Former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has admitted he has a six-word mantra brought about by his impatience as he confesses to struggling with electric cars.

The experienced motoring journalist wrote in his Sunday Times column that he doesn’t “have the mental capacity” to spend just 10 minutes waiting for an electric car to charge.

He admitted that this extends to the Sky box behind his television and even to lifts that don’t have a button you can press to close the lift doors.

Jeremy went onto explain that he is sometimes confused about how some electric cars work and why some have two motors and some have one.

Jeremy, 65, said: “And 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.’

“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.

“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.”

Jeremy’s confusion and impatience with modern electric cars comes as the presenter turned farmer battles critical situations at his Diddly Squat farm. The hit Amazon Prime show Clarkson’s Farm is due to return in May for its fifth series.

However, filming of the sixth series had to be halted because of poor weather conditions whilst a bovine TB outbreak at the farm forced the area to be closed down. Jeremy has also admitted the farm has got a poorly donkey to add to their worries.

Speaking on the My Week in Cars podcast Jeremy opened up about the situation on Diddly Squat. He said: “There is no script to this TV show, people always go it’s staged but the pigs dying, Gerard’s cancer – you can’t stage any of it.

"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.

"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."