Debunking Mr Bean's Electric Tropes: EVs Are Far Better For the Planet Than ICE Vehicles

05 Jun 2023 | Abstracted from Driven

Atkinson "is not your typical car owner. According to The Richest, he owns a $15 million ICE car collection..." He "is very precise in cherry picking all the anti-EV tropes, including citing an extremely conservative outlier study

"Atkinson suggests that continuing to run a petrol burning car is somehow better for emissions than upgrading to electric, a trope that's been pushed by fossil fuel industry interests for over a decade."

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