Rowan Atkinson’s article misses the point (I love electric vehicles – and was an early adopter. But increasingly I feel duped, 3 June). While it is true that the manufacturing of an electric car produces twice the greenhouse gases of a petrol car, when you take the whole 20-year lifecycle into account, the electric car is a winner: it produces less than half the greenhouse gases of a petrol car. When it comes to climate change, we’re out of time.
Andrew Gould
Bosham, West Sussex
• Like Alec Douet’s, my boarding school kitchen had a scarcity of supplies during wartime (Letters, 31 May). We were sent out foraging in the countryside for hazelnuts and chestnuts, sloes, rosehips, blackberries and damsons.
Desmond Painter
Bournemouth
