Top Gear and an out-of-juice Nissan Leaf [video]

I agree with at some part.but the problem is,when these cars came to sale, there was an agreement by the goverment that there would exist infrastructures ready for these types of cars by the time they would come to market, and they simply don't exist. So, in this case, maybe it's not (only) a critic to the electric cars range, but the way that this process of introduction to the market was treated by the brands and local goverments, because in other countries, the same is happening. Now, these cars main purpose are the cities? well, i think yes, but the brands should clearly anounce that to the consumer. I personally think that this whole electric car introduction was rushed to quickly so that the european union and some hippies, like jeremy would say, would be happy for a while.these cars either should have a bigger range or a really fast charging time, so that they could really be an alternative to the internal combustion engine.

so if you have a stupid electric car, you can't go to Lincolnshire?

it's not necessarily even about where they can or cannot go to, this is a common problem even amongst ordinary cars I don't know why they are making such a fuss...there places or towns everywhere in each sizeable country where there won't be any types of fuel available, I'm quiet sure there is a Fuel gauge in the car which they intentionally overlooked...this is staged, they are giving Nissan a bad PR on purpose...

I don't see why people should be offended by what is said on the show. Top Gear is an entertainemt show, not a factual programme. I love TG, but I wouldn't take much advice from it.

@N20_Purge, there are allot of people out there that don't separate fact from fiction when it comes to watching their favorite shows. And although Top Gear is an entertainment only show, they do present it as a review show.

there is a reason behind disliking electric cars. the reasons are: impracticality, lack of speed/power/sound/feel, necessity to charge, lack of long range drive0-ability, unreliability(electrical issues), and the fact that the electricity comes from power factories which burn oil in one way or another with very little efficiency to produce power or usage of nuclear power which is very costly, hazardous(radioactive byproducts/trash) and it actually requires alot of oil to run a power factory either directly or in directly. to add to all this batteries that are used in electric vehicles go through alot of processing and use a lot of oil and money to be produced. I hope you can come up with a good reason to dislike a piece of history (muscle cars) while you are defending the doomed future which if followed would most likely would result directly in forcing the mass of population to use public transportation while paying an unreasonably high cost.

@shaahinmt, you obviously no nothing about EVs. And from your comment I can tell that you also know nothing about gasoline. So why even bother commenting? Try reading a bit more and then come back with some educated comments.

every vegetarian, the same reply when facing the facts.

wow a rotary engine!! we all know how efficient those things are.

...That car is called a Chevrolet Volt or Opel Ampera