Are you sceptical about whether electric cars will ever succeed?

Well, let Business Daily challenge your preconceptions.

I'm Justin Rowlett, and today we'll be asking whether the age of the internal combustion engine will soon be over.

Four years ago, I spoke to Elon Musk, the man who has done more than anyone else

to challenge the primacy of fossil fuel-powered vehicles.

I like working on technology that I think will have a positive effect on the world.

When we started SpaceX and Tesla in particular, I don't think either of them would succeed.

So is Mr. Musk on the cusp of spectacular success, or is this

pot-smoking, egotistical Twitter enthusiast about to crash and burn?

Right from the beginning. As soon as I saw the concept, I thought, that's for me.

Adrian Thurley is a pilot for Virgin Atlantic.

He's also a proud driver of a Tesla Model S electric vehicle.

Whoa.

Wow, yeah, that is past.

I was thrown back in my seat, it's so powerful.

So it's got performance, but also you can just double-click the order pilot's in, driving itself.

So it's now driving itself?

At the speed limit, I can watch all the mirrors, I can watch all that's going on around me,

without having to concentrate on keeping the car, smack in the middle of the lane lake because it does it itself. At the moment what you're describing is known as semi-autonomous driving. Yes. So you need to keep your hands on the wheel,

but the car basically can control itself. But Tesla has built in the cameras and radars and

stuff it needs in order to upgrade to a true self-driving vehicle. How do you feel about that being introduced? Would you be

happy to have a self-driving car? Well, most people are not terribly good drivers, but if all

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