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show lou, breaking electric reco. it's 1000 kilometers on one single battery charge, giving the mercedes vision e q, x x arrange unmatched by any of the e car on the road to achieve such high range is with an electric car. you of course, need to have a low air resistance transcending electric boundaries. switching from land to water in a converted am fi car with battery power. that is a good idea. and back on to land, a new dimension to e mobility. i thought, good bob, we got the rick shows making the welds an electric, clean, clean up place, probably provide the provider flip. we're refundable gone. well, also making it to safer and ferro, 150 by i get i found a lot,

a new standards of mobility. however, you get to where you're going time to go all electric right now on read. this is a very special prototype, the mercedes benz vision, e q x x a battery electric vehicle that was developed to achieve a range of 1000 kilometers on a single charge to prove that this isn't just marketing speak. mercedes decided to take it on a trip traveling from xander thing and himself, germany, where one of the biggest mercedes batteries is located across the swiss alps and northern italy to its destination of her c on the french cortez via the journey was undertaken at regular road speeds including fast lane cruising at up to 140 kilometers an hour on the german autobahn and near the speed limit. elsewhere. the

long distance drive was completed with a charging socket, sealed, and accompanied by an independent expert from german certification agency took upon completing the journey, the e q x s as battery was down to 15 percent with an estimated range of around 140 kilometers still available, but how is such a range even possible to achieve such high range is with an electric car. you of course need to have a low air resistance. and their car has a drag coefficient of 0.17, which is even better than the 0.2 they expected when they started developing the car on a regular long distance drive. a typical electric vehicle dedicates almost 2 thirds of its battery capacity to catching its way through the air ahead. there, of course, quite a lot of things need to take into account when building a cow with such low air resistance. one thing is the rims right here, they have no opening sold, the air can flow freely. and the other thing if,

for example, those tires, they have a very low rolling resistance. and that way you will also have lower consumption down. you have the battery of the e q, x x. now you would expect things to put in a big battery to achieve that 1000 kilometers, but they didn't. the battery itself has around 100 kilowatt hours of energy. and despite that, it is 30 percent lighter than the battery if you have in nowadays costs and even 50 percent smaller. they achieve this by working together with the guys over from formula e. and they expect such types of batteries to come into serious cost 520242025 . reassuring here is something that we're going to see in series production in about 2 to 3 years from now. so in the next generation, for example, of compact cars,

we're going to see exactly this battery. and this e drive moto, so in real serious production, the more important factor for the range is of course, the consumption and mercy. this managed to bring it down to below 10 kilowatt hours per 100 kilometer. and that's a very good figure if you consider that the average electric call is somewhere around 1520 kilowatt hours, 10 kilowatt hours. it's really good. i mean, what can you do with 10 kilowatt hours? for example, you could have 3 minutes of light in a football stadium. or you could watch 100 hours on your 50 inch lcd tv at home. with exactly a point 7 kilowatt hours on the prototype, set a new benchmark on the roof of the original prototype. there are solar panels that will provide energy for an additional 25 kilometers, which i think is a really cool idea. e q x x has more to offer than just incredible consumption and

range. the interior also holds some surprises. so we see a huge screen here, 48 inch screen seamless screen. it's not pieces of screens is one seamless screen from pillar to pillar. even loaded with a game engine, which we know aldo for gaming industry, which is not implemented, for example here, navigation, which will lead to a whole new experience. world of a driver with an 8 k resolution. the thin life way many ellie de display can perform seamless zoom and scroll functions. it can go from satellite perspective to as close as 10 meters in the 3 d sissy being. of course, the can also show the driver a detailed visual representation of their energy consumption. my tie would be e q, x x is over and i really like the call. it's cool that mercedes does such projects

because the technology that they develop will then some day come into serious production cost and that way everyone will profit from it. let's talk aerodynamics reduction of just 0.01 and drag coefficient ads around 2.5 percent to the range of an electric car. the drag coefficient on modern cars ranges between 0.25 and 0.40. but with the vision you q x x, mercedes as managed to build a color that is more aerodynamic than an american football. now that's something how about diving into an automotive weld free of conventional boundaries? like group as the one that you had a good sailor. never get seasick gun, the gun. that's a special feeling of just being able to drive off the road and into the water. it's

a very special kind of freedom is on the sides. and one that means unadulterated enjoyment of your surroundings. idea, but it, it goes up all i hear with an electric f, a car or the propeller said a little bit of drive train noise. distant voice is leaking over when the buzz you get when you drive back out or can then you just carry on driving. i thought i had a dream come true out the car. it really is such a freedom without limits with i'm because we're me the amp. a car symbolizes a cool, easy going party. feeling on the water with the girls and the champagne that made

it kind of office or when you can relax and just let yourself go. and it does indeed look like a very relaxing, right. that's thankful. so to mathias gone to having converted the amphibious car to electric power. oh and there's no engine rattle and none of the stench either you wish and you certainly get a more intense feel for the nature of the intern from it. the empty car is, as the name suggests, an amphibious vehicle equally at home on land or on the water. it's powered by a 41 horse power gasoline engine. the original model was unveiled to the german public at the 1963 international my to show in frankfort uses home and fuels. namely, smith, once i'm all to him, i'm bite of us element. most of the m f. e. com is the 1st and to date only math

used vehicle of its kind. its makers in west germany built around 3800 units between 196160 8 hands triple. the maverick constructor designed at head sold for just over 10000 deutsch. marks around $5000.00 heroes in today's money, making it twice the price of a vw bug. this is, this is the original sales brochure about old school marketing. yet, here's someone plunging into a river or lay order in for us. ah, i is this together. the 19 sixty's were a decade of major change when a new generation was making its presence felt and started. there was also a new kind of music. think of the flower power era in the us really plus the beatles. a beatles come the war. oh, i was and it said this, oh, there was a new upbeat mood back then for me. the and

a car symbolizes a cool, easy going party, feeling to a sold noses. and there was even a mobile home to go with it. got caught this issue and, and some people went all the way to italy in it. i imagine crossing the brenner pass in this 41 horsepower car and then having an amphibious mobile home. and when on doesn't you really had to be some kind of romanticism to do something like that is like, what was of us? what am mathias santa is a hotelier in top and tabula by the mosul river in western germany. and is also an avid collector, and because in 2017 he converted his hotels to green palla. that same year, the e cap mobility company was tossed with converting the gasoline pallet empty car into an electric model. there were 2, it was called that oh 1st they took out the engine of wood which then became a backup for a different car. it was for an over here or is the electric handler, carsten burn electron to close it. up here we have the battery box

se, but of he kirsten below them as the electric motor on which was blanched onto the old trails measure in and it's it's not like the tesla woods where you set it to drive his law and then just accelerate and break i meant of the offer, you do have to shift gears with this car. so no one was here in the thought. don't shut demons. it's if you drive at a reasonable pace and crews, instead of going at full throttle of to bus, it will keep going for 8 hours on the water on of of that was the batteries are really heavy, eddie, but so it lies a little lower in the water than the regular at the car, because the motor weighs more than the old engine for here. in order to re balance the weight distribution with the fuel tank now gone, the experts added an extra battery block to shower 1st. almost 70 years later we have this box which houses the battery. so the button, this is where you access the socket. you but you more than just like with any modern electric car. so going for the stick. those

with the electric addition is a bit quicker out of the blocks than it's gasoline powered. oh, the cousin, but it's top speed is a good 20 kilometers per hour. slower. but still cruising along as a 100 clicks in this convertible is fast enough. it is advertised i misplaced is adrienne, the car is a poor car and a poor boat called me not so not by the but the 2 combined makes it really special . it is on either upon the road. it does rock about quite a bit. sure. i had to do to the high white wall tires shipped and that's a good sailor. never get seasick. everybody that knew i'd say exactly what the amcom most definitely is, is a loss, have fun fitness level. if i just love being able to drive strength from the road into the water,

it really is such a random without limits. how are ya time to make the car see worthy is roha? as with any boat, the life belt has to be stowed within, easy reach, hit old times. and you also need to install extra like this. i mean, and it's just licensed as both the car and as a boat, it's put on boats need a rear navigation line so that other vessels can tell whether you're ahead or behind them at night. they're less than or is for him been order in the in been and there's a navigation line at the front to pose. it's owns the headlamp all are redundant now of course frozen below. so and a proper cheque also includes the fog horn, the dish, oak the board, super easy and don't forget those rubber seals either. one

is that a good book notes? why it has just these 2 rubber strips that pressed together and using this lever to susan, and that guarantees are 100 percent watertight nuggets with didn't when this guarantee and the doors the water line nissan was you about here. see a bus home with here. ah, that matches. and the am fi car is now see was a so it gets dozens, vasa, it's one. we hit the water and i need to turn on the ignition popella. i get the 2 propellers going and then get into gear when my gun and we're off. it's those mid level now drive into the water and julia touch on the get. the propellers are already turned on. fixing god's will be less than his right and we're afloat yet. swivel now, just disengaged the gears so that the wheels are stop turning the date on this been within

uses clyde the board so. so i don't need a rudder with this little boat and all the steering as by the front wheel just front of it. that's why the white will tires are a bit higher. the higher the wheels are, the easier it makes. the thing to steer, store young people have always dreamed of overcoming the boundaries between the elements and the comp production ceased in the 19 sixty's because the complex construction miss til expensive and sales never got off the grounds that ganja is confident. the electric edition could give amphibious cause a new lease of life that covered itself. you know, you have more options these days life, you can definitely make it lighter that so that it needs less electricity and can go faster to i'm can all are on discover new. my didn't muted a and was someone had the guts to develop it and put it on the market at an affordable price. it back to black. and then i reckon it could be really successful

. the other place side, and even the end of a bite trip in the am fi car has its own special cells. so it's legged in there now. island gauge 1st here gave her the and really turn up the gas i did by now up and out by ramp up. well, it's, it'll get a bit bumpy. now the rear wheels and gauge that it had on the back, on god's earth, as it were of goodness at it and the buzz you get when you drive back out. i was far when it starts to shake and vibrate up by the white. and then you just carry on driving. it's just magic. but she has gone to her regularly traits, his hotel guests to excursions in his house because they certainly lend a whole new perspective to trips along the romantic, mazel river. the unique river trips and our highlights on his guests itinerary.

midden, elect, swampy car, what makes the electric and because i special is such it's a lot quieter than the gasoline version and repub fumey out find out you can take in a lot more of the surrounding hamstring. it's especially nice in the evening when the sun's going down as you're traveling across the water. yeah. yeah, i kind of, you can relax and then just let yourself go. so dizzy. le bowman, nothing. ah. the electric anthy car adds a new dimension to modern mobility. and is indisputably one of the coolest ways of getting from a to b. if you want more, riv, check out our youtube channel. if you want regular features about new cars and car

culture and about mobility around the world rep can make you very happy. ha, vintage classics and future tech or just some of the exciting content waiting for you. subscribe to us. if you tube slash d w rest. and you'll always be up to speed. indian cities like prior garage are no strangers to traffic jams in air pollution. 2 thirds of all air pollution related deaths in the country are result of diesel fumes. now, an electric ritual startup hopes to combat exactly this. i've been, i'm back up begging her when i drive. i feel a sense of freedom for bethany, how i'm cutting, and i don't like being cooked up in a house, e. m it in there. well,

if i used to think women should stay at home again that either had now i can't stay indoors for a single day. can i make didn't he read that they're being self employed affords. lolita been that freedom. 3 years ago, she was working 12 hour shifts in stone quarry and earning a pity. now she has her own electric ritual. she's her own boss. the city of prior garage, formerly known as a law hubbard, is located at the confluence of the ganges and the yamuna river. in the northern state of utah pradesh, it's home to some one and a half 1000000 people rallied his life changed when a social enterprise helped her to become financially independent. since 2015, the company s m v green solutions has reached out to people who are marginalized due to their gender cast or class. it offers to turn them into green

entrepreneurs. as a ritual owners and drivers don't live in glutter, my vehicle was finance, so i didn't have to make the down payment myself. ma'am, if i back it up, would you be roll up window that we could pay the loan back on our own convenience, an installments of just 2000 or $2500.00 re piece that way? i pay back the loan in full months. 15000 rupees, entitled hm. that's the equivalent of $200.00 euros. now, lolita is one of around $130.00 female e rickshaw drivers and who ta pradesh, who also own their vehicles. the rickshaw is provided by the social enterprise. come pre fitted with cameras and gps tracking systems that are connected to local police stations. operating in 5 cities and over 10 villages across the state. the taxi service also affords greater freedom to the

women who use it. is customary that out a little women will not move out at boa, monica dot boy hospital without a male member accompanying now they are comfortable sending the women with the women, but i was it half a 1000000 passengers feel safer when they see a woman driver. we also feel better about girls traveling alone. there's an urgent need for green, quick transport options in prior garage, for example, about 80 percent of all commercial vehicles or diesel rickshaws whose drivers don't always agree to take passengers on short city rides. the rituals offer an alternative public of either of they have many advantages. if they never refuse to take

passengers, andy rickshaws caused no pollution at all. that's not completely true. electric rickshaws light lolita has have 0 emissions keeping cities cleaner. but the battery production process emits greenhouse gases, and in india, 70 percent of the energy required to recharge the vehicles comes from coal. still, there clearly a step in the right direction. are every helix valuable? it will save full metric tons of carbon. but here, as a may sandwich age, you know, done by its competitive products like ha, i see in the diesel and petro lotto. and if you see with our customer base alone with 2500 people, we are selling more than 5000 metric tons of carbon body di rickshaws. make up less than 10 percent of india's auto industry. but s m v green solutions is optimistic. it's helped more than 2 and a half 1000 e. rickshaw drivers across little pradesh and parts of

b har become vehicle owners. the customers have a good return. ah, 2nd, the legal requirements are less saw. most of the, the fog permits free part. many states are now banning new registrations and permits for their diesel and patrol or doors in the city. yet for the time being only a few rickshaw drivers are switching from gas or diesel vehicles to electric ones have in and also paperwork appear to be the main reasons for their reluctance. what is happening introduced on market it. so there are fleet merchants who have a fleet of 10 or 5200 records are auto lodge. i am talking about you when i say indian record, and they're rented to the people on billy. hi, billy rental bases. it's very hard for all or for a customer or a person from

a my life community to deal with the, with the stakeholders in april system. so dealing with the vehicle manufactured of dealing with the ideal department, dealing with the insurance company, who from facilitating bank loans and insurance to helping with paperwork with the regional transport office and also offering smart battery swap systems. the social enterprise is trying to make it as attractive and easy as possible to become an e ritual driver. lolita and her husband mckendra are a modern couple. they defy child care duties for their son and take turns going to work. my hinder also drives that you richer for a living. he's always supported his wife in her work. but am i, when s m v green solutions told me that women were driving iraq shows these days. i checked with my husband. he said, yes indeed they were, and he asked me if i was interested in learning and that he would help me with

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