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BBC Top Gear’s James May: I’m Buying A BMW i3 Electric Car
MAY 26, 2014 BY NIKKI GORDON-BLOOMFIELD
He’s part of the trio known worldwide for their love of everything petrol, a team which has traditionally taken great pains to paint electric cars as slow, boring, expensive and impractical.
But now BBC Top Gear presenter James May has come out of the closet: he’s buying a BMW i3 REx electric car.
BBC Top Gear Presenter James May is buying an electric car. (Photo: Flickr User Airwolfhound, (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Talking on BBC Radio 4′s You & Yours Bank Holiday Monday special today on electric cars, the 51-year old petrol head not only admitted that he ‘quite likes’ electric cars — but that he’s going to buy one, too.
“We’ve known for a long time that the electric motor is the ideal way to propel an electric car,” he said. “We’re discovering that there’s a different sort of pleasure in motoring in an electric car because of the smoothness, the silence.”
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