You see it regularly with EVs: the national grid will blow up, they’ll conk out on you, you won’t be able to drive to see Granny in Scotland at a moment’s notice, they'll catch fire, they’ll collapse car parks under their extra weight…

Public perception of electric cars has become particularly topical this week following the fire in a Luton Airport multi-storey car park. It started when a single car caught fire and the Twitter police had already decided it was an EV, as they seemingly catch fire more.