but if people have a right to learn the reality is this is their job just under the my how i see it and why my job because i tried to do it exactly the very thing my name is on it too and i work at it up you. a new c.e.o. is set to put to be a w. back into a pole position cam the production chief all about steps to bring the german automaker up to speed with this competition especially in the area of electric mobility. also coming up 50 years after the 1st moon landing the space agencies and a business joined forces to exploit the potential of asteroids we speak to a space science professor to find out more about space mining and. jones welcome to

the business now 1st german automaker b.m.w. and chinese online gaming giant 10 cent holdings are teaming up to launch a computing center in china that will help develop a self driving cars in the world's biggest autumn market the 2 companies made the announcement just today now this comes as b.m.w. promoted production chief all about sips to chief exits executive office the manufacturing expert is expected to help the german car maker should make the shift to electric and self driving cars and tackle new competition from technology giants . the new boss is a familiar face all of it sips is already a member of the executive board and was previously the head of production and he's got his work cut out for him he has to move faster especially in the development of electric vehicles. w. is behind di miller v.w.

and others when it comes to electric cars. they really need to get moving in electric and battery powered vehicles. but b.m.w. can hardly shoulder the enormous development costs alone by working together with its rival dimer which makes mercedes-benz it is to bring semi autonomous vehicles onto the market as quickly as possible then there is the risk of impending punitive tariffs in the u.s. in june b.m.w. opened a new plant in mexico the cars produced there are mostly destined for the u.s. market relation to mit we expect president trump will impose tariffs on the automotive industry in the autumn which will create a big problem for b.m.w. in america. the company hopes shifts in its global production network may allow it to partially compensate for any tariffs. of a more i'm joined by custom stock professor of strategic management at warwick business school in england good to have you with us now of that success seems to

have his work cut out for himself. from your point of he what's the most pressing issue he has to tackle. well yes turion and you're right the obvious that on the one hand he has to invest heavily in extra feet cation and automation which is an area b.m.w. knots that sleeth to kenya electric electrification were a 2013 they were the 1st major car producer who introduced to evie a coach so time to catch out there the 2nd crash is obviously the slowdown in the whole industry paired up with a threat character. that's a really tough place to be in and it's not for b.m.w. exclusively it's true of morris sprawl major car and uses and why all of the say is he the right man for the job. what is an advantage for him is that he's very strong on the production side and a seamless integration of sort of new approaches with production a is

a very important part to make the succeed unless you are strong views on a technology site to be hopefully be able to compensate with the strong team around him you know it's been just today it was china certainly a good one so you know we'll have to see it this is probably not he says his main strengths and just very briefly the announcement as i said was made and spot and back usa and not said b.m.w. at home in munich germany is that significant well i'd say it so it's an offer to the u.s. president to what pace. was very keen on sort of super bowl symbols them so that him being able to say hey we kind of bringing the german calming effect was in line now doing things in america you lights and it seems to be a very big role in his decision making i don't think it will necessarily change to some storms or for the companies doing

a symbolic it's still important because and sadly they have professor and warren business school thank you so much thank you. now this week we marked the 50th anniversary of the 1st moon landing the apollo 11 mission and those that followed allowed us to examine the make up of another celestial body 50 years later and with a growing appetite for all materials the race is on to find valuable meant minerals on the moon and beyond that. just days ago the japanese space probe high a booster to landed on the asteroid review grew over 300000000 kilometers from. its there to take samples from beneath the surface and bring them back home together with france and germany the japanese space agency and aims to find out what the asteroid is made of and if there might be any valuable role materials hidden within. consequence of them all the project is a world 1st with multi sampling to landings and

a collection of under surface samples will move through its or some folk with. the u.s. space agency nasa is also examining an asteroid with its so desirous rex probe it's taking samples of the rock to find out what it's made of and hopefully gain some insight into how the earth was formed. nasa has also been looking for rare resources on the moon for years the rocket crater moonscape could conceal valuable treasures metals such as gold platinum iridium and helium 3 gas have all been detected there now it's trying to figure out how to break down these raw materials and transport them to. a more i'm john by professor phil bland the director of curtin space science and technology center in perth australia which is down under far away from here good to have you with us a couple of years ago a space probe landed on a comet and now we're chasing asteroids to mine for minerals sounds like science

fiction how real is it. i think it's becoming much more relationally just over the last few years than i have a thought it would be interesting were on both. osiris rex missions it's great to be part of that. those who those private companies involved in this now and also in most major space agencies and what do we hope to find on an asteroid that we can't mine here on earth. well it's i mean there's a kind of a couple of flavors here to this we can find as you said the pace those heavy metals like iridium and and and and and ram you know platinum and things like that. but in a way it's kind of the support industries that we're interested in for those who need fuel and you need water and we can get that from places like ice

on the moon all right but the moon isn't right next door asteroid certainly aren't all that missions are very costly how big a business proposition is space mining then. i think so so nasa and chinese space agency easter all have a program to go back to the moon over the next few years. if you can get fuel and water there versus carrying it all the way it's a really big deal so in terms of you know you save a huge amount of money for every kilo you can find versus what you can bring in a so it's a huge support for those missions i know of course you i mean you mentioned it there's a lot of cooperation going on when it comes to space missions between nations like the united states and europe once you get there how do you determine the mining rights on an extraterrestrial object it's difficult enough here on earth.

that's an excellent question actually right now there are no mining rights so you can legally make money mining asteroids and bring back the worst if you use that material to make fuel i think that's ok but there's some very old treaties in there and those need to change before this becomes an industry all right professor phil bland the director of occurs in space science and technology center in perth australia thank you so much for your time and your insights. and also some of the other business stories making the news boeing is to spend almost $5000000000.00 compensating airlines that have been affected by the grounding of the 737 max the model was grounded in march after it was involved in 2 fatal crashes linked to 40 software boeing is due to announce its quarterly earnings next week.

colors golden is reportedly suing nissen and needs to be she for unfair dismissal of former boss of the rent only son lives to be shia lions was arrested in november and he faces multiple charges of financial misconduct which he denies is more civil claims the japanese carmakers did not provide enough evidence of the allegations against him. mobility is one of the buzzwords today people want to get from a to b. fast smoothly and increasingly environmentally friendly only recently electric scooters started to pop up on the streets of berlin mingling with cyclists and pedestrians the next big thing could be the e.u. rocket and electric pedal driven motorcycle. heads turn when this 2 wheeler whizzes by it's too fast for an e.p. but a motorcycle with pedals. the rocket is the

name of this electric motorcycle and it's also its mission it was developed in berlin and production models are set to hit the streets later this year without a throttle. i turn the pedals with my feet that's like the throttle here. but the pedals on connected directly to the rear wheel like on an e.p. . instead hits an electronic unit in the front that measures how fast the pedaling movement is and how hard and therefore what the desired speed is this is an intelligent pedal drive. the top speed is over 80 kilometers per hour and the battery lasts for a good 120 kilometers it can be recharged with a normal household socket in just 5 hours. the electric motorcycle sells for $12000.00 euros in germany and there's no noise or exhaust fumes immobility in

the game ability doesn't have to mean doing without it has to enrich our lives it has to be fun but most importantly we have to stop burning gasoline and that's coming from someone who's burned an awful lot of gasoline in his life but if we want to leave something clean for the next generation that means not using gasoline in any form it's over this is for life and to test software my hopes that more and more people will see things his way then the sight of a pedal powered motorbike may soon be nothing extraordinary. that is your business update here and it w. from me in the teens in berlin thanks goodness company.

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