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Tesla is going after Top Gear over two years after the BBC show mocked its electric Tesla Roadster. Tesla is suing Top Gear and the BBC as a result of a December 2008 episode which featured a race between the Tesla Roadster and a gas-powered Lotus Elise.

The show featured Jeremy Clarkson claiming the Tesla ran out of charge at 55 miles followed by footage of it being pushed around a garage. Clarkson concluded his piece saying: “It’s just a shame that in the real world, it doesn’t seem to work.” Only that seems not to be the case…

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Porsche Boxster E electric outed

February 15, 2011 10:40 am by
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A Porsche Boxster E electric has been outed but it won’t be coming to the roads just yet. Porsche outed three electric prototypes in Stuggart as a teaser of its future plans…

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US Update: BlackBerry PlayBook, iTunes $10k giveaway, Motorola AtrixKicking off your weekend right it’s your morning dose of tech — the US Update. We’ve got the latest forecasts on the BlackBerry PlayBook Q1 2011 shipments, a story on an electric car traveling from London to Edinburgh, the Motorola Atrix Orange UK release date and more.

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Electric car challenge complete: London to EdinburghIn a move to inspire British motorists to look into possibility of relying on an entirely electric car, the BBC’s Brian Milligan took up a challenge to drive from London to Edinburgh this week. It’s not quite as easy as one might think, in fact the rules of the challenge required that he only charge the car’s battery at public points. After four long days and plenty of patience, the journey is complete.

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Here’s our pick of the most bombastic and unusual displays on show at the Panasonic booth at CES. Click through for a full gallery, of sand scupling, a exploded Lumix Panasonic digital camera and, as we’ve come to expect at CES: lots of TVs.

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Electric cars (like the Nissan Leaf) have one big problem right now – they need plenty of places to charge and we don’t have the infrastructure now. New Zealand firm Halo IPT plans to counteract that using the principle that you can charge a vehicle using electromagnetic fields – it’s Powermat and the Palm Pre charger meets Scalextric…
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Think electric cars, and your mind will doubtless flit between the G-Whizz, outlandish concept cars that’ll never hit British roads, and finally, a milk float. But the Nissan Leaf is about to change that. It’s the first all-electric plug in family car to hit the tarmac, and we’ve had an early turn behind the wheel to see if it can shake off the ‘leccy car’s dowdy image.

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When the DeLorean originally went Back To The Future, electric cars were truly futuristic but now they’re a reality. The team at Wired Italy have got hold of Doc Brown’s favourite motor and team up an Italian car customisation company to stick batteries beside the Flux Capacitor…
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