Tesla sues BBC for libel over rigged Top Gear test

Let's put this out there: Tesla Motors is a feisty little company. " Tesla has also had a long-standing beef with the BBC TV show Top Gear, largely because of that memorable 2008 review of the century's first real modern electric vehicle. If you don't remember, that was the show where the Roadster supposedly ran out of energy on the track. pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">See the PDF complaint). Tesla's point is that Top Gear had an idea in mind (that electric vehicles are lame) and staged the show to prove it.

Tesla sues BBC for libel over rigged Top Gear test