silk road. china wants to expand its influence with this trade network also in europe. china is promising its partners rich. but in europe there's a sharp morning never accept money from the new superpower it will become dependent on it china's gateway to europe. starts feb 19th on d w. it's once again time to take a look at a fully electric car the pole star to. we are living during the most extraordinary time in history. transportable before

the electric. minute that threat they are and mobility show. start to. what do you get when chinese electrical know how. automotive tradition. but it's a little bit like like like a roller coaster. what should electric cars sound like. and. that's fair. why are electrocutions cycles and alternatives to cars. if everybody let's drive this this is very small and the cars as so big for the street as a mass. and how do you make a tesla dance. time right now.

the pole star 2 could this be one of the most complete electric cars on the market right now. hello everybody and. it's once again time to take a look at a fully electric car the pollstar 2. pretty excited at the car looks good and has some really nice specs on paper and i'm wondering how these will turn out on the road. so the 1st thing you notice when you sit inside there is no start stop button that is confusing but the displaced got you covered break and then put your car in reverse or either indeed unless you can tell the car then powers up and you can start.

to feature a. battery 2 electric motor. $408.00 horsepower one at the front one at the rear. and that's why an impressive figure of. acceleration goes from 0 to 104.7 seconds. that's pretty sporty very nice of course driving. then there's the ring the pollstar 2 scores higher than many of the eevee limousines in the. range of $407.00 the according to the w l t p test procedure. and that's not only true for electric cars but for any car of their rearrange will be a. range of approximate the. 307 the

kilometer. especially for a city in urban traffic where the fees perform best. one of the best parts about the 2 is that it can go faster than most of the electric cars are there if you look at the competitors 16150 or 167 where they stop accelerating and the 2 can go 'd to 205 kilometers an hour which is pretty decent. pollstar is a joint venture between volvo a chinese firm who took over the swedish car company in 2010. the production facilities are in china with a lot of all those technical experience showing through in the design. so looking at the car the pollstar 2 is simply elegant much more so than a tesla model 3 for example. an optional performance package will add remove brakes 20 in shallow wheels and a high gloss black roof and gold accents to the come. the

pole star has a surprisingly large tailgate which makes it easier to transport large objects. that kind of makes up for the relatively small trunk space of 405 to 1095 liters. the car can charge up to $150.00 kilowatts that way filling the battery from 0 to 80 percent takes around 40 minutes. on the inside the pole star is quite roomy up front and in the back. so what i really like in the interior is this big display in the middle reminds of a tablet and the reason for there it is one of the 1st cars to feature infotainment system that has a google based operating system so you will use it just like you use your phone or tablet and hole so you can use google maps for their. gating let's say i'd want to

go to frankfurt it would tell me the distance of 176 kilometers and it will also tell me how much better recharge i will have when i arrive there now as you can see it. so i will not make it to frankfurt but it gives me the option to add a charging spot and then it will show me different charging possibilities alongside the route and it will also tell me what kind of charger there is so fast charger medium charger and what's even better it will tell me if those are free you have a play store where you can install quite a few apps most of them are for listening purposes you tube music spotify and so on anything you want for entertainment in your car furthermore you have 360 degree camera which is pretty important because if you look out real window is very small so he definitely need that. you have of course a lot of options that you can change for your car one pedal drive so if you take

your foot off the accelerator how much recuperation will there be standard low off usually they don't stand because recuperating is always good and you can also choose if you want your car to creep so if you take your foot off then should they stop completely or should it go at slow speed just like you know it from your regular combustion engine is high quality materials and excellent finishing you can tell the full sized games that the premium segment. if only the real window wasn't so pokey. driving the post to feel pretty good even though it's a rather heavy car it feels quite nimble of course battery at the bottom just like any other electric car though send off gravity be it's pretty good then of course exhilaration foreign aid horsepower. beats a little bit like like like a row. crazy. but pretty good anyway so what i

really like. you can change. right here. breaking any more. breaking and you need to keep that in mind but once you get used to that it's pretty and to move. the car i really enjoyed driving very much the only things i didn't like 3 or. so if you look at it from the outside. here that looks.

like. a lot of. the same problem the middle part of the steering wheel simply doesn't look good but. really really nice car. is a very good looking. at the front the infotainment system is easy to use and there are lots of options. on the downside there are some questionable design decisions. and a real window to small return question. is one of the most complete t.v. . electric

cars that make engine sounds when you step on the gas. electric vehicles are required by e.u. regulations to produce a sound the industry is working feverishly to make that happen b.m.w. has even hired the italian musician brains i.v. tell me to develop the right kind of sound. this additional i enjoy the silence it's great but what happens if for example i want to experience the emotions of driving when i suddenly accelerated by far of any. detail on a composer is a different sound collage for each model. he works on it just like with a piece of music for a concert hall. bunch while most of the policemen sometimes what i

do is just endlessly improvise i don't mind because when you improvise and you know this as a musician you don't have time to think. you just have time to feel a sense of. magic that's where the magic often happen so i consciously decided to bring that into the automobile industry as well because i thought there must be another way of giving sound to these machines and to keep to. each color has its own resonance and that inspires the unique sound of friends of attorneys compositions. i close my eyes and open up and i ask myself what would you sound like if you talked to me what would your voice be like. composing the sound for this electric prezza type was a unique experience he spent 5 days and nights at the hollywood studio of oscar

winning german film school composer hans zimmer who knows how important proper acoustics are. sound to 5 pounds the larger the gods the brochure that for character. the sound of the lights the soul everything right now we have a really exciting point shaping the start of the future. and this is how the b.m.w. vision next sounds. crazy to tell you the city lights concept goes all over europe with his music. his experience as a musician has been very helpful in the development of the electric vehicle sound and he's already looking forward to the day when there are no more cars with

combustion engines and streets become concert halls. the front side is the vehicles are our instruments and the drivers are the performers the phone or internet traffic is the most interesting sonic phenomenon of all. because when you listen to a beethoven symphony it's always the same but traffic is always different. the can as a musical instrument renzo vitali and his colleagues are making sure that driving a car will soon be an acoustic lee creative act. it's a riveting city. 35 years old. i grew up. in the beginning as i was starting doing that i was completely overwhelmed dreams from childhood come true so but like you stand on

this. and you think like you were gliding but even without effort this is like magic it's like wizard this is like brains so you can glide. where ever you. go up to like 506070 kilometers per hour it's a very very low energy consumption so the future is now. that's. this is what i. so why did i grew my hair is long oh is this is quite a long story. so i studied mechanical engineering my plans has been being a professional i was a key player then afterwards or was doing that thing with fresh snow engineer having my save money and all that stuff as i saw the electric unicycle the 1st time my my my head was exploding. so how is this freaking thing working right

so i knew ok now only if i do this i have. stuck to words like until the end of my life so there's enough to do. those on my devices for the events and for the coaching so today is a very important day where a lot of people want to ride and drive. this year is my storage room where i prepare and where i store my vehicle so this is my garish also my working bench there run about 15 unicycles 15 twin wheels and some segues and some have aborts and all self balancing vehicles i can make my business with ranting and with doing courses.

this is my usual morning program so that i can activate my body and the funny when saw system. it's a very nice practice. just send still. and drink a little bit of water by the time. really since still. well with those things i like cyborg and i've got 3 hands so. it's pretty good to

drive and ride with those. and if the police catch me i would get a fine. i have to use the car right now to get through the fields to get the course because i'm not allowed to drive the growth. on the streets so it's illegal. so we have to careful of the condition of unicycles so the advantage if everybody drives this this is very small and the cars are so big so the street is a mass it will be nice to have this free. have a smaller city no more cars on the street and just some little small vehicles. so my practice in the morning with electric unicycles and with.

normal unicycles and with skates so i started with electric unicycle to make some pirates. but to warm up a little bit. my father he wanted to always letting the ice skate so not not ice hockey but like figure skating i never did it. so we were always like that isaac you were always saying like all of the largest figure skaters they make only scratches in the eyes and so on but like with the electric unicycle it was nice too or just to generate and forget the sensitivity and so i could change to like to it's moved and to to practice pirates to practice handstand to practice all that stuff and to create some kind of figure skating on the back to create an electric unicycle. so the step from ice or

q 2 of the electric unicycle. is a nice it's a nice step. figure skating it's like a higher level off body control them and you can switch into another world which is pretty pretty cool. if you mix acrobatics through 3 weeks it looks like it's. really. this is totally fun to write. but. what it did to me in the last 7 years. i was allowed to or earn my money like from several different business cases over that but still was able to connect like to a lot of people. this is really we know each other since 2013.

and i mean i think of the union so this is the way we say hello. creating a foundation for electric unicycle so you think we can one of the fears and say one of the best things about this is like it's a great movie and fun and sports. participate in the ticket so it is something we want to change and become normal members of the day to the contagion. events is one of them enough to join up with the money community to endorse and leave it if you'd like. i'm fighting for the legalization of electric unicycles and all other life. so free rights for everything and better flow in the traffic for everyone.

these protests these rides these massive gatherings where lots of people just go right down the street with police escort and this time it's in berlin germany it's a revolution off transport and you can commute it's very very quick for it to be like with a car you can always carry it inside so it's safe you can combine it with every kind of transport it's very smart this is a big picture. and transport. i'm preparing a course to test that people are able to drive safely we did. test. doing tests to avoid obstacles with a sharp turn. and having

a braking test over there that we show that braking was possible safe. so we have to practice it like in a driving school. now we are testing if the electric unicycle is breaking as good as electric scooter which is allowed and legalized on the street yet so let's have a test let's have a try. so we try to really hard and we saw ok it's pretty comparable isn't breaking a little bit better and faster so all yeah i think we're ready to go on the streets legally it's pretty nice to have a. so if you are you're very very free to. to go where and however you want you know so you have like all the opportunities like

going for the front ward or back ward so it's a free floating system that's really very minimalistic free floating system which is very adaptive and very intuitive if you can ride it. this is yulia and we're doing 2nd lesson today so all to try to keep the wheel under control with only one lakh and we do like gas. that's not that easy and it's a long long process until this is just like inside of fuel. so from my experience as a coach i would say normal people need 10 to 20 hours of exercising until they can pass the test join the traffic safely. cold. we have a little rice and steward with some art playing an artist and celebrate that we

want to legalize the thing and have some fun. in the paper the. summary. is that you try. again and i know now. what it did to me or this electric company as a medium many many people i was allowed to get to know on many crazy situations just so she lies how to connect how to know how to do business how to just relax it's my life changed in the last 4 years and so i'm standing here with studies like your cycle for good. thing. and now one missed scene

and there's no way. to. the fish. it's a little musical gem that tesla holiday show. an easter egg hidden by tesla programmers in the software of the model x. . its only purpose to make the car dance. to activate the light show simply press the tesla team logo on the display. and church model x. miss as the access code and enjoy the show. but be careful the falcon wing doors move in time to the music so stand back.

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