I'm glad you used the words "intellectually dishonest." sure, you can show what would happen if you ran out of electricity. You could show leaving on your journey with only half the electricity needed to make the trip, you could show the car telling you how far it could go before requiring a charge, you could show the GPS telling you you can't make it to your destination, and you could show the car being driven around a loop to run out of charge.

Would that be intellectually honest?

Then why don't they show gasoline powered cars stuck on the side of the highway? Maybe even a broken timing belt or one of the litany of other things that can leave you royally screwed if driving an internal combustion powered vehicle. What they have done with EV reviews is just plain dishonest.

Because if you are stuck on the side of the highway, you can call AAA and have them bring a few gallons for you to make it to the next gas station. And there are gas stations on every corner, and it takes 5 minutes to refuel.

As far as the timing belt, that's long term maintenance, and doesn't need to be changed for 80K miles. And even then, it's a $800 service(unless you do it yourself), which is a crapload less than the cost it'll take to replace the batteries of an electric car around that same time.

And Top Gear does this crap with everyone. It's just EV fanboys are light weights who can't take it. How about the 458 Italia, and their gauge clusters? Or how about something 100% exactly the same...the Ford GT clip where it kept running of gas? Or how about the F40 and the 959 that "broke down"?

The point is that Top Gear does this sort of thing all the time, and if people complaining were actual fans who viewed the show regularly, they wouldn't raise so much stink just because someone dared to give a review that didn't proclaim all glory to the hypnotoad.

Perhaps because there's a gas station every 10 feet, but electric charging stations are much fewer and further between.