Jeremy Clarkson, former Top Gear host and motoring journalist, has revealed a revealing six-word mantra that captures his impatience, particularly when faced with modern technology such as electric cars.
In his latest column for the Sunday Times, Clarkson confess that he simply doesn’t possess “the mental capacity” to wait even 10 minutes for an electric car to charge. This impatience, he admits, extends to everyday gadgets and situations—like his Sky box or elevator doors that don’t close immediately.
He explained: “If I ever get in a lift that doesn’t have a button you can press to close the doors, I have what feels very like a coronary. I have a mantra: ‘Now. Or I can’t be bothered.'”
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Jeremy also shared his confusion over electric vehicles, questioning the mechanics behind them. He said, “Will a battery-powered Renault 5 save civilisation from itself? I’m really not convinced it will. I also have no idea how such cars work.”
He added, “Some, I’m led to believe, have two electric motors, one for the back wheels and one for those up front. And I cannot comprehend how this is possible.”
Beyond technology troubles, Clarkson is confronting significant difficulties on his Diddly Squat farm. Fans of Clarkson’s Farm can look forward to its fifth series on Amazon Prime this May, but production of the sixth series has been delayed due to poor weather and a bovine TB outbreak that forced part of the farm to shut down.
Adding to these woes, Clarkson revealed in the My Week in Cars podcast that a donkey on the farm is seriously ill. “There’s no script to this TV show,” he said, “people always go it’s staged, but the pigs dying, Gerard’s cancer – you can’t stage any of it.”
He continued, “We’ve got a donkey that’s desperately ill at the moment, we’ve all got our fingers crossed that it makes it, but I don’t know, I can’t write a script saying ‘then it got better’ because you don’t know what the donkey’s going to do.”
Highlighting the uncertainty of farm life, Clarkson concluded, “So you have to be ready to go – but you do spend an awful lot of time sitting around doom scrolling on your phone waiting for the weather to get better or for animals to do something.”