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When cycling, fiercely criticise electric car (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tesla

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'electric car' is the definition.
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(Other definitions for tesla that I've seen before include "Physics unit" , "Californian company specialising in electric cars" , "Inventor" , "Physicist" , "Unit of magnetic flux density" .)

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