Possibly I'm making the mistake we're all accusing Tesla of here which is taking TG too seriously. In regard to it's view of electric cars I'd say it's positio

Possibly I'm making the mistake we're all accusing Tesla of here which is taking TG too seriously. In regard to it's view of electric cars I'd say it's position is pretty much to deliberately miss the point (that is that they are practical items rather than performance ones) and to play that for comic effect. As you say, they like attractive, fast cars (and curiously the Renault Megane which I recall Hammond liked which is neither) and electric cars are designed to be practical and functional - two things which generally are lower down the list of what they consider worthy of note. Where I have trouble (and I'm running the risk of contradicting things I've said elsewhere in this thread) is that while the presenters and programme makers exaggerate this for entertainment value, I'm not so convinced that it isn't a more accurate representation of the opinions of many of the shows viewers who do have an overly negative view of electric cars. But maybe that's just me being biased against how I perceive a "typical" TG viewer (to be clear I do watch it, though not always and I'm really not typical in that I don't really care about cars, I just find it amusing).