It’s a joy to meet friends for lunch again, but sometimes it seems they haven’t noticed how the world has moved on in the last two years.

I was forced to point out how times were changing with one friend who said there was just nowhere to charge EVs. I had to insist that there were at least ten public chargers in the mile between our houses, in a very average corner of SE London.

Happily, the emerging indyustry met the challenge: in fact there were eleven. I also spotted some users who have their own supply, one (admittedly off the most direct route) that makes the most of existing street furniture – and one that is a warning that you can easily be tripped up if you don’t keep your eyes open for new industry