Always important to remember in this debate: electrification of transport is not just about carbon and climate. It’s about public health, not to mention public sanity.

The filthy noisy combustion engine was never compatible with dense cities, which is where most people live these days. Anyone who has been to one of the few places in the world where urban transport has been completely electrified will testify to the difference it makes to be free of the internal combustion engine. It’s night and day.

Let’s not lose sight of the wood for the trees.