McLaren's CEO has queried the logic of making electric supercars at this moment in time. Boss Michael Leiters says in an interview with The Times that to manufacture them at the moment actually creates more emissions than building an internal combustion engine. The owners then don’t put in enough miles to recover those extra emissions, because they use them as low-mileage vehicles, only...

Over the last few years the reveal of a ‘groundbreaking’ 2000bhp electric hypercar has become a painfully common affair, creating a wash of new-age supercars such as the Lotus Evija, Pininfarina Battista and all manner of small, artisan start-ups, all with similar ambitions and vying for maximum attention. But there’s always been one outlier to the general rule of evo’s cynicism:...