Popular British television show “Top Gear” has taken the Opel Ampera plug-in hybrid for a spin over the Vormsi island's ice road, ERR News reported.
'Top Gear' crew speeds over Estonian ice road
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The “Top Gear” website said that its producers had picked Estonia as the test site for the show's "2012 Green Car of the Year" both because of the Estonia's newly-inaugurated nationwide electric car charging infrastructure and because of its cold climate and good ice roads.
The team wanted to test under local winter conditions as electric cars may have a harder time operating in cold temperatures, reported the regional newspaper Lääne Elu.