if you do this to. work to. get my. family from somalia around the world i want to. urge and assistance. family starts october and. now here's a shocker germany is an automotive titan and totally devoted to the automotive industry cars rule the roads and to a large extent of the economy people all over the world love german cars perhaps a bit less since the diesel gate scandal but in a city spends porsche and b.m.w.

still have cache and most of their models still run on gasoline or diesel but for how much longer the climate crisis demands we take action and demand for more environmentally friendly mobility is growing so what's the next move our topic today on made welcome now when you live in a city like berlin it's actually quite easy to get around town without a car i for one enjoy riding my bicycle to work so at mit italy it's more fun in summer than it is in winter and berlin could certainly do with more cycle friendly roads but it's still an appealing option we persuade it to one of our reporters on the show to try out a few alternative modes of transportation himself let's see how that worked out for him. believe it or not i am a german and i have sold my car although i can afford it this is my phone to be sure to fight climate change now i'm facing my personal entry into challenge.

but do the alternative forms of transport in my home city berlin make the great and can i still adopt it nearly 50. my family and i are planning a day trip taking the train you want to go to italy looking up the ticket prices on line i discover it's more expensive than taking the car the train leaves every 2 hours that's not good and it's. not called for trouble more on that later. for every day purposes i find myself renting in a lot for short distances it costs of 2 euros a trip but that does add up. during the last weeks i have been taking these very often best i mean all over the city.

and they move me from a to b. very fast and i have to admit sometimes i prefer to take busy. in school and walking. my friends keep telling me if you want to cut your costs use public transport and i do live in a very central location with good access to the metro overgrown trains bought honestly i'm not a fan of public transportation during the rush hour it's so crowded and sometimes it's so crowded that i can't get into the train there's no air conditioning so i don't like. still 4 hour day trip my family and i took the train. the day at the lake was super relaxing but the journey there and back certainly it wasn't. my kids are still talking about how full the trains were it was actually a double decker train but we ended up having to sit on the stairs. how

was the train ride for you not so nice and why not. because we didn't have any seats. or was a very uncomfortable. would you want to take that train again. it's so hard to follow you time to vent my frustration and talk to a traffic expert how to see thing germany is doing in the move away from conventional cars. the political will just doesn't seem to be there we hear declarations of intent but it's just rhetoric so far. why is that yeah that's because we're still fixated on the car and because most of the decision makers are car drivers and car found themselves. for years now we've invested far too little in the rail network we didn't change enough and now we're paying the price with

a rail service that's overburdened by construction work underway everywhere. it will take years now to build new rail tracks and buy a new trains but there's no way around it to fix i've had enough of over crowded trains i am going to try car sharing there are we have goals parked all over the city ready to be rented when ever you need one finding the car however is usually a challenge hello you're booking only starts when you enter your 4 digit pin code using the calculator in the glove compartment. i feel bad as i didn't want to use a car anymore and not surprisingly i get stuck in traffic. driving for 30 meters and i'm basically. 247000 kilometers of new roads have been built in germany since 994 cars through the whole country. living without my own car it's much

more complicated and difficult. cope than i expected to be the alternatives not working that well. i think i would resist not. cycling works best for me only 9 percent of german cycle to work i'm going with the whole 8. 100 unfortunately. i wonder how enthusiastic i'll be about this in winter. well i belong to that trend setting one percent and it went up there are even fewer of us on the roads which is actually nice especially when you take those e scooters into account today everywhere these days getting in the way of cyclists and pedestrians and often doing things they're not supposed to like riding double on one is scooter an absolute no go and while east glitters can be quite annoying

for cyclists they too are part of an electro mobility concept that aims to reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions there's still a hit show to battery powered vehicles aren't always 100 percent environmentally friendly and the distance they can go on one charge is still limited a big drawback for consumers but where there's a will there's a way right here are a few facts and figures. electric cars like me are still quite a rare sight there's only 5 and a half 1000000 of us worldwide that's just a tiny fraction of the estimated $1400000000.00 cars in total but the numbers are growing economies use raw materials mined in south america the democratic republic of congo and china these include lithium cobalt rare rare earths needed in our batteries that mitigate extracting and transporting these materials is an

environmental nightmare often carried out under inhumane conditions but there is a are abundant studies show that worldwide deposits of these materials could meet demand for years to come. one good thing about us is that we don't emit greenhouse gases although money fracturing us certainly does. not still have to be produced but my power train only has 200 parts as opposed to a combustion engines 1200. where my electricity comes from is another huge. fields. share of green energy is growing which definitely plays in my favor. as battery technology improves the range of economy is increasing. right now it's rarely more than 400 kilometers an often way less. finding

a charging station can also be an issue. as to our batteries 95 percent of them could be recycled in an environmentally friendly way but it's still not economically viable. but i recommend you sit back and relax it's surely only a matter of time today electric cars cost more than conventional models but that gap is closing the day of climate friendly affordable electric cars may be about to . so until that day how we have left to put up with big bulky and thirsty s.u.v.s clogging the streets of cities i'll never understand why any city dweller needs a loud and dirty tank to get the shopping done or pick up the kids from school but as we know the markets demand now that said demand seems to be changing in many parts of the world and if european comic as want

a share of the future spoils lead to better get a move on. the production of electric vehicles is moving full speed ahead in china with chinese firms like b a i c and b y g claiming their stake in a growing market. they already dominate the global market for electric vehicles china also has the highest number of registered t.v.'s on its roads. but for now conventional engines still dominate the market and here in germany it is no sign of any major transition in the car industry towards electric vehicles. kuttner is an economist. he's all too aware of the global challenges that germany's automobile industry is facing. you know. china is a leading car maker world right and a competitor for german manufacturers germany also exports a lot to china so it's a partner but when it comes to the move to electrum ability chinese companies will

probably be among the biggest rivals which could lead to disruption in the german car industry and fuel. the concept of destructive innovation is when a new market begins to just dropped an existing one the auto industry could face severe disruption resulting in massive job losses. german auto makers are still doing well around the globe and especially in the world's biggest car market china a significant percentage of their overall output is produced and sold in china all vehicles with combine. tonight engines what would happen if electric vehicles gained the upper hand and demand for these cars dwindles. because i was working on these new mobility concepts have a head start because they're developing the industry if the german automakers don't follow suit they won't grow in this area it will be the market that decides which one wins and the fear is that the german car companies could fall behind with human

thought and think that they have to get. the biggest manufacturer of electric cars worldwide is the u.s. company tesla. the chinese companies b y d n b a i see together dominate the global market followed by b.m.w. selectric division. comes in a lowly 10th position. german manufacturers of electric cars are struggling in the domestic market one reason is there are too few places to charge the cars france is schneider electric is a global leader in charging stations but sales in the german market pale compared to other european markets. when it comes to the infrastructure for electric charging other european markets are easier than the german market they simply don't have the same regulations the german market is particularly complicated for us.

right now there are only 5600000 electric cars in the world. that's a small fraction of the 1400000000 combustion engine cars around the planet. but the share of electric vehicles is growing rapidly. many countries have already decided which way they want to go. the registration of combustion engine car. as in cities in china and india will be back to 10 years time the us britain and france are not planning to follow until 2014 striking behind will be germany 2015. if nothing changes then most electric vehicles on german roads will be asian made german vehicle manufacturers risk falling behind the move to emo belittling. and

being overtaken by the competition. now that would be a pity considering the business opportunities in the electrical billet sector especially in booming emerging markets such as india the south asian subcontinent has a fast growing middle class looking to improve their standard of living and that includes owning cars a given the fact that india's megacities are among the worst polluted in the world it's time to switch from debt to clean mobility like the goal and up based electric scooter rental service. the bright yellow taxis and donvan crimes will tell you you are in kolkata no no university as the city of joy. but the city also faces major difficulties like lack

of public transport and traffic pollution. electric scooters could help reduce the burden of air pollution especially if. we get some research and found out that only 15 percent of india actually other drivers license so there was a majority of indians didn't have a license and that was the market that we wanted to we did a little bit more research and found out that electric scooters where the speed is capped at 25 kilometers an hour doesn't require a license to write and that was the aha moment. and that's when we decided that we want to start this company. founded his rental service and over 2 years ago with 60 scooters. he runs a feat of 85. the rental service. clients can pick up and drop off the scooters accept different points across called good on average a scooter is used by 3 to 4 right as

a day. all our school does have probably came on batteries so a time battery is green or about to be drained customers can go to any of the points and swap out the battery free of cost if a customer has any problem middle of the road we have roadside assistance and even there the wakil can be swapped if any problem is about to be filed. is perhaps one of the. lions have worked except to different garners of the city. taking a gap to the business hub of her and back used to cost between pre-funded and $400.00 rupees to 5 yards when she rents an electric for $45.00 rupees or less than $0.60 per hour she can hop cost i'm with a fully charged battery and she can go up to 60 kilometers. on the scooter i'm not only spending less money i also end up saving time.

i did was act i'm going to have several things to do in a day i intend to buy for the full day or on an hourly basis i invariably end up spending less than if i had to take a bus a cab on the tram. was is that come what they see me. corporate customers like this food delivered get even better rate a strategy which it is hoped will also raise the visibility of the. it is primarily aimed at younger stock the founders and college students. of thinking about. the course i don't really know how to go about it when i see my friends who are using their own bikes to do this job to spend a lot on maintenance so that's the biggest benefit to me that's going to. me like

it's them go out he would think that according to greenpeace and he has a still home to 15 of the 20 most polluted cities in the world with denny ranking as the world's most polluted capital. but white efforts are being made in delhi and it's never being areas the city of scrabbling with the rapidly rising pollution that. this city is known as the diesel capital of india over 60 percent of vehicles in calcutta august and even driven but it is hard for businesses to find investors for a mission free rental systems since this is an extremely new model bangs are on willing to finance it as the founders of expedience however devoted consider changing that approach. we really want to make sure that none of the vehicles buy you the air and you know as many people ask us would

we ever going to internal combustion scooters and we tell them no we might move to maybe higher speeds what does but they've been never that is that is the ethos of our band even never going to i think i.c.t. is compared to a 4 stroke engine and electric scooter has a much lower carbon footprint depending on how the electricity was generated but switching to immobility is also a technical challenge as there is still a lot of manufacturers of scooters and the batteries they need. start ups like didio may give you the necessary impulses to get those wheels rolling. just like in. people in cities all over the world are keen to lower their stress levels and get around easily and cheaply the north german city of hamburg is looking to be a trailblazer on this front it's becoming a small city using artificial intelligence and other digital technologies to

improve traffic flow and it wants to encourage people to use public transport more often here's how it works. as our cities grow increasingly congested with more and more people on the move governments have to come up with new solutions to improve traffic flow and these days their digital this software is helping hamburg to improve the coordination of its construction sites. we're very pleased we've had some astonishing results. the programmers very intuitive it's very similar to a smartphone or tablet that anyone can use it it's very on problematic i was seeing a big improvement in coordination it's years the software shows where a construction site is planned if it looks like it will cause snarl ups building work can be scheduled specifically or it can be bundled with other projects so as to minimize disruption to traffic. stopped.

in hamburg traffic lights are already digitally coordinated when in this simple bus approaches the lights automatically switch to green. the control center software keeps the rest of the traffic flowing. in the mornings there are lots more cars and motorbikes heading into the city as opposed to out of it so signals a program to optimize traffic in that direction as a wish i could just i think yes with a new start up to get. hammered as a pioneer in the field of smart mobility in 2021 the city will be hosting the intelligent transport systems world congress by then local authorities hope to further reduce the time people spend waiting in traffic. would be to go standard in the main focus is communication between traffic lights and cars signaling to motorists when lights are green before the green wave concept will be replaced by

a system providing information on traffic lights including across roads so that approaching cars don't have to stop and start on farms when. the. rail travel is one of the most dependable ways of avoiding traffic. the journey planning app is making it easier to get home from the train station it gives travelers access to bike and car sharing services. it's a good moment and i have an app for hamburg that shows what public transport options are available where the nearest car sharing station is the nearest underground station overground station and the distances between them. have been a person in sukhumvit and we want to create a platform where the entire process is seen today from leasing on to registering and paying. complex begun.

people in big cities not only need to be able to move around efficiently they have to share the city's public spaces at the hamburg hafen city university researchers have developed digital ma. models to analyze behavioral patterns such as where people tend to congregate. hop festival we research how public squares work we track people who are out walking their dogs shopping hanging out to see how public places function we collaborate with companies and other research institutes who also have an interest in public places working well and attracting people to know the things go to often. building contractors can see if their projects me criteria and compare potential sites in terms of advantages and disadvantages proximity to a research institute or an airport for example. in this way advances in digital

technology are giving city dwellers new opportunities to enhance the urban experience. and thus reducing the level of stress something we could probably all benefit from the stress can be caused by so many things noisy car engines traffic jams sirens all basically all the things that surround us city dwellers 247 so how to keep it together in our stressful world our resident guru recommends enjoying the calm and the beauty of the early morning. it's morning. that the day begins. i. know why he saw flying. along what a great feeling. the

city wakes up slowly. nish to things still quiet then. sorry not today i've got meetings non stop me when i need a taxi taxi but 1st another coffee and having no taxi seems ha ha i take the tram it's gotten so i think. this is much better. this in there sleeping longer would be one option or come off or just get up early. out of school this is the way to go.

and that's all for made this week for me and the team in berlin thanks for watching .

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