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Top Gear Nissan Leaf Episode Sparks Healthy Debate, Positive Reactions

Green Car Reports

A little over a week ago, the BBC aired an episode of its popular motoring entertainment program Top Gear in which presenters Jeremy Clarkson and James May searched in vain for an electric-car charging station. They needed to recharge their fully-drained 2011 Nissan Leaf in the rural English county of Lincolnshire.

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Drayson Racing Sets New Lightweight Electric-Car Speed Record: 204 MPH

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It''s been a good week for electric vehicles in motor sport. At the weekend, Audi''s R18 e-tron, a diesel-electric hybrid race car, took victory at the Le Mans 24-hour race. Also at Le Mans, Nissan unveiled its 2014 competitor for the race, the ZEOD RC electric prototype.

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New Nissan LEAF finds first home with DJ Mark Goodier

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Radio DJ Mark Goodier has become the first person in the UK to take delivery of the newly British-built Nissan LEAF. The former Top of the Pops host, best know for presenting the UK top 40 on BBC Radio One, is replaying his number one motoring moment by collecting his new 2013 Nissan LEAF, a[.]. Electric cars Nissan'

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London to Edinburgh EV trip completed in 13 hours

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A mission to disprove a myth; that electric cars are useless for long distance journeys, went without a hitch. EV advocates Robert Llewellyn and David Peilow managed a London to Edinburgh trip over the weekend in a 2013 model Nissan LEAF in just over 13 hours; smashing the four days it took BBC jour[.].

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London to Edinburgh electric car trip in just 10 hrs for Robert Llewellyn

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The BBC''s relationship with electric cars and its reporting on them have been under scrutiny before, but perhaps no more so than when journalist Brian Milligan took a Mini E electric car from London to Edinburgh just over three years ago. Electric cars Nissan'

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Exclusive: Top Gear's Spoof Electric-Car Episode Leaked (Video)

All Cars Electric

It doesn’t take a scientist to tell you that the team behind BBC’s Top Gear really don’t like electric cars. Everything from the humble G-Wiz through to the mighty Tesla Roadster and the fresh-faced Nissan Leaf have fallen foul of their comical but factually inept portrayal of electric cars.

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Top Gear Tests Nissan Leaf, Peugeot iOn: A Fair Assessment?

All Cars Electric

It's the episode electric car enthusiasts have been itching to see- and now the guys at BBC motoring show Top Gear have tested two electric cars to see whether they make any sense for the car buying public. Now we already know that Top Gear hasn't had the greatest history with electric cars.

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