where planned. Coincidence or good planning, we’re sure.
We will no doubt find out when Top Gear returns.
Lee Avison says
I would have love to have seen top gear boys today . These Electric cars will never be a success, how on gods earth did they get off the production line, who is the bloke that invented this crazy idea . I mean of what use do they have ? Answer No use what so ever.
bob says
So what’s your answer to the oil running out and becoming increasingly more expensive Lee? Don’t see you making a lot of suggestions about what to do? Funny, but I bet you have a mobile phone, and if people in the mid eighties had taken the same attitude towards battery technology then as you are now then you’d still be tied to your landline.
Yes, for the time being the technology of electric cars is a little below expectations for those of us who commute more than 50 miles a day, or can only afford one car, but sitting on the side lines saying “what use do they have ? Answer No use what so ever.” is not going to move the technology forward. If you really love ICE cars then you better hope electric ones become popular since otherwise once the Chinese and Indians get as many cars per household as we do in Europe you’re going to need a bank loan just to fill up your car.