Should you buy one?

Let’s wait and see, but it enters a highly competitive class, with the battle for the best small electric car really hotting up. It does rather hide its light under a bushel, because the BYD Atto 2 doesn’t look like much from the outside, but it performs well where it needs to.

Its best angle is probably the spec sheet, as its strongest suite is the punchy driver-assistance technology and infotainment system that comes as standard. It’s quick and genuinely innovative, which is all you could want. It’s surprisingly good to drive too, with predictable steering, good power and brakes that put significantly more expensive more EVs to shame.

The downsides are the poor charging, and the almost invisible styling BYD has pursued – this car must go against the Renault 5 E-Tech and Fiat Grande Panda, two cars you could recognise from a sketch.

First impressions then, are good, but we’ll know more when we test the UK spec car on UK roads.