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lived here. electric carmaker tesla got off to a lightning start and quickly pulled ahead of the classic car brands the big automotive companies that exist today are either going to have to change dramatically or die this is the man who did it evolve must start in the silicon valley from a bet. he celebrated like a pop star his story is one of david against the goliath's of the car industry but what is behind tesla success. a man and a test of if you could look into a tesla factory which isn't that easy you'd find there's an awful lot of german know how. and in silicon valley itself we hear another story losses running into billions chaos in production and strong. stout employees your body kind of just

gives you an exact same thing for twelve hours a night. how long will tesla's lead last all the car makers are gearing up tesla's rivals in germany are playing their cards close to their chests how dangerous are they shocked opposition has passed in german companies are closing fast simple. college elmont has switched to tesla he drives one hundred percent electric. prices although i don't get in the car you close the door and it's like you're in another world you don't have any ambient noise anymore you don't hear the engine version of the cars very very relaxing to drive. and it's also good for the environment.

so what you get from what i used to drive a diesel because i cover a lot of kilometers it was it was why did you just have to stand behind a car like that unusual nose you know and then you know that it can't be good because we should believe in justice i mean of course we come. tesla's clean image gleaners but it cost money more than seventy thousand euros for the economy version of the s. model with auto pilot of course. the items we are going to muscle so i don't have to worry so much about the little things anymore slowing down keeping my distance accelerating again the car does it all by itself. it's more of a driving assistant autopilot would steer the car itself there have been some spectacular accidents and even tesla has issued warnings on all the time so you still got to pay attention to the road what it can't do is accept the motorway or things like that for all the work of. chi hellman drives a mission free through his hometown of laos on. ignatz he overlooks occasional

defects the non operational autopilot camera the jammed exterior mirror or the internet browser. you can see it up here normally this appetising should run through here but it's not working but you can find a lot of complaints about tesla's defects on the internet but just as much support as well. that's a handy use of no matter whether it's a mobile phone or a television or something like that but if you already assume it won't function one hundred percent that some of the smaller things won't work on. the neutral to making mistakes and making improvements that's tesla's principle the latest updates to its software are always available until now the achilles heel of all the cars has been the frequent need to stop and recharge tesla promises long range driving the ham on family is packing for summer holiday. that's not enough t. shirts. you have to take small as always i've got too much

i'll have another look at a minute. the headlines are off to italy for people and their dogs. a thousand kilometers all electric how are they going to manage that. tesla has made an object of desire but does the battle of tesla's david against the oil companies goliath ring true what goes on at the tesla factory on the edge of silicon valley. for a year we've been asking to visit and see the cars in production but we've never had a reply so we're going there anyway. our camera on the sidewalk alert security. they say no recordings or interviews and tell us to leave. behind the

factory test the workers are camping in the parking lot a remarkable picture by german standards. maybe talk to you from german television. nobody wants to talk to us here either then we get lucky. let's take a. couple are today. zachary hodges worked at tesla until he couldn't take the strain anymore how can i say he didn't want to put himself and his family's future at risk any longer he is the probably the reason why i decided to leave. so. he was growing is pregnant and right around the time i got hurt. at first zachary was totally

enthusiastic about the tesla story and eagerly joined in the company video shows the production line in the best light but he remembers the factory differently. everything here looks a lot brighter it's definitely looks cleaner than i when i read a number that. actually showed the road i worked on it was the one. that's the clear part right before that's the dirtiest section they're not surprised they were showing. me that hours that we were there we had to work is essentially twelve hour days every single day. most of the time it was seven days a week for six days a week usually worked on on saturdays sometimes we were i think the the max was like forty some days straight. there's a few more humans involved and they are showing.

at some point his body could no longer withstand the constant strain. repetitive work injuries as problems common thing in just your body kind of just gives up doing the exact same thing for twelve hours and. the health and safety authority has also recorded a whole series of accidents a tesla. the robotic arms can't reach everything so you have to manually drill holes in and you know and then pop rivets and and so the drill bits very sharp they die out in about two cars probably about a couple of minutes so i was told hours and i put my entire body weight. to drill holes into the car things like twenty one holes and a pop in. and then that actually that in actually what i think i was

just wiping a car down with a cough and then my arm gave out and my back. for months he was unable to work and even now he still needs physio therapy how does that fit in with tesla's own glossy story. elan musk mr tesla he stands in the limelight and sells the story of squeaky clean tesla putting the old car industry on notice. he knows how to present himself but he still refuses an interview. was. not. he has a huge fan base. is it justified.

we tracked down an old friend of his. own us growth today a deal resi heads the founder institute a business incubator for high tech companies he's known since his student days. i've known you on lost for twenty five years. arguably one of his best friends we actually started a. game a night club and our college house at the university of pennsylvania. and we use the proceeds from the night club to cover our living expenses high tech and entrepreneurial spirit and a desire to make a profit all this fall. on fertile ground near here we're going to send it over and over. most of the venture capital inside of america is

situated on sam hill. most startups fail but if they succeed it's mainly here in palo alto in silicon valley. so you'll see this sort of small core a little town and it's probably responsible for the vast majority of innovation crane around the world today google was started in a building just like that except right up ahead pay pal was started and another one of these buildings pay pal is the internet's financial giant a startup by young entrepreneurs elon musk was one of the co-founders musk and his colleagues sold it to e-bay for a billion and a half dollars. tesla it was originally also a start up set up by electric current juiciest so here on the first floor is the

cradle of the company. ilan musk brought millions from the pay pal sale and quickly took over the helm from founder martin aber hard. how did must manage to overtake the old car companies with a startup. based innovation consultant oliver guy now has a surprising answer tesla was significantly faster than the german car industry in developing a battery car but it still used their help he shows us what's in a tesla. sensor in brake management systems are made by bosch the entire air suspension comes from continent. steering gears are from to soften today known as robert bosch automotive and the door handles were developed with a company bowser called book. inside controls come from dime not and the sound

system from a young swabian company around forty suppliers have been installed including german suppliers for rear view and cosmetic mirrors. previously dimer generously supported the newcomer with capital and german know how it turns out tesla successful model strategy is an original either. interestingly tesla has adopted the classic automobile manufacturer strategy first of all start with premium technology in the higher google classes and only then gradually transferred to other vehicle classes on the principle tesla has done what the germans have been doing very successfully for a very long time and translated that into electro mobility. in contrast german car makers had switched their strategy for electric mobility competing with small but expensive. now mercedes and audi have also introduced larger electric off road vehicles and porsche is directly challenging tesla successful s model.

a meeting in an underground car park in barcelona. the new electric porsche the ty con is intended to overtake the tesla. the team test engineers from stood guard. their mission readiness for serious production. but as entrance pick us late as possible. the car's design is top secret inside and out. chief engineer robot maya always keeps an eye on the competition secretly all the car makers are feverish lee working on electric cars the competition for the future of the e-car is in full swing. we don't want to talk a lot about the styling of the vehicles interior yes lawyers so we won't show our

competitors a new ideas too early and get the go on to ford so i'm more invested old family. but just a few minutes later the electric porsche's cover is blown. the police pull it over while it's still in town and. other drivers also take photos of the newcomer the tesla challenger is already on the radar. but for porsche road testing is a must the electric tie conscient work in all situations even in the heat here that test is especially important for the batteries. as let's everyone knows that a laptop simply loses one time a competitive after a certain time of the year as we know this is because its batteries more frequently operate deny the very high or very low temperature ranges because they're not actively cold and heated or gets eaten our team is a little bit high it's you know. it's the same with the electric car batteries that

get too cold or too hot break down faster and have less power. and performance is portia's top priority. to call the shots you can accelerate the vanco from zero to one hundred ten times in a row with the value we specified and that will be a very good value as you can accelerate from zero to two hundred four times in a row without any loss of power at any point. you know that's a part of. the engineers that porsche are sure they can surpass the tesla and they also want to beat the americans in terms of quality. but they aren't there yet. i don't know when we've just had a startup probably one of our five fair causing our colleagues in our researching it there's an established procedure for this which we must now carry out of him but

it will only take a moment and then the car will be ready again. car fives running we're coming you know you felt good it's working we're leaving the car park and turning right so now the test can continue until. the fault was actually a stroke of luck for the swabian engineers because they want to find the faults before the customers do. unlike other brands that use a combustion engine body with an electric motor porsche has a new approach with an extra low position for the battery went dead or at least can see it very clearly when you drive into the curve is the low center of gravity makes the vehicle even more stable. and you drive around bends like on tracks of the ocean this combined with the acceleration typical of electric motors could probably leave most gas guzzlers behind but the engineers still have countless curves hundreds of thousands of kilometers and every imaginable test situation ahead of them.

in less than a year they want to be tesla in the sales room too even though the porsche is likely to. cost around twenty thousand euros more. the owner should be back in california a deal resi doesn't believe that the established european carmakers will have it so easy against tesla not with his friend elon musk at the top. elon musk in the third killer is very successful because he's a strong and near probably one of the strongest engineers that have ever lived and in addition to that he's very determined that. wackiness is the key to success here only if something is completely new almost revolutionary can it leave the established companies in the dust as with pay pal and tesla they have also shown

this with another project that they started together with. you on and i started working on space together in approximately two thousand and we worked on a company called life to mars for one year where we were trying to develop a mission to mars. that's how iran musk's other big company space x. came to be it's a private spaceflight company something that was once almost inconceivable and even less affordable space x. he took a small fortune and turned it into a large fortune so he and verted the paradigm. space x. now regularly shoot satellites into space. the tests are also good advertising for tesla. to cut costs must work covers the missiles which is new but his vision goes much further we need

to be a multi planetary species it is our manifest destiny at this point to have a sustainable ongoing. colony or civilization off planet and then if you look at the planets in our solar solar system there is literally one that makes sense and that's mars. but most has great plans on earth to the hyperloop is a high speed traffic network of tubes based on the same principle as the pneumatic tube in this case the pods will be self powered. most because. they followed the journey in the tube through a camera in the capsule. was. four

hundred sixty seven kilometers per hour a new record munich has won. the. german know how for elon musk and a handshake from the billionaire as a thank you. thank you welcome it to me was there with the children and watched with us richard with us there was actually quite spontaneous. the budding engineers admire the idiosyncratic company boss and imitate his way of working. with the deadlines and deadlines are very difficult to meet and we rarely do meet them we turn to finish later but this way of working forces virtually everyone to work at full tilt always doing as much as possible. in my movies future life so as to just buy this is a good example in the week before shipping it to electronics guys who programmed the whole control system slept eight hours and five days. in fog still.

barely achievable goals and constant pressure is that the must system. i'm stressed the entire thing out. just has experienced the permanent stress in the tesla factory. he got sick and feels abandoned. yeah they're blaming us for getting hurt knowing that they have basically where gas until we're almost dead every single day. and then blame it on us it was a victimization that i just it didn't sit right with me. it was it was a kind of terrible feeling to feel that way he's unwilling to believe the glowing tesla story anymore even though tesla says it took note of the situation and changed the workflow. you know when you first get in there they treat all excited they you're part of something and then you see how expendable you are as the

factory worker when you hear her. zachary's left tesla and he's not the only one. in a small village in the allegory region of southern bavaria we meet a man who dedicated himself to ilan musk body and soul. philip screwed it was the manager of tesla in germany. if the phone rang and you knew it was his number you sometimes got a bit nervous a lot of times were always very very short and there was always a lot of pressure. says the manager who is a self-confessed workaholic he commutes between locations worldwide and manages an eco power company without a fixed desk well why not. if you ask my fiance she'll say i'm always working

as long as my head still attached and i'm not sleeping and she was always how you define it. as i say that in a busy week with a lot of travelling i work ninety hours but otherwise i'm between seventy and eighty. at tesla he worked hard and learned a lot especially how important that story is not just the product. he's also the vision to say i'm attacking the automotive industry where it's very hard you know foretold to improve the world and to prove that it works with all my comparable i could still go bankrupt. could go bust i believe it really awakens remarkable sympathy among customers when someone really thinks ahead takes risks and then goes their own way. sure also drives a tesla as a company car in his new company the secret of tesla success in germany is quite clear to him the tesla fast charging stations on the edge of the motorways called

super charger which he helped to set up all over the country. without the super chargers we wouldn't have sold a single car in germany this is because germany is a nation of automobiles and people learn to drive long distances very quickly speeds on the motorway mean consumption is higher. that's how he beat the german car makers. all set for the holidays the hellman's are off to italy. when they bought their tesla the super charger network to convince them. one thousand kilometers under purely electric power with a camera on the roof. they have the smaller battery which has a range of about four hundred kilometers so they actually only have to recharge twice but the hammonds want to recharge in five shorter stops tesla recommends

that's about half an hour of forced break each time including at the put on a pos tanya hellman isn't bothered. you get used to it really quickly even the brakes you see it in you aren't getting any younger so it's quite good if you can stretch your legs every now and then i actually think it's good. in particular the hammonds want to drive clean thanks to hydro power they are still a rarity here in the mountains because an emo bio is only as clean as the electricity it's charging with. we made the mistake of driving on a saturday and that of course is a day when everybody is traveling we left at three o'clock in the morning and thought we might have that was behind us but it was it is. just a stop and go just stopping. the vehicles long range calms their nerves but the bigger the battery the worse it is for the environment. the battery

consumes a lot of electricity and reduces the climate advantage so it could still take a long time until the electric car overtakes the combustion engine in any environmental comparison. it's obvious that something like this makes headlines especially with tesla. another production problem. and. car battery today has materials that are minding countries that sometimes have questionable environmental standards and occupational safety. the batteries contain cobalt which mainly comes from the congo. and we mustn't forget that first these countries are also tightening their standards due to pressure from the car industry and on and second these materials are being used less and less on the. test one assumes that today's batteries use only a third of the cobalt used in the batteries it originally developed by digital video or by that is it's good. the headlines are hoping for further improvements in

environmental protection. they see their exhaust free electric car as a step towards clean driving and want to be part of it. even though with traffic jams and refueling stops it took them seventeen hours to cover the one thousand kilometers and they ended up pretty frazzled. obviously we were exhausted but we were given a great welcome with dinner on the terrace it was a bit cool that day but it was very nice to be received by the family there for the familiar and fun and. after the stopover they drive their tesla sports car to the riviera. this was. that was quite an adventure we weren't even aware of it in advance. this house was sort of in the prairie twenty to twenty five minutes down the switchback it was extremely narrow in places and partly on seals but somehow we got to the house even house on the common.

immediately grounded in the driveway and my husband had to move some rocks out of the way. the awesome because i didn't need to sit slow for sure. electricity filling stations or even fast charging stations are thin on the ground here but what else are the sockets in the house for. you can't plug it in at the same time as the dishwasher for example on spring. break sample when the dishwasher starts up it could blow the fuse so being in italy is still quite new thing. but nothing was going on overnight anyway so we plugged it in in the evening and i'm plugged it the next morning and then we had enough. with no time pressure it isn't a problem in the end they have a relaxed holiday with their e-car. whereas a tesla summer twenty eighteen is anything but relaxed the new small model three is supposed to conquer the mass market hundreds of thousands of customers have

preorder. but production is running much slower than planned and there are new problems in the factory all the time the lawn musk puts on a brave face and turns the first delivery into his own show. he jokes about the production problems. i mean if that is frankly we're going to be in production hell. welcome welcome. to russia. last year from the fans but zachary hodges actually went through tesla's production hell. he describes one incident. where one time we looked up and right across not supposed to be doing that and the robots got confused and i was on times we had to ship parts from germany were out for quite a while because the two hires collided themselves and smashed the two body parts

together and ripped off one of the arms so that was a crazy thing. cannot us but that's exactly what tesla has been having so much trouble with over the past few months programming that level of automation which assumes that hundreds of robots have to interact with each other so there's no trivial matter as. the solution to many of these problems will apparently come from cuomo on a global market leader in automation tesla also relies on made in germany in car and battery production. women and if you could look into a tesla factory which isn't that easy you'd find there's an awful lot of german know how involved on the one hand tesla's recruited real specialists partly from established car manufacturers and the other hand has taken a very close look at which suppliers from germany they can use. the americans bought up grow mon straight away after the take over the workforce in the region

protested that wages were too low. with the help of the game a tall union they have got largely what they wanted unlike in the united states. during a meeting where you want to was there one person had the. courage to say yeah we're all doing great are we going to get a union. and iran calmly said no there's some that we don't want to get later you know we still got to build and i was right now's not the time broken down money wise what would make sense you know he was very persuasive on that the person who asked that question we never saw again i'm not saying. and merely fire that was because of that but it was something that we were we felt from the people above us let's not talk. without trade unions must can put more pressure on the workers in the factory in the usa. are going to do

everything we possibly can to get you a car i soon as possible so we're going to work then i to do right by them by the oil today you're going to. in summer twenty eighteen months is hit with a perfect storm of not only his customers but also his shareholders are breathing down his neck. he says he take sleeping pills appears in a video podcast smoking a joint and fires off irritating messages threatening on twitter to sell tesla. the stock is on a roller coaster ride in the stock exchange supervisory authority has to intervene . but by the fall tesla returns some surprisingly positive figures. doesn't own him how do you have a headache the company has been making losses for years and no company can survive only making losses so the point comes when a company also makes a profit there have been enough times in recent years when tesla seemed to be on

the verge of bankruptcy and would have to be sold off it's remarkable but that wasn't the case because the loan must himself made fun of the fact that the company was on the verge of bankruptcy. personally i assume this is what they have in mind for the future simply because the tax not. he is now there the customer base is there the vehicles are now available in the mass market so that means the company will also have the opportunity to make profits in the coming years something that is sorely needed. back in stuttgart we can see that tesla is running out of time this is the new factory for the electric porsche type khan. for project manager stefan that by setting up production is just as important as the development of the electric car if. they can develop the most beautiful thing in the world but if they can't really produce at the necessary level of quality it doesn't make sense. with one hundred years of experience in car

manufacturing behind them the traditional brands are now aiming to catch up and play to their advantages not just in automation. we have a team with decades of experience in sports car construction and we will transfer this experience this quality into the type. of the priest series production of the electric porsche is so far top secret. the project manager and his chief engineer meet here regularly. they also want to be tesla in production not just on the road. they have solved many problems in the thai con by now but chief engineer won't rest. you know let's in the last phase before the pure starts of serious productions we are to a large extent dealing with software optimization systems in this instance today a very strongly networked space so it's really important that we can analyze and optimize diagnostic or error memory issues. that we've managed to do that even from

space. this isn't going to get off on it. but tesla still has a head start its network of fast chargers they took a long time for the german car industry to react. in the future the new consortium ion a t is supposed to make recharging as fast and convenient as with the tesla. the germans may be late but now they're faster. this vehicle is going to be the first to travel on eight hundred volts. that will cut the charging time almost in half i think it's the big game changer the tie com will be the first to use a charging capacity of almost three hundred kilowatts. faster charging faster driving faster construction is this the key to success. but perhaps the door between the german car manufacturers and tesla won't really be decisive at all

a player of the next generation is already appearing on the car horizon by to give previous fights on wheels we take an exclusive look into the workshop of the future . there's a lot of german know how here to. quote came from b.m.w. . what's the difference to b.m.w. . we're in silicon valley where you have to tackle issues right away and get things going then work out the next steps. sometimes spontaneous ideas like fixing my cameras or trying out algorithms are the most important things to do. as well as a case of on the hamas. quote is not the only one many in the bike management team come from german car companies the bosses with the biggest capital come from china here in silicon valley they can take advantage of young talent and the high pace of development if you look high school team because the really hot topics and appear

on the table or three or four of us make the decisions i don't think it's not a big committee or senior executives we simply bring together people who can contribute so the decisions are made here even sensitive topics of interest. they're completely rethinking the electric car. what are you doing right now at the moment we're looking at the instrumentalists nation the different camera views that the vehicle makes available to the driver and follows from that. it's about autonomous driving with lots of entertainment so the front seats here can soon be turned to face backwards as well as they go and i understood this concept one important concept they were tackling it biting is the lounge theme. i like to call this the moving living room it's not just about driving dynamics it's about developing a good sense of space so i don't drive a sports car i actually drive a vehicle that allows me to feel comfortable it's about perceptions of this whole issue of user experience and i think what's clearly changing even with traditional

vehicles is that driving alone is no longer the only point i'd just. go around was previously with tesla. for him bitin is one step further in technology and in dealing with employees. tough as it think you have to go i felt it was top down management although of course that could also have to do with the situation in many places when i think it does and i don't think that's something i misled by it's a good thing we don't have it thus. the chinese donors want to develop the car as a mobile living room or an improved electronic games room they come from the consumer electronics industry and want to move a lot of units made in china. tesla is no longer a hunter here but the hunted the lot must friend admits tesla is an old company right now that the difference that they differ a lot of it stuff is

a little bit and equated but they are keeping abreast with trends. tesla is not the only solution for the hammond family either tanya hellman is looking for an electric replacement for her v.w. golf station wagon. but the tesla model s. is too big and too expensive for the city and the new smaller model three does not convince the couple either. is here so if no decision at that a new car has been made because the optimum that i envisage is not yet on the market. they prefer to wait because new tempting offers are emerging. but i see it says the price including batteries between sixteen and twenty thousand euros this is the sort of deal people will go for for the simple.

whether new or established car brands the emo bile is becoming cheaper better and more versatile worldwide the times when tesla could just pull ahead of traditional car brands are over. get something and we have a very exciting race and i'm curious how this neck and neck race will be judged in four or five years i'm confident that by then the germans will be quite far had heard from to me by phone otherwise i mean. in the end iran musk's tesla will soon be just one of many. in the.

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