And, you know, i could really hear the vulnerability in her voice because my mum really feared death. Hello. Was it an announcement to which there was less than meets the eye . A ban on petrol and diesel cars to come into effect in 2040. It was designed as an answer to what you do about air quality, polluted by diesel fumes. As fumes are Killing Thousands of people a year now, 2040 is probably not the answer. Some think it is actually a distraction from the immediate problem. But there were other measures, too, and well discuss those shortly. And there is a sense that regardless of what government says, we may be in the latter days of oil driven cars. Assuming we can work out where we get all the electricity to Power Electric cars from. Our Technology Editor David Grossman has been looking at the prospects for Motor Transport and the air we breathe. This is what is done for Electric Cars up to now, the convenience of pumping 400 miles of range into a car in minutes at any one of 8500 S