Mr Bean knows his cars. So, when Rowan Atkinson, a student of electronics engineering and self-confessed car nut (he once featured in Top Gear’s ‘Star in a Reasonably Priced Car’ segment) wrote a provocative piece in The Guardian titled, ‘I love electric vehicles — and was an early adopter, but increasingly feel duped’, it set off a slugfest between the petrolheads and EV evangelists. “Electric cars, of course, have zero exhaust emissions…but if you zoom out a bit and look at a bigger picture that includes the car’s manufacture, the situation is very different,” Atkinson wrote, calling Europe’s EV push...