James May is getting a chance to prove his love ... "At the beginning of the 20th century, electric car outsold petrol-powered cars in parts of America. They were clean, quiet and didn't make ...

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James says he doesn’t believe that “the dream of [fully] autonomous cars” is that close. So, for the programme, he got to road test his theory in two electric, driverless vehicles.