Trouble For Nigeria As Shel CEO Confirms Threat On Oil, Plans To Get Electric Car

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Royal Dutch Shell, Ben Van Beurden, has disclosed that  his next car will be an electric car, admitting the threat on the future of oil.

While Chief Financial Officer, Jessica Uhl currently drives a BMW i3 electric car, one of Shell’s spokesperson says the CEO is planning on switching from a diesel car to a plug-in Mercedes-Benz S500e in September, 2017.

Confirming his intention to Bloomberg TV, Van Beurden, expressed that the recent trend to electrify the world as a way of combatting global warming, “is a good thing”.

“The whole move to electrify the economy, electrify mobility in places like northwest Europe, in the U.S., even in China, is a good thing,” Van Beurden told Bloomberg TV. 

“We need to be at a much higher degree of electric vehicle penetration — or hydrogen vehicles or gas vehicles — if we want to stay within the 2-degrees Celsius outcome.”