Would you take a look at this? It's just arrived with us from Motability. And before anyone starts furiously typing "you've missed a zero" in the comments... no. That's not a typo. This thing has covered just 300 miles from new. In fact, almost half of those were us driving it back from the Motability depot. So unless someone at Hyundai has been using it as an extremely comfortable garden ornament, this is about as close to buying a brand-new car as you can get... just without the brand-new price. And to be fair, it's a good-looking thing, isn't it? Hyundai have somehow managed to make it look modern and futuristic without going completely mad and making it resemble a kitchen appliance from the year 2047. Those full-width light bars front and rear give it a really crisp look, but thankfully they stopped just before someone suggested fitting laser cannons and gullwing doors. It's also one of those clever cars that doesn't really know what size it wants to be. Small enough that parking at Aldi doesn't become a full-contact sport, but inside it's surprisingly roomy. Plenty of space for passengers, kids, dogs, football kits, the weekly shop, or whatever other glamorous cargo adulthood throws at you. Equipment-wise, it's absolutely loaded. Climate control, radar cruise control that basically does half the driving for you on the motorway, a lovely widescreen reversing camera, front and rear parking sensors for those of us whose spatial awareness disappears the second there's an audience, built-in sat nav, Apple CarPlay... and almost certainly another dozen features you'll discover six months after buying it and proudly tell everyone about as though you invented them yourself. Now... we should probably deal with the elephant standing in the charging bay. Your mate. You know the one. He's never owned an electric car. Never driven one. But somehow he's become Britain's leading authority on them after watching three Facebook videos and overhearing Barry in the pub. "You'll never get anywhere." "They take three weeks to charge." "You'll end up stranded in a lay-by crying." Ignore him. I've been driving electric cars for over two years now and, hand on heart, I haven't once found myself crawling towards a charger with the air conditioning switched off, the radio muted and my bum cheeks clenched together like I'm trying to crack a walnut. It simply doesn't happen. This one will comfortably do somewhere around 250–300 miles on a charge depending on how you drive it. Which, let's be honest, is further than most people drive in several days. And chargers? They're everywhere now. Cheap slower chargers if you're parked up for a while. Faster ones while you're shopping or grabbing a coffee. And the ultra-rapid ones? By the time you've been to the loo, wandered into the services, somehow spent £8.50 on a packet of Percy Pigs and a drink you didn't need, your car's practically ready to go again. Honestly, EV ownership has turned out to be one of those things where everyone who doesn't do it seems to have very strong opinions about it... and everyone who actually does just quietly gets on with it. So if you fancy something that's effectively brand new, packed with kit, ridiculously economical to run and available without paying showroom money, this might just be the easiest decision you'll make all week.