The sooner people accept that sub-1000kg cars with 70-95bhp are the future, the better off we’ll be. Slower cars are both safer and use less electricity or gas. Better still, no cars at all; the only reason we have them is we think we “need stuff”.

I’m no luddite, I love technology and especially stuff like computers, cellphones and Formula 1. But I’m also a realist: the car and airplanes are dinosaurs waiting to die. Trying to make electric cars is just delaying the inevitable.