Robert Llewellyn

Electric cars? They're rubbish aren't they?! Nothing but glorified golf carts that take forever to charge and then run out of power on the way to the shops. Try finding somewhere to charge them. They cost a fortune to buy and another fortune to replace the battery when its range drops to half. You don't want to believe all that nonsense about them being environmentally-friendly.

They are actually worse than petrol-powered cars because the batteries are made from dirty lithium and use electricity made from dirtier coal. There isn't even enough lithium in the world to make all the new batteries we'd need anyway.

Electric cars are just rubbish. Aren't they? - Robert says no. This evening he'll tell you why he thinks we need to put away our prejudices and think seriously about electric vehicles as the future of transport.