David SacerdoteThere's a reason that Rowan Atkinson almost never spoke in his role as Mr. Bean.
The Washington Post's response to his Guardian piece bashing EVs makes it pretty clear why.
Gift link is paywall-bypassing for the next couple weeks.
billheywoodQuoting the Volvo nonsense suggests he's not very good at assessing the quality of research as does reference to hydrogen and e-fuels
Just looks like a petrol head looking for excuses
Mark Scourse@billheywood @dsacer You could maybe have had this 'debate' ten years ago. It's utterly irrelevant now. The economics and the auto market has chosen #evs and economics of scale mean that even if you wanted #ice (why?) in a few decades you won't be able to buy one. Where are you going to fill it up? At what cost? Who's going to maintain it?
@markscourse @dsacer
Great point, it won’t take very long for petrol stations to start taking out pumps and replacing them with EV chargers and once that happens the writing is on the wall
Why would any fuel company spend the hundreds of thousands of pounds it costs to replace the underground tank for liquid fuel now?