Seven reasons why the Tesla Model S is the greatest game changer in motoring for decades.

If you'd have asked me a month ago whether there were any hybrid or electric cars I'd recommend you buy, you'd have been greeted with a series of questions about your daily mileage, off-street parking, annual voyages to the in-laws and so on. And then I'd have said, "no". (Or, if I didn't like you, recommended a G-Wiz.)

Such is the pace of change in this industry, however, I have since driven two such vehicles that would improve the motoring lives of a great many people. The first was the Audi A3 e-tron, and the second this Tesla Model S, which is not only the most important car to arrive in the UK this year, but arguably the past 20 years.