It may be my imagination but there seems to be concerted effort from the media to discredit electric cars. It would come as a surprise to me if the mighty oil companies didn’t have some slight concern about their proliferation. Could there be some connection, do you think?

I’d like to express how pleased I am with my Nissan Leaf. It really is a wonderful car. My wife and I are retired, so it suits our lifestyle down to a tee. We paid about £10,000 less than the advertised list price for ours and it had done about 3500 miles. I know, even this is over the odds for a petrol model of similar calibre, but to my way of thinking, the difference in price is me paying for my fuel in advance. Can that be a bad thing with trouble looming in the Middle East?