Top Gear’s Clarkson & May run out of charge in a LEAF & iOn

Jeremy and James look for somewhere to plug in the LEAF and iOn

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.

By Cars UK