all over the world are in a race against time. they are peers and rivals with one daring goal to outsmart nature. more life starts may 28th on d w. i am charlie martin. i am happy to be the fest trans driver at the 24 hours of lamar . we are living during the most extraordinary time. history of transport will go for the electric with red. the auto ability showed blue, overcoming obstacles. even if something is possible,

you give it a guy, you get 100 percent, rather than talk yourself out of it. connecting opposites. $220.00 kilowatts is enough to have some fun every once in a while, but not to consume too much power. on the other hand, county id 5 transform b w into the most sought after sustainable mobility, brant, i'm cold problem. it will get shortly. and you spoke korea, i never thought in my wildest dreams, i could stand on the podium at the moment, a note to me, but real me, limits destroyed. nobility revolutionized all in this unmissable episode of ref.

the most desirable brand in sustainable mobility, this is what b w plans to become in the next years today, we take a look at the new id 5 to see whether it will help me w, achieve that ambitious goal. let's ref, check the id 5 made the practice to can pay version of the id for that. it also comes with the latest id, software, $3.00, optimized for operation, comfort, and charting. the 1st thing we should talk about is what is sustainable mobility. of course, this hairs are a wide variety of different aspects. so for the sake of time, we're just going to break it down to the most basic ideas. number one is the idea that the vehicle should not produce more emissions than the ecosystem can regenerate. a battery electric vehicle starts with a rather high amount of c o 2 a during the production a combustion engine car, on the other hand, will start with a comparatively low amount of c o 2. and then for each kilometer drives it will

slowly and steadily. clive the battery electric vehicle on the other hand will not emit any if you're too well driving, so it will stay on the same level. and at some point during its life cycle, the battery electric vehicle will be on the same level as the combustion engine. and from then on it will be the better vehicle for the environment and thus more sustainable. or of course, then you will also have to take into account. where does the electricity come from? was a made by renewable sources, then of course it will be good or was it maybe produced in some coal factory? then, of course, it is not another aspect of sustainable nathan is he is the recycled and recyclable materials. the

interior of the id 5 is free from animal product. just as all the other recent v w models, the 85 is left with the problem that it does not have any physical buttons in the interior. you have these touch points right here. they will give you a, an acoustic feed bag that's not the same. and the same goes for the climate control that's also touch. i'm not a friend of that. a problem in a lot of cars nowadays. the same here on the steering wheel. this is all basically touch operated if you're looking, for example, to adjust the temperature, you will have to look what you're doing because from not looking at it, you will not feel the difference whether you're on plus or minus. you will have to

look at it. that's why i prefer, for example, a turning up like you had it in the older ve w's or other cars that way you will instantly fear. click, click, click, once you change the temperature. ah. but apart from that, the infotainment system is such operates very smoothly and it does exactly what it should do. what i wanted to do it, of course, features all the latest technology, android, auto, apple, carplay, everything you could wish for. so apart from the knobs nothing you could complain about in the interior of the id 5. the space in the bag is definitely good. the seat is very far to the back. there is a lot of space at the front and i still have some space left back here. the head

room is quite good as well, especially if you consider that the co pay like roof line would make you think that he would miss out on some space. but even if i tilt my head left to right, i don't touch the roof with my hair. so i guess even if you're one meter 9095, you can sit right here without having to worry to hit your head on the roof. depending on the specification packets, the center c panels can be trimmed with aunt villa and microfiber that includes recycled materials such as plastic bottles. the article is chunk volume is rated at $549.00. liter is a 1561. with the backseat down, the 85 is available with different power towards ranging from 128 kilowatts to 220 kilowatts in the g t x version we're testing right now, the most powerful one,

the sporty. one. all of these have the same battery pack, 77 kilowatt hours of usable energy that provides the range of 519 kilometers for the smaller engines, and 400000000 people. the gts general driving impression in the id 5, g t. x is very sporty. of course it's still around the highest tv, but you have the heavy battery in the drawer off the car, which makes it hard to the asphalt. pretty good. and the acceleration with its $220.00 kilowatt is a blast as well. ah, of course they cannot compete, will cause like the c 40 recharge or let's say test last model. why? but i think 220 kilowatts easy enough to have some fun every once in a while, but not to consume too much power. on the other hand, i usually like to use google maps for my

navigation, but that would not be the ideal way in this car because it has some quite interesting features considering re charging the battery. so let's say i want to go to berlin, and it will tell me that some 720 kilometers and 2 stops. i need to make to recharge because they can see it at a charging stops. as you can tell, because i won't make it with one charge. and what's interesting about these, if you can see how long you will need to charge and how it will affect the battery . for example, 22 minutes of charging from 12 to 62 percent 22 minutes. that's. that's no problem at all. i mean, would not want to drive have non risk in one sitting. so you take a break anyway. and then why not cha, your call?

ah, the good thing about using that is that the car knows when the battery will be charged, though it can prepare the battery for being charge and then it would be an ideal state for charging, thus taking the maximum off energy in the least possible time. the $85.00 can be charged with up to $135.00 kilowatts, 10 more than the $84.00 with the oldest software. that means you can save up to 9 minutes while charging from 5 to 80 percent. let's quickly check out the boys control as we w glanced. this one has also gotten better alongside with some other things in the car. navigate to berlin, the jelly on cold

in front and it will get shortly. i have to say that works quite good, but i'm not exactly a friend of that. um, i prefer doing things like adjusting the temperature myself with buttons prices for the new id 5 in germany. start at around $46000.00 euros for the $128.00 kilowatt version. the 150 killer. what engine is about a 1000 more? and the d. d. x version we're testing will cost. you're on 53600 euros. if you compare that to kiosk e, v sakes, it is around the same amount. for the 1st time, the optional travel assist of his assistive lane changing on highway starting at 90 kilometers an hour. with progressive plans with memory function,

the vehicle is able to learn vigil parking the nieces and repeat them automatically at the price of a button in the ent, my final verdict on the u. v. w id 5, g t x, a very good looking car with some nice tech, a decent range and almost nothing that you can complain about. the price is okay as well. the only thing is it is rather big. so considering the idea of sustainable mobility, maybe a smaller car like the id 3 would be more helpful to keep the cities cleaner. because id fives, take more place than id threes. but as a shared ride for several people, it's a pretty darn solid car. the other five's updated software with partially autonomous driving and optimized charging was a good upgrade. on the downside,

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who is the point living? if you're not living, is you going up there with cheating there? charlie martin was convinced of the 1st that she was trans and didn't identify his meal. the gender she'd been assigned in both. the 2nd, the place she felt most at home was the race track. the 3rd that she'd never be able to reconcile these to world. i am charlie martin, i'm a professional racing driver. i'm in l g b t, t plus activist. i'm hoping to be the 1st trans driver at the 24 hours of lamar. i grew up feeling very limited because knowing that i was transgender from a young age, i never had any role models growing up. i'd never seen anyone like me doing anything the i spied today. and that had the effect of making me feel very limited in terms of my life options. it was like,

you have to choose between being the person you want to be doing things, career wise and so on and so on, that you want to have in your life. you can't have both those things. so i just, i didn't feel like his dreams reality. and a huge chasm between most he thinks his 2 outcomes carolyn, cause he was the 1st person that i discovered he was transgender. and i up until that point i didn't realize people could be born as one gender feel that they are i identifies as different janda and then they can actually physically transition and so on and so on. so when i saw her, it was like someone telling me to quote in flap, you know, i can really, it really eureka moment in my life. and i think back then that the,

the thinking was very much the if you avoid it feels abigail, you shouldn't want to climb trees and get dirty and tend your 5 pilot or racing called try if he should be playing with those and, and so on. and so on, i, this was not quite a kid when i was about a 1000000 years old, i had a friend container, and his dantes to race, not professionally, but you know, very competitively at club level. and he said, yeah, you know, we're going racing if you would come, i'd never actually been to race track and especially being in the paddock with all the cars, being surrounded by, by the car. it's a very kind of intoxicating smell, being in the environment, capital r and an interest in noise and do something about it. they just

yeah, just let a real spark of enthusiasm in me and then my brother and i went from them on for 3 years, running 2001 to 3. the 3 years that competed eventually one and that with yeah, i mean that was like, no thing i'd have seen her now. i really year to see i made up my mind. this is it, i'm going to try and do some, some racing myself. but the pleasure to 5 was like a half finished project. ro cage had a 16 valve engine, but that was, it was like, had 4 wheels. i had no doors on it. it was like, everything was stripped out of it. but it was something i could food. a 1st thing i did actually was a sprint, a cobra. nonetheless, i was there, p saying during motor sports on my own steam. and that was

a great feeling all coming in stop period. when i'm starting to struggle. very struggle with my my gender identity and i wake up in the morning and see myself in the mirror and i just realized, yeah, i don't, i don't even have any connection with the person staring back at me anymore. at nothing in my life really matter to me anymore, cuz it's just like, well, what's the point living? she's not living with you. i figured out how's gonna take my life and i couldn't, i, you know, i was at a point where i just couldn't even function. you know, i could barely get through the day. i slept breaking down. um and i thought myself, this is this wrong. i can't do this and that was january 2012

that i, i decided okay, this is it. i'm going to transition say transition was the thing that i wanted most in my life. and yet at the same time it was the scariest thing could imagine. it was this, you know, it was like this huge mountain. the i was terrified of confronting. and i looked at might sport and i just thought no one's gonna accept me in that space. i'd never seen any l t b teacher, pos visibility. and because that was such a happy place for me, i couldn't badly, i dared that being turned around and being space where i didn't feel welcome and i felt rejected. and so i just thought, well, i'd just give up, you know, i don't, i don't want this honeymoon. charlie's family and friends convinced her not to give up when dressing 9 months into her medical transition,

which involved hormone de placement had to be in surgery. she returned to her race track for the 1st time, wharton potter was like scary thing can imagine. i had sat in my car, remember, sat my car in the car park to thinking well, i'd have to do this. if i could just go home. no one f, a nice fortunately. 7 or 8 of my close friends i raced with came over. so many name can be because, you know, they were like, equally about racing next year. were to get see the. 1 life out, my gesture was a really profound thing. it made a massive impact. in fact, they hadn't done that. i wouldn't go back the next year, 2 years into the transition, charlie began attacking her motorsport goals with renewed vigor and a new found confidence. things began looking up in her career. i pans for probably the hardest part of that experience. and i started to find confidence and self

belief that i'd never 9 and my whole life. and i think that had a huge impact. no, just on racing, but on. so many levels on just how you think in function. i think a big part of me was kind of locked up inside that living in denial. what is living in denial. it's using physical energy to suppress a major part of your personality. a really intrinsic part of who you are as a person. when you do that, you're using physical entities. it's tiring. it's mentally keegan. it's like having a computer said it's really old and slow and you install a new operating system and it boots up and it's like from let's go do you in

a day where you like us. that's what it felt like to me. i went to fonts, i did it around the french hill climb championship and i 1.3 seconds and i burton close record by 2 seconds or something, which is how client turns is. it's like a lot. i mean, i just weather when it's, it's going to have experience. and i've, you, wilma surprised me included like where did that come from? charlie since may adapted progress switching to focusing and racking up podiums and a variety of cds. she even tied up would be m w, and made history as the 1st trans competitor at the no buggering, $24.00 finishing forth in class. but her burning ambition is to become the 1st transit thing driver at the 24 hours of lamar. so 2017 was my last year hill climbing and at the end of that year there was

a within the, within the team structure, there was the opportunity to do an endurance race in that call. i looked the callan derek. if i did, but it's the one race i looked on those one word that popped out on me the mon november 2017 thought. wow. 3 or endurance race in a prototype at the mom? of course, not the 24 hour cost is the beauty circuit, but nonetheless i never thought in my wife streams duyka stand on the podium at the mall and not just not just me, but real me. and i just remember thinking, which is, you know, if i can, if i can do this, i can get this fall. then that's like her. it's like a sign. it's like, and i him, it's like you've got

a clear train. you gotta keep going and try make this happen, and raised the 24 hours long for ill. whether i got on the podium or not another thing, in addition to her using ambitions, which includes competing in the 2022 lamborghini, supernatural feel cds. charlie is an l g, b t q plus activist. she uses her platform to fight for diversity and more dis, board and the word in this life i want to help other people find the happiness that i found. and, and i also want other people to understand the role they can play and facilitating more inclusive environments where everybody can be the true authentic self. people like charlie being in the media and just doing the thing in itself is just incredibly powerful because it shows people that you can actually, you can achieve anything despite all the obstacles they have to go through. i think,

you know, being racing drivers is difficult enough, let alone being a woman and being trans on top of that as well. so i know it's a very male dominated industry. so charlie's got a lot of things almost against turbo. so it's something that really makes charlie special when you're brave you, you take risks. sometimes it doesn't go to where you want, but, but more often than not, you know, like i cooked foster around the corner. i can, i can't say that that corner in 4th gear i can't acquiring 5th year you, you just continually push the boundaries, push your own limits of what's comfortable with what's achievable and before long you have built courage. you built resilience, you build something very young, very real inside. i think some of your charlie pretty surprised. i think 7 year charlie was pretty happy because i never imagined that things would be the way

they are now. so i think i feel like i've had to wait time had to quit patient assistant that i think even side right now is like a good time. so yeah, i think 7 year we would be be pretty happy lexus. get me a big part of it is deleting a possibility. yeah. even if something is possible you, you gave it a guy, you give the 100 percent rather than took yourself out of it. so i i always said this is impossible. i can't do this. this isn't for me. so i suddenly flip that around and you think okay, is possible and i've just proven i can do that will. what else connie dave with

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