We’re doing electric cars all wrong. Instead of great big heavy monsters that may, or may not, have a range of 200-plus miles and all the bells and whistles to satisfy a petrolhead, we should be thinking – make it smaller, lighter, slower.

Before you’re totally enraged, bear this in mind – I’m talking about cars for cities. If you live outside a city, by all means have a big electric car (if you’ve got a big electric budget). But I’m not convinced that most people who go on and on about range anxiety and not being able to drive from Penzance to Cambridge without struggling to find a charger ever really *do* want to drive all that way. It’s the idea of not being able to do it that gets them all worked up.

Me, I just want something to get to and from work, around the shops and into and out of the city centre (yes, I live in London). Which is why I’ve driven the same tiny, tinny electric vehicle for the last 15 years (you can read about it here).

The reality for anyone who does live in a built-up area is that the distances travelled are quite small and that the speed limit is likely to be 30mph or, increasingly, 20mph, so there’s new (or renewed for us early adopters) interest in the smaller end of the market. There’s real demand for such tiddlers, with a wait of six weeks from order for the Citroen Ami.