multitasking see some modern methods because if we do too much, we paid it all wrong. we mess things up, risking brain damage. so let's stop this self sabotage humans and multitasking. watching our new to v w documentary the the how do you want to move towards the future? would you prefer to fly to work and head to the supermarket and an air taxi or to be catapulted through a hyper loop in a vacuum to racing at 1000 kilometers an hour? there countless ways we could move around sustainable traffic jams, air pollution,

noise, and overcrowding could be a thing of the past if we think outside the box and embrace novel ways of getting from point a to point be electric bikes already a good start. but in this episode, we will explore how we can bid farewell to heavy polluters. we will look at the battery powered trains of the future and silent trucks that could soon become the norm. welcome to made data of use business magazine. i'm not easy now. the trains are an excellent choice for climate friendly travel. at least that's the common perception. but more than half of all trains in europe are actually still powered by diesel. so they are much more environmentally friendly than cars. electric trains are much more sustainable, but those are expensive to build and not always practical. the solution europe 1st

battery power train the future of european regional transportation is already a reality in tuscany, italy. this is why i had taught cheese blues training runs powered by batteries. it's the normative projects because it's the 1st to try be trained in the world able to ride and on electrify section is led to trade, but also as a diesel ordered by 338. and the new blue strains are built in had taught cheese, bestowing a plant in northern it today they were also developed here with input from company headquarters in japan, engineer marco saki and these teams started planning during the pandemic. almost 40 trains of now been delivered to the q developing who was to mix it by 30 and the so uh so instead of uh, just to develop when it's done the decent train,

the introduction of the, of the box 30 together with the diesel was the somehow the is up to the technology, use the the some the allow to reduce the fuel consumption. the 2 batteries are fitted to each carriage compared to conventional diesel trains. 50 percent less fuel is consumed, the batteries can be recharged while the train runs. even the braking energy use used to this similar to an electric car and on the sections of truck, the ball electrified overhead lines provide the power diesel engines all still needed. but soon the trains will be able to run completely without fuel. in 2013, approximately 3000 new 3 in for about 3 or we the and hybrid solution we'd be uh, replace on the market. so we have a dissolution of a hybrid the we are developing the solution and ready in more than one year. so we did before about 30 trains,

so definitely deliveries and we believe that to be caesar very smart and safe to the needs of the market. the for the area where there is no way that they can gauge, especially in europe, rural areas and such as tuscany. there's a lot of overhead lines electrifying the ro network. it's expensive and it's not worth it in the country side. the small tuscan village of border go send out and so is about an hour away from florence. most of the trains here on noisy and t, but for a few months now, the new blues trains have been running here, which switch off the diesel engine when they enter and leave the stations. the passengers noticed the difference. m. o is the bad so the trains are totally different, more stable back. they make a very good impression in february when in fact, this train is much more comfortable and it's always on time. 20 times. so many

people in tuscany are also aware that the new trains are more environmentally friendly. just this full that a huge floods in the area due to climate change. we believe that in the medium term with about 3 is, are the best answer to the needs of the reduction of the pollution and the reduction of see what you we know that our competitors are for, we can go so now their solution so happy to for ease a solution like hydrogen, for instance, if we are studying these one in the, in jump on mainly ingesting a face, being the phase. one advantage of the batteries that can be installed into existing conventional trains and in the city trains will soon be using them to i will try to, to, to flight not only hitachi in tuscany, but also siemens in gemini, and us domain friends. a working flocked out on the new technology. it won't be

long before these. all similar trains can be seen all over year. a battery powered trains are one solution to the climate crisis. electric vehicles or another. they are the cars of the future. and china is one of the biggest markets for them. the german legacy car makers like volkswagen and bmw, are losing ground. their electric cars aren't as popular in china as local brands. it turns out that's simply a really good engineering isn't good enough for the cars of the future. this is how the german car industry presents itself on the chinese market for decades. a $1000000000.00 business for bmw vw, n mercedes, and the biggest car market in the world. manufacturers and china account for more than a 3rd of sales of combustion engine cars, lots of market is shrinking. china has a huge lead and the development of electric cars can sherman carmakers, still catch up. chinese automakers dominate the domestic market for eaves with

over 60 percent. the largest foreign manufacturers are general motors with a market share of around 9 percent and test with 7 percent followed by folks finding with just 3 percent. so many needs to reinvent itself in order to stay in competitive internationally and uh, it will not be the automotive production. germany cannot compete with oh, what china has invested. but the german carmakers are not ready to accept this. they have yet to give up the fight for a leading position in electro mobility. research and development centers are now being set up in china to make up for the technical backlog. the engineer is know how aims to advance the production of german factories in china. then germany, china has certainly become quite innovative and german comp make us want to tap

into that. they want to tap into a local know how when it comes to software development when it comes to battery development. volkswagen, mercedes and bmw are investing more than 5000000000 heroes to initiate cooperation . so if the chinese partners, although german brands are popular with chinese car buyers, they're not selling the biggest problem, the digitalization of vehicles. and they also need to catch up when it comes to autonomy, striving technologies, but it's not just in china. manufacturers and germany also have to invest heavily, for example, to expand battery production for electric cars. 50000000000 euros are to be spent by 2035. the strategy german carmakers must use the billions and profits from the combustion engine business to finance their technological development on the one hand and to wind down outdated production of the other.

the one company is german companies. past success probably depended on traditional gasoline cars. they're reluctant to leave the successful power service as a new company, we don't have such problems. we don't have to dispose of any legacy issues, so we can move forward more quickly. china is now the world's biggest car, ex border. it has overtaken japan and germany from the top spots. the chinese manufacturer is like b y d benefit from the fact that the entire value chain is in one hand from battery to car production. just as one of the most popular e v brands worldwide with a market share of around 18 percent followed by the chinese manufacturers b, y b and s a i c b, w is only in 4th place with over 7 percent followed by the chinese manufacturer.

keeley ball phone. ready german car manufacturers are focusing on the chinese market. the next few years will show whether that strategy works news, and now onto the make up polluters, trucks and europe. trucks are responsible for 2 thirds of c o. 2 emissions caused by traffic. but despite their great harm, sustainable alternatives are still few and far between. what's the best option for making trucking greener? let's have a look. i think of all this stuff you come into contact with and one day this stuff didn't come out of nowhere. in most cases and made a journey that cross city limits or even country borders and one leg of the trips,

luckily involved, one of these, you could call trucks, the backbone of commerce. unfortunately, the way they work right now is very unhealthy for the planet. our best bet is to make these 0 emissions. that means electric motors, they can be powered with 2 options. so you already know from the car industry, batteries and hydrogen. so which system will when the rates for the truck of the future? or do we need both if you talked about 0 emission structure just a few years ago, you might have been left out of the room. the word of any preconceived notions about what the batteries could do, what batteries were. so batteries are too expensive. battery server, heavy battery start to be. the idea was that the mass of batteries needed to power these big trucks would compromise how much cargo they could carry, transporting heavy loads would make the batteries run out mach journey. freight operators often have tied profit margins. time is money and they don't really want

to waste it on hours of charging. so the focus shifted to fuel cells. these devices essentially work like batteries that run on stored hydrogen and oxygen from the air that can produce enough electricity to power a truck. and they're only by product or heat and water. of course, it takes a lot of energy to produce pure hydrogen, so that it can be used as fuel. but even then a hydrogen truck produces up to 33 percent your emissions across its life cycle. then it's diesel counterpart, the savings are much greater if the hydrogen is produced with renewable energy. that's fairly happening. simply speaking, hydrogen trucks can reduce emissions without compromising carbo capacity or requiring long brakes. refueling a hydrogen truck, as long as the same, then the roof shooting you diesel truck. so at 1st sight, hydrogen fuel cells look like a slam dunk solution for trucks. but here's the thing. all these assumptions about

batteries are expensive or heavy already kind of outdated. what has happened in the past few years is let's say my batteries have become much cheaper very quickly and their energy density has improved. that means a truck can get much more range from the same size battery pack. the researchers are also working on megawatt charging systems for heavy duty trucks. the aim to reduce the charging time from several hours to little as 15 minutes. this would allow truck drivers to charge the vehicle during their mandated driving brake. what's one of the pendulum in favor of battery electric motors was high school investment? any of these like these? because when it comes to greener, passenger cars, most governments and producers are bidding on batteries as a whole kind of whole, emotive industry really, which is bringing down the cost of veterans, but only a small industry, relatively small number of players working on engineering of fuel cells and

a $100.00 and storage and audio delivery, battery power trucks also have the advantage that they're cheaper to operate than hydrogen trucks, because they're more efficient you'll see to power of fuel. so with green hydrogen, you need to turn electricity into a hydrogen transport that's refueling stations and pump it into a fuel cell which then turns it back into electricity. roughly 60 percent of energy is lost on the way. compare the to a fully electric truck. it needs energy to charge a battery, which then powers the motor only about 20 percent of lost. the fact that the battery electric trucks are cheaper to operate and makes a huge difference. it compensates for the investment upfront to buy the vehicle, which is high higher than for fuel cell trucks. so if you look at the total cost of ownership, the sum of all the expenses for vehicle across its life cycle, battery powered trucks come out looking pretty good. they could become even cheaper than diesel trucks before 2030. it can be powered by an electricity mix of fossil

fuels and renewables. that saves about 63 percent and emissions. they're powered with clean energy only that saves 92 percent. as battery technologies developed rapidly, the specs, the question is the race between electric and hydrogen trucks already over. and what does that mean? in most countries, battery power trucks still represent less than one percent of sales. a projection say they will make up a vast majority of the european market by 2050 and manufacturers like time learned folder for betting on hydrogen or not bidding on it instead of batteries. but in addition to batteries, hydrogen truck producers basically one another like to stand on their bedding. the battery powered trucks will never develop enough to carry extremely heavy loads across several thousands of kilometers. because more cargo requires more energy. when fresh hood is the weight, not the space to be transported, then we'd have an advantage for hydrogen trucks. at that point, opponents a,

that's a very nice application toward a whole separate system. are you going to make your, for your infrastructure, you're filling sections and everything available on a small proportion of trucking? so are there ways to make battery powered trucks more viable for very heavy cargo and long journeys? operators could swap out the battery packs, so instead of waiting to recharge them, that would probably require industry wide cooperation and battery swap system. so that brings us to our next point infrastructure. it needs to expand a lot for either technology if the emission trucks are to take over a hydrogen refueling stations are still extremely scares within pyre regions. and you're not having any at all when it comes to you. v charging there is more solid infrastructure in place for passenger cars, but the kind of high power charging the trucks need is almost completely missing. and the european union, that's where this law could come into play. it's that specific targets for members

states to deploy more charging and refueling stations in the coming years. so we see that the companies are now springing up to say, like, all right, we're going to cover the need because we see that these business will come right. because the regulatory decisions, the policy rates certainty for us to make us investment the same needs to happen, to spur manufacturers and to mass producing 0 emissions trucks. is that the moment not enough for being produced for fleet operators to make the switch so that you is looking to revise that c o 2 standards for trucks? while it does, we put an end to internal combustion engines. the proposal once new, heavy duty vehicles to mit 90 percent less by 2040 those battery and fuel cell trucks and you tackled their infrastructure and supplied. there is one challenge, specific to hydrogen trucks. and that's the price of fuel. or we need to commercialize the production of products. and currently when you're talking about read the hydrogen via producing hydrogen at

a very small scale. when you exhaust fuel production inside, you can bring costs down. so the following price of hydrogen is yet another may be in a long list of uncertainties. during this transition. it has to get all the stuff to us that we use every day without all those emission. some big questions still need to answering how much cheaper and smaller can batteries get? how fast can they be charged, and will there ever be enough green hydrogen? it looks like pure electric trucks are way ahead of hydrogen and the rates will deliver or future goods. but they're both bring us closer to the same finish line to reach our climate targets. but there could still be some surprises along the way and onto the next nobility revolution we've all been there before, stuck in traffic, many of us waste a lot of our precious time and traffic jams for the average driver in the united kingdom. so whopping 8 months throughout a lifetime. but what if that could be a thing of the past?

what if we could speak to the sky instead of sneaking through the street and wonder if we could be sustainable while doing so with flying taxes? what sounds like a dream might just become reality, a no need for a futuristic date range. these electric air condoms will start operating in new york city in 2025, joby aviation, and collaboration with delta airlines. justin built in electric air taxi. takes off and lands vertically, transitions wise on the wing id seats, a pilot and for passengers and flies and speeds and up to 200 miles an hour. the company's game changing. promise a 7 minute flight from manhattan to chance kate, for the price of a regular taxi. a trip that usually takes 30 to 60 minutes. new york city, mary eric adams wants to establish the world's 1st electric heliport hub in manhattan. it could push a quieter emissions, free urban mobility, the

we've been talking a lot about mobility, but of course that's not the only sector where change was happening. agriculture accounts for about one 3rd of all c o 2 emissions around the world. so it's a mass of contributor to climate change, but it's also one of the sectors that fuel the negative effect from a warming pond at the most and speed. for example, farmers are struggling with major water shortages. now, one region that has found an unconventional work around more plastic the heat and drought springs agriculture. it was once again, left high and dry this year. but this is also spain. it really rains here, but there is water and even plenty of tomatoes. why is that? we're not going to see and even the relatively dry conditions that we have in spain,

especially on the mediterranean. i think it's quite advantageous to grow through doing greenhouse esynthier, shall do. i left him another. oh dear, how awful? the classic reaction when it comes to the vast plastic landscapes of hell, maria, with well oranges, olives and greens, dried up elsewhere, vegetables for europe ro here, almost all year round. this region has always been dry, which is why farmers together with the engineers make the best of what little water they do have, including with the help of sensors and software. so the. busy maybe i guess what we achieve here in the greenhouse is, is a 20 to 30 percent water saving 20 percent less growth, eliza, on 30 percent less electricity. all doubt. all that then if your technology helps farmers on the whole region to be more sustainable, go might have got a sandwich on my so things in the greenhouse is farmers do everything they can to save water. this tomato grower, for example, doesn't use sensors or even soil. instead he puts the plants into

a substrate at them all. and now this way, we save 20 percent of the waters that we would otherwise have wasted plus compared to lines events and now directly through a frequently sunset could be any that's a big savings and which would i would. okay. cafe of the irrigated greenhouse. this is an idea from the 19 sixty's franco dictatorship in a region where hardly anything grew. thousands of families tried their luck on a single hector of land. it's done, it's slow pinado. his parents were among them, together with his wife on par. oh, he still runs his small family distance. green peppers are currently in demand. cc did i bobby the movie and we and we, it's a pretty good living. i'm the old. the green houses have improve the lives of atl, 90 percent of our marines and double depends on the day that i ended up getting ready prosperity and less water consumption to good reasons for the greenhouse is.

but so far, farmers have been growing more or less the same things. field vegetables such as medicine, broccoli have yet to thrive under cover. but there's one exception. this firm, which grows punctually under plastic, highly automated, with a closed water cycle. it seems 50 percent on water and fertilizer compared to growing the vegetables out doors and it's a little bit i'm off to a full full head. we have 3.2 heck to so yeah. if possible. and we have 9 harvest spaces, but yeah, i mean, in the field, they managed 2 or 3 phases on the same area. i broke up by this greenhouse is efficiency regardless of which bench the boat was being grown, is crucial to you by now. most be still going into the base at the building. the greenhouse is costs around a $150000.00 euros, but heck to those is not a whole bunch to both sides can recruit, but those costs for the cost,

the auto stuff still there are attempts to grow larger crime center plastic such as these baton is and these applies for scientists, this is just the start, i don't get any been a little and i think the better control of claremont, the conditions on those tests will ensure a better production on quality. that's why i believe that more profit will be made and therefore higher profitability. even if you feel the for the new one, scarce commodity is crucial for success under plastic water. even if you need less than you would growing food in a field, still growing more than $32000.00 heck there is worth of vegetables requires a lot of water. in this case, it comes from a seawater dissemination plant, which has to work 24 hours a day to out of the meanwhile, the other we see a lot of the development on production in the region would be unthinkable without. and this planned for it because the ground water at the pharmacy used to use

a salty and i was selling the fellow by expanding wind and solar power and stain more. more sea water may be the celebrated affordably and sustainable in the future . but that only works on the coast. if water prices rise overall greenhouse, this will also become more interesting outside of the l maria region. what are you? good. okay, and i think this model could develop almost everywhere around the mediterranean for many to find new. maria is a model both for spain and for farmers and other countries to counteract the drought countering changes with new technology, whether an agriculture or mobility. that's it from us. we hope this episode, fuels your appetite for the future. thanks for watching. take care. the

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