By Brie Stimson Fox News
Jerry Seinfeld isn’t interested in driving electric.
The comedian, famous for his classic car collection, claimed recently that driving an electric car is more of a “virtue signal” than anything else.
“I’m not interested in electric cars at all,” he told AirMail in an interview published Saturday. “Anybody else wants to do it, that’s fine. I think it’s a big, stupid virtue signal. ‘Look at me. I’m saving the planet, yeah.’ What about the lithium? It’s all BS.”
The manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries that power electric vehicles have an impact on the environment, but EV users argue that’s negated over time if the car is driven long enough.
The stand-up comedian joked after he was asked about self-driving cars, that he always tells his kids: “that their kids will say to them, ‘You mean, when you grew up, they would let people just drive at any speed and steer the car themselves? Didn’t they just crash and kill themselves constantly?’ Yeah.”
The 72-year-old is known for collecting rare Porsches, and he’s not sure how many he has right now.
“I always say it’s an amount that if you looked at it, you would not say, ‘This makes sense.’”
