Robert Llewelyn explains everything there is to know about Electric Cars

Robert Llewellyn is a British actor, comedian, presenter and writer. He plays the mechanoid Kryten in the TV sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf and formerly presented the TV engineering gameshow Scrapheap Challenge. He also presents a YouTube series, Fully Charged. Llewellyn was born in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England. Llewellyn's first foray into the world of show business started out as a hobby, organising a few amateur cabaret evenings in a riverside warehouse overlooking Tower Bridge in London. The shows were a great success and he eventually helped form an alternative comedy theatre group called the Joeys. Within six months he had stopped working as a shoemaker and started performing professionally with the group alongside Bernie Evans, Nigel Ordish and Graham Allum. The group toured Britain and France in the early 1980s with an initial idea of exploring sexual politics between men. Llewellyn wrote much of the material, and also began writing novels. The group split in 1985, having toured for years and done thousands of shows. ELECTRIC MAYBELLENE As I was motivatin' over the hill I saw Maybellene in a Coupé de Ville A Cadillac a-rollin on the open stretch Nothin' will outrun my Tesla S The Cadillac doin' 'bout 95 She bumper to bumper, rollin' side by side Oh Maybellene well you won't get far Nothing outruns an electric car The Cadillac pulled up at 104 The Tesla hot and wouldn't do no more It done got cloudy and started to rain I tooted my horn for the passin' lane The rain water blowin' all under my hood I knew that wasn't doin' my battery good Maybellene well you won't get far Nothing outruns an electric car Breaker breaker You got your ears on caddy? What's your 20? Seen a county mounty in a plain white wrapper 10-4 The motor cooled down, the heat went down And that's when I heard that highway sound Cadillac sittin' like toad on a lake A 110, a half mile ahead The Cadillac lookin' like it's sittin' still And I caught Maybellene at the top of the hill Maybellene well you won't get far Nothing outruns an electric car Oh Maybellene, why can't you be true? You done started back doin' the things you used to do Maybellene, why can't you see? You're draining my batteries Maybellene, why can't you be true? Why do you do? The things you do? Maybellene, please see How you're draining my batteries ELECTRIC CARS (ft. Helen Austin) Electric cars, electric cars Why's it taking so long? If you want your air clean, forget dirty gasoline Switch to an electric car Electric cars, electric cars Funkier by far Never have I seen a sexier machine I want to get in an electric car I want to give joy to all whom I meet Don't want to leave behind smelly streets Electric cars, electric cars Come on now it's common sense With so much air pollution, can you think of a solution? Dumbo, get in an electric car Electric cars, electric cars The time has come time to change If you want your air clean, forget dirty gasoline Switch to an electric car I want to give joy to all I meet Don't want to leave behind smelly streets I want to soar I want to surge A revolution We're on the verge I want fresh air That's pure a clean Like the future Of my dreams Electric cars, electric cars Where were you all of my life? Only when you've met one will you know you're gonna get one There's no way back from electric cars Electric cars, electric cars Why's it taking so long? If you want your air clean, forget dirty gasoline Switch to an electric car I want to give joy to all whom I meet Don't want to leave behind smelly streets