The Great Reset: Mr. Bean EV=No – Another inconvenient truth about EV cars.

Rowan Atkinson, the Mr. Bean actor, feels increasingly duped by electric vehicles. He said "Sadly, keeping your old petrol car may be better than buying an EV. There are sound environmental reasons not to jump just yet."

"When you start to drill into the facts, electric motoring doesn't seem to be quite the environmental panacea it is claimed to be."

"But if you zoom out a bit and look at a bigger picture that includes the car's manufacture, the situation is very different."

"…in 2021, Volvo released figures claiming that greenhouse gas emissions during production of an electric car are 70% higher than when manufacturing a petrol one. How so? The problem lies with the lithium-ion batteries fitted currently to nearly all electric vehicles: they're absurdly heavy, many rare earth metals and huge amounts of energy are required to make them, and they only last about 10 years. It seems a perverse choice of hardware with which to lead the automobile's fight against the climate crisis."

More in the Geoff Buys Cars video.