Eu acho mesmo muita graça a isto, e fico feliz por atacarem os VE pela parte da autonomia quando a maioria dos mortais concluir que o seu CI faz 800km com o deposito cheio, mas que só metem 15/20€ para 150km
Ora aqui está!
Esta é a vantagem alargada que o comum dos mortais "teima" em não ver...
Pois é amigos, 15 ou 20 Euros para fazer 150Km poderá ser verdade em não muito longo prazo... já para não falar no TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)...
...contudo, confesso que fiquei um pouco desiludido com a possibilidade da electricidade vir a ser taxada com uma taxa superior de IVA...
Exclusive: Hey Top Gear, You Have To Fill Up Electric Cars Too, Duh!
Top Gear, Filming in Lincoln, England with 2011 Nissan Leaf and 2011 Peugeot iOn. Reproduced with permission, The Lincolnite
"Have you ever been on those roads in North Dakota where you pass a sign that says “No gas for next 80 miles"?
Or perhaps you’ve traveled through the frozen wastelands of Northern Canada or Alaska and learned that the gas station you just passed was the last one for more than 100 miles. You’d be certifiably crazy to not stop and fill up ... right?
Well, crazy might be just one way to describe the latest antics of the U.K’s favorite motoring entertainment program Top Gear,
Its hosts, James May and Jeremy Clarkson, were spied yesterday in the rural city of Lincoln eliciting the muscle power of local university students to push a 2011 Nissan Leaf into a position where its apparently dead battery could more easily be recharged.
But as we’ve discovered before, nothing Top Gear does is as straight forward as it seems on TV.
A statement released exclusively to us by Nissan Motor (GB) Ltd reveals that the Top Gear production crew intentionally didn't recharge the car the night before.
The goal was to engineer the specific scenes that were described yesterday by local Lincoln news site The Lincolnite.
In Nissan's first public response since the story broke, director of communications Tom Barnard told AllCarsElectric:
“Pictures rarely tell the whole story, as is the case here. Top Gear has confirmed to us that the crew intentionally drained the battery to inject suspense into the mission of finding a public charge spot.
"Lincoln is an area ... renowned for not having any public charging infrastructure. Top Gear does not intend to use the scenes of the car out of charge as an illustration that the claimed range is false.
"The car was fully charged overnight and we are confident that the presenters will have enjoyed driving it today."
According to Nissan, then, Top Gear says its intention is not to repeat the same kind of stunt it did back in 2008 with the Tesla Roadster.
Instead, we can infer that the popular entertainment show will highlight the difficulties of charging an electric car in an area known to have no electric car charging spots.
In short, taking a purposely flat electric car to an area without public charging stations--only to find it eventually drains its battery--is like not paying your credit card bill, and then wondering why you can’t use it any more.
Or not refilling your gas tank, and then taking an almost-empty car onto those long, flat streches of road in the least populated areas of the States, where gas stations may be up to 100 miles apart.
But the eagle-eyed among you may notice that while Top Gear chose a public-charging desert to film the escapade, they forgot one simple fact.
That is: While cars like the 2011 Nissan Leaf may charge faster using quick-charge Level III stations, they can also recharge on a standard domestic power outlet. And in the U.K., those are twice as powerful as the standard wall current in the States.
And of course, wall sockets are ... well ... everywhere.
Oops.
NOTE: We have not been able to obtain a statement from the BBC concerning this story, nor have we been able to obtain a statement from Peugeot in respect to the Peugeot iOn electric car also spotted during the Lincolnshire film shoot."
Afinal aqueles brincalhões do Top Gear não carregaram propositadamente o Leaf para ficar sem energia mais cedo só que tiveram azar e o Sistema Carwings comprova o não carregamento
Eu acho graça aos tipos
Acham mesmo que este tipo de publicidade é má?
Se fosse uma critica séria/convencional teria tanta visibilidade? Alguém compra ou deixa de comprar um carro por causa de uma apreciação humorística destes gajos?
Nunca vi o programa na TV, o cabo não chega aqui, mas no outro dia em casa de um amigo que tinha gravado uma comparação entre um (??bugatti??) e um avião entre Itália e Inglaterra (o carro ganhou), alguém vai optar por comprar o carro em detrimento do avião?
entre Itália e Inglaterra (o carro ganhou), alguém vai optar por comprar o carro em detrimento do avião?