Electric dreams: the future of cars - 13 June 2010 Cars are as much a symbol of status and identity as a means of getting from A to B. With the promise of real reductions in carbon emissions, urban air pollution and noise levels, the car's future is almost certainly electric. Bright spark engineer Roger Kemp FREng and psychologist Harry Witchel join electric car enthusiast Robert Llewellyn to explore the future of battery power and dispel the myth of the dawdling milk float.