Apparently, this is not a joke, comedian Rowan Atkinson, famous for his role in “Mr Bean,” has engineering degrees, and was once a lover of electric cars. However, he recently wrote an article published in he Let wing on-line The Guardian putting the case against electric cars. When a whole of market approach is adopted, electric cars are not the environmentally friendly alternatives to fossil fuel cars the Greens proposes, since the actual electricity, is not mainly generated by renewables at all. He cites the case of Volvo saying tht the production of electric cars results in a 70 percent higher production of greenhouse gasses than petrol ones because of lithium-ion batteries fitted currently to nearly all electric vehicles, which require a large amount of energy to make.
