Mr. Bean (atkinson) Actor Says the Electric Car ‘Honeymoon’ Is Over. Benefits dont add up. He has masters in elctrical engineering

It won't matter to Americans.
Democrats will mandate zero emissions, China-only component supply with government employees as the only priority.

Conservative Christian heterosexuals will be banned from anything resembling freedom of movement or access to any part of infrastructure supply chains.

Also, we will be dealing with radioactive craters where our asshole blue cities used to be.

The only sodium ion tech we will be worrying about is getting enough salt to eat.

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The degrees for Electrical Engineering are often WEAK in background.

I'll explain.

Electrical Engineering is generation, distribution to loads...with different draws and modes, but mostly about heavy load work.

Such education is useful, but the degree MUST be refined into at least 20th century relevance as ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING.

That is defined as as mastering the myriad complex applications using electron control devices.

These are applied everywhere since 1870s, first big one was carbon granule microphone used for telephony on DC circuit.

Much more significant was Lee DeForest's triode, with actual voltage gain.

With that began "active" device applications, yet EE degrees now leave graduates with massive knowledge gaps in understanding technology.

But he's correct, the energy density and costs MIGHT make sense for some people, but actually environmentally negated by the current gluttonous model of leasing vehicles or buying new every 3-4 years.


Even EE degrees are now compromised by political pressure.

Off topic but anyone else remember Rowan Atkinson, Mr Bean, passing away a few years ago? Weird that he is alive again.

First they told you to buy a gasoline car, then they told you to get en electric car to protect the environment, next will be "oops guess electric cars aren't so good" so you'll own nothing

Lithium ion batteries are garbage but I don't see how they can cause more pollution than a combustion engine

EV trucks being built for the consumer market have two banks of batteries with a total combined weight of 8,000 pounds!

Let me say that again!

8,000 pounds of lithium batteries per consumer-sized EV truck!

California requires all semi trucks be EV by 2024...that's just six months from now.

How many banks of batts will those trucks need? 30,000 pounds of lithium batts per truck?

And what about the charging stations. One (1) 4-megawatt charging station would draw more power than a small city requires in 24-hours. (Am I exaggerating here? These numbers are from the top of my head.)

First they told you to buy a gasoline car, then they told you to get en electric car to protect the environment, next will be "oops guess electric cars aren't so good" so you'll own nothing

25,000 for a new battery in about 8-10 years doesn't get me hyped up to run out and buy one of them.

Now if the government wants to buy me one, sure I'll take it.

The problem with EVs is they are powering them up the wrong way.

HYDROGEN FUEL CELLS is the right way.

But they need to figure out how hydrogen will be safely stored in a car (especially when the vehicle is involved in an accident), how to produce an efficient AND inexpensive fuel cell, along with the infrastructure to provide hydrogen on demand.

Rowan Atkinson is a libtard tosser. I look at this as an example of the phrase "even a broken clock is right twice a day".

The actor and comedian behind the popular Mr. Bean character has called on drivers to hold off buying an electric vehicle (EV), saying the environmental benefits do not stack up.

Rowan Atkinson, a long-time motor enthusiast with a degree and master’s in electrical engineering, said current EV technology was more harmful to the environment than it was worth.

“Increasingly, I’m feeling that our honeymoon with electric cars is coming to an end, and that’s no bad thing: we’re realising that a wider range of options need to be explored if we’re going to properly address the very serious environmental problems that our use of the motor car has created,” Atkinson wrote in The Guardian newspaper.


He pointed to figures released by automotive giant Volvo revealing that greenhouse gas emissions during the EV production process were 70 percent higher than building a petrol car.

“How so?” Atkinson said.

“The problem lies with the lithium-ion batteries fitted currently to nearly all-electric vehicles: they’re absurdly heavy, huge amounts of energy are required to make them, and they are estimated to last only upwards of 10 years.

He also pointed to current efforts to develop newer technologies, like solid-state batteries, hydrogen fuel cells, and synthetic fuels, but noted more time was needed before they became mainstream.

Atkinson said a bigger problem beyond technology was the current three-year leasing model for car ownership, where owners move onto a new car at the end of the timeframe.

“This seems an outrageously profligate use of the world’s natural resources when you consider what great condition a three-year-old car is in,” Atkinson said, saying owners could just learn to use their cars for longer instead, effectively lowering demand for new vehicles.



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The problem with EVs is they are powering them up the wrong way.

HYDROGEN FUEL CELLS is the right way.

But they need to figure out how hydrogen will be safely stored in a car (especially when the vehicle is involved in an accident), how to produce an efficient AND inexpensive fuel cell, along with the infrastructure to provide hydrogen on demand.

Rowan Atkinson is a libtard tosser. I look at this as an example of the phrase "even a broken clock is right twice a day".

err no, despite being Britain's most popular comedian he has been non-personed by the leftozoids for decades - along with all of Britains other popular comedians, who wouldn't pay lipservice to woke lefitist insanity.

John Cleese Rick Mayall, Jeremy Clarkson, Benny Hill, Harry Enfield.