What we need to be doing is writing to our MPs and lobbying the government ourselves to make sure the infrastructure exists for society to adopt EVs en masse.

In the Victorian terraced streets I live in nobody has a drive or a garage; if everyone had an EV and wanted to charge at home the streets would be a nightmare of cables training from windows and make the pavements inaccessible to the differently abled, pushchairs and the elderly due to all the tripping hazards.

But the government is lobbied by oil companies to not fit the infrastructure to manage this or subsidies for companies that fit EV chargers at work. They might be everywhere in South Kensington but what about Aston or Hillsborough? In Britain a full charge will get most people to work and back for 3-4 days before needing a charge so we don’t need one per household plugs.