Top Gear Executive Producer: “Our primary reasoning behind the verdict had nothing to do with how the Tesla performed”
He may have been better remaining quiet. He essentially admits that many of their statements were not based on testing, but on calculations and their opinion that nobody would want a car that needed to be recharged after a couple hundred miles.
For me, if I had money just sitting around, I’d already own one of these cars. For most of my driving, 200 miles a day would be more than enough. I’d still need my Prius for our long-haul vacations. But my average day is about 20 miles of driving, maybe 40 if I have to run errands, and even a lot of my weekend outings are under 200 miles total.
Watch the entire video of the test and you will see that their statement/opinion was accurate
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I drive roughly 40 miles 1 way. There is no way a electric car would help me at all..