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There is a very obvious gap in what is available. You can get an electric car—a heavier version of what the car companies are selling at the moment. You can get an electric bicycle. What is in between? If you wander around the streets of London, you can find lots of electric transport that is in between, but it is all commercial. It is all with one driver up front and a box on the back, doing deliveries around London. These are sensibly sized vehicles, which are low speed, relatively low range and certainly low-cost. Why is there not a passenger equivalent of that—something like the tuk-tuks you see in India and elsewhere but, this being England, weatherproof? It is pretty useless to have one of those things where the driver is open to all the storms. Even in Eastbourne, the sunniest town in the UK, I would not care to try driving one of those. It is entirely possible to put doors and windows on a tuk-tuk; it is just the Government’s regulations that make it impossible. I am not blaming this Government for it, as the regulations have been in place for a long time.