I fail to see why people don't get it. Why would anyone in their right mind set out on a short journey that the car would be able to do on one charge with only 40% of power knowing full well that they'd have to stop and charge for hours and hours and hours and hours and hours in the middle. It's daft and whilst it might satisfy people with single digit IQ's, the BBC should be doing a bit better when doing what would appear to most people to be a factual real world review. What kind of moron takes an electric car on an x mile drive when it's got less juice than is needed to get to the destination or a refuelling point? It is idiotic and was done purely to paint electric vehicles in a needlessly bad light.
Sadly Fifth Gear did a MUCH better job of it, all without doing anything which you or I would do.
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