It’s a thoughtful, nuanced take grounded in some reasonable (though imperfect) engineering and economics. He correctly points out that battery manufacturing isn

It’s a thoughtful, nuanced take grounded in some reasonable (though imperfect) engineering and economics. He correctly points out that battery manufacturing isn’t an old growth forest and that longer lifecycles for manufactured goods are better for the environment. That’s more complicated than “buy an electric car to save the planet!” but it’s less wrong. His conclusion, in his words: “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. We should keep developing hydrogen, as well as synthetic fuels to save the scrapping of older cars which still have so much to give, while simultaneously promoting a quite different business model for the car industry, in which we keep our new vehicles for longer, acknowledging their amazing but overlooked longevity.”