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BBC’s ‘Top Gear’ Ran Down Electric Car To Push Right-Wing Agenda | Last Sunday, an episode of BBC’s massively popular car show Top Gear “showed Jeremy Clarkson and James May setting off for Cleethorpes in Lincolnshire, 60 miles away” in a Nissan Leaf. “The car unexpectedly ran out of charge when they got to Lincoln, and had to be pushed.” They concluded that “electric cars are not the future”. But Top Gear’s producers had secretly drained the Leaf battery to a 30-mile charge before setting off, and “at no point were viewers told that the battery had been more than half empty at the start of the trip.” Then, “it appeared that the Leaf was driven in loops for more than 10 miles in Lincoln until the battery was flat.”