{"id":349678,"date":"2011-03-30T11:28:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T11:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/30\/top-gear-denies-fixing-tesla-race\/"},"modified":"2011-03-30T11:28:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T11:28:37","slug":"top-gear-denies-fixing-tesla-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/30\/top-gear-denies-fixing-tesla-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Gear denies fixing Tesla race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"66.600436681223\">\n<div readability=\"61\">\n                    <span><br \/>\n  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/7008e407adster3_466.jpg.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"260\" alt=\"Tesla Roadster\" \/><\/span><br \/>\n<!-- Empty - Wide embedded hyper -->                      <\/p>\n<p>The BBC is being sued by the makers of the electric sports car, the Tesla Roadster, over claims a race on Top Gear was rigged.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla Motors claims the test set up by Jeremy Clarkson on a 2008 edition of the show was rigged to make it look like the Tesla ran out of power when racing a petrol powered Lotus.<\/p>\n<p>The Tesla Roadster is the world&#8217;s fastest production electric car.<\/p>\n<p>A Top Gear spokesman said the BBC would be &#8220;vigorously defending&#8221; the claim.<\/p>\n<p>On the programme Jeremy Clarkson claimed: &#8220;Although Tesla say it&#8217;ll do 200 miles, we worked out that on our track it would run out after just 55 miles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  <span>&#8216;Driven aggressively&#8217;<\/span>      <\/p>\n<p>But in a statement on its website, Tesla said the Roadster&#8217;s miles per charge had been certified at 211 miles by a third party European Union (EU) test. <\/p>\n<p>It argued that because the car was &#8220;driven aggressively&#8221; on Top Gear the charge didn&#8217;t last as long, but that if driven &#8220;mindfully&#8221; charges could last for 313 miles.<\/p>\n<p>The statement also disagreed with several other elements of the show.<\/p>\n<p>A Top Gear spokeswoman said: &#8220;We can confirm that we have received notification that Tesla have issued proceedings against the BBC. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The BBC stands by the programme and will be vigorously defending this claim.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/7008e407adster3_466.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/newsbeat\/12907367\" title=\"Top Gear denies fixing Tesla race\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Top Gear denies fixing Tesla race<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The BBC is being sued by the makers of the electric sports car, the Tesla Roadster, over claims a race on Top Gear was rigged. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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