Richard Hammond\u2019s rookie Tesla mistake almost ends in disaster YouTube: DriveTribeThe Grand Tour host Richard Hammond almost found himself stranded after making a rookie error with a Tesla Model X \u2013 forgetting to give it some juice ahead of a trip. As car owners across the globe have started to embrace the electrical revolution, more and more charging stations have started popping up like gas stations \u2013 though, the wait to get back on the road is a little longer. However, when you drive an electric car like a Tesla Model X, you can\u2019t just rely on hitting up a charging point during your journey, it does help to charge at your home too. Yet, that\u2019s a mistake Richard Hammond made during a trip back home from the North of England. Hammond, the popular TV host and car reviewer, posted the video on the Drivetribe YouTube page, showing how he and his wife were headed to the Lake District in the North West of England. On his way up, the 50-year-old showed how quick a supercharged charging point could get his car back on the road \u2013 taking around 25 minutes to give him enough juice to complete the journey. Though, on his way back home, he encountered a problem right off the bat. Hammond hadn\u2019t charged his Tesla Model X overnight and, instead, was down to the barebones of a charge. \u201cI\u2019m new to the world of electric cars and I\u2019m suffering with crippling range anxiety,\u201d he quipped, noting that he\u2019d make it to a charging point with around 1% charge left. Timestamp for mobile viewers of 8:30 Though the Tesla had enough power to get him to the next set of chargers, that didn\u2019t stop the former Top Gear host from panicking \u2013 almost making a wrong turn and reversing into another car before making his stop. Despite being flustered by everything, Hammond eventually played it cool and tried to joke about what had just happened, though, his wife wouldn\u2019t let him get away with it too easy, poking fun at him not keeping the car charged. On the bright side, it\u2019s probably the last time he\u2019ll forget to keep his car charged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Richard Hammond\u2019s rookie Tesla mistake almost ends in disaster YouTube: DriveTribeThe Grand Tour host Richard Hammond almost found himself stranded after making a rookie error with a Tesla Model X \u2013 forgetting to give it some juice ahead of a trip. As car owners across the globe have started to embrace the electrical revolution, more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}