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we are living during the most extraordinary time in history of transport. we'll go fully electric with rev b auto and mobility 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 ready to achieve such high ranges 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, i'm fi, car with battery power. that is a good idea. and back on to land, a new dimension to it mobility. i'm all good. bob gall. the

rick shows making the world an electrically clean up place, public of either of are done with lip. we're refundable gun while also making it a safer and ferro one rough ever ever argue like that. a little allotted 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 in south germany, where one of the biggest mercedes batteries is located across the swiss else and

northern italy to its destination of her c on the french caught as the of 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 charting sa could 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 cash its way through the air ahead. now, of course, quite

a lot of things need to take into account when building a cow with such low air resistance. one thing, if the rims right here, they have no opening soviet can flow freely. and the other thing if, for example, those tires, they have a very low rolling resistance. and that way you will all have lower consumption down here, 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 pass around 100 kilowatt hours of energy. and despite that it is 30 percent lighter than the battery. if you have nowadays cars and even 50 percent smaller, they achieved this by working together with the guys over from formula e. and they expect such types of batteries to come into series cost 520242025.

reassuring here is something that we're going to see in serious production in about 2 to 3 years from now. so in the next generation, for example, of compact cost, we're going to see exactly this battery and this e, dr. moto, so in real serious production i more important factor for the range is of course the consumption and receive, 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. that'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 point 7 kilowatt hours on offer 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. the e q x x has more to offer than just incredible consumption and range. the interior also holds some surprises where 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 lightweight mini ali di display can perform seamless zoom and scroll functions. it can go from satellite perspective to as close as 10 meters in the 3 d c being. of course, the can also show the driver

a detailed visual representation of their energy consumption. my time would be q x, x is over and i really liked the car. 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 in 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 e q, x x, mercedes, as managed to build a car that is more aerodynamic than an american football. now that's something

how about diving into an automotive wells, free of conventional boundaries, like group as the one with a good sailor, never get seasick unless 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 under the tides and one that means unadulterated enjoyments. have your surroundings. i didn't hear about it cuz all i hear with an electric f, a car, the propeller said a little bit of drive train noise. voice is clicking over then the buzz you get when you drive back out or can then you just carry on driving. identified ah, a dream come true out the car. it really is such a freedom without limits. yeah. me i'm

because before me the amp, a car symbolizes a cool, easy going party, feeling on the water with the girls and the champagne that made it a viscous pool. once you can relax and just let yourself go and it does indeed look like a very relaxing, right? that signs also, timothy has gone to having converted the amphibious car to electric power. oh and there's no engine rattle and none of the stench either gibberish 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, is powered by a 41 horse power celine engine. the original model was unveiled to the german

public at the 963 international mate, a show in frankfort. he's a home and funeral snitch mit on from o 2 in on both of us element it's most of the empty car was the 1st and to date only mass produced vehicle of its kind. it's makers in west germany built around 3800 units between 961 and 68 hands triple the maverick car constructor designed at itself for just over 10000 deutsch. marks around $5000.00 heroes in today's money, making it twice the price of a vw bug. so this is, this is the original sales brochure, mach old school marketing. yet, here's someone plunging into a river, only order in inflows. ah, i is this together, the 19th sixty's were a decade of major change. when a new generation was making its presence fell 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 wolf, i present it, said this, oh, there was a new upbeat mood back then. for me, the anto car symbolizes a cool, easy going party feeling to assault roses. and there was even a mobile home to go with it up cuts 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 . it was like that observed the modern matea santa is a hotelier in top and tabitha by the mosul river in western germany. and is also an avid collector of africans. 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 muddle. there were 2 or was called that. oh 1st they took out the

engine of wooded which then became a backup for a different car. and i was fucking over here or is the electric handler, carsten burn electron because it as well. here we have the battery boxes she but as he kissed below them as the electric mo hm, which was blanched onto the old trails measure in this. and it's, it's not like the tesla were to where you set it to drive his law and then just accelerate and break. i meant of it though, or far. you do have to shift gears with this car. so no one was here in the thought though. no shut demons. it's too if you drive at a reasonable pace and cruise instead of going at full throttle of to bus, it will keep going for 8 hours on the water. on top of that was the batteries are really heavy. 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 java formula

70 years later, we have this box which houses the battery city. but this is where you access the socket. 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 is. gasoline powered, alda cousin, but is top speed is a good 20 kilometers per hour. slower. but still cruising along at a 100 clicks in this convertible is fast enough. it is advertised i misplaced is, audrey and the car is a poor car, and a poor boat called me not soon. i was by them, but the 2 combined makes it really special. i'd be in on that either on the road. it does rock about quite a bit. heard ryan, due to the high white wall tires shipped and that's about a good sailor. never get seasick. i see him on that new. i'd see greg,

what the amcom most definitely is, is an us have fun with global i just love being able to drive straight from the road into the wall. it really is such a freedom without limits. yard time to make the car see worthy savannah. as with any boat, the life belt has to be stowed within, easy reach at old times. and you also need to install extra like this. i mean, and it's, it's licensed as both the car and as a boat at sport on boats need a rear navigation line so that other vessels can tell whether you're ahead or behind them at night. they're lighter than or is for him been order in the in been

and there's a navigation line at the front to oppose its owns the headlamp or redundant. now of course frozen below some and a proper check also includes the fog horn. that issue of 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 you pressed together and using this lever just isn't. and that you guarantees are 100 percent water, tight nuggets with didn't when this guarantee and the doors could just use the water line in the summer to about here. see a bus home with here. ah, that matches, and the am fi car is now see was a so it gets duncan's vasa, it's like we hit the water and i need to turn on the ignition po pillow. i get the 2 propellers going and then get into gear when my gun and i and, and we're off. it's those mit the val now drive into the water and just touch on

the get. the propellers are already turned on, fixing god will build in his ideas were afloat, yet simple. now just disengaged the gears so that the wheels are stopped turning it on this rim. it then uses clyde. it board so. so i don't need a rudder with this little boat and oh, the steering as fire, the front wheel, which is part of it and that's why the white wall tires are a bit higher. the higher the wheels are, the easier it makes. the thing to steer still young people have always dreamed of overcoming the boundaries between the elements and he comp, production ceased in the 960 because the complex construction was too 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, healthy lifestyle. you can definitely make it lighter so that it needs less

electricity and can go faster to i'm can all are on the government didn't muted to and what someone had the guts thought to develop it and put it on the market at an affordable price. we'd like to bring and then i reckon it could be really successful, the of hook eyesight and even the end of a bite trip in the m f. e car has its own special swells. so it's bigger than that. now i'll engage 1st year a bit and really turn up the gas. i did buy now up and out by the ramp as well. it's, it'll get a bit bumpy. now the rear wheels and gauge that i had of it and i fact on god's earth as it were of goodness, it is. so and the buzz you get when you drive back out. i was fog 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 regularly traits his hotel guests to excursions in his

house because they certainly lend a whole new perspective to trips along the romantic medicine river. ah, the unique river trips and our highlights on his guests itinerary met in electrical i'm because what makes the electric advocacy special is that it's a lot quieter than the gasoline version of the club. you me out find out. you can taken a lot more of the surrounding island. it's especially nice in the evening when the sun's going down as you're traveling across the water. yeah. yeah, i'm kind of, you can relax and just let yourself go. so dizzy 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 red, check out our youtube channel. if you want regular features about new cars and car culture and about mobility around the world, reb can make you very happy. ah, vintage classics and future tech or just some of the exciting content waiting for you. subscribe to us at youtube slash d w. read. and you will always be up to speed indian cities like prior garage are no strangers to traffic jams and 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 on but i

love begging her when i drive i in a sense of freedom. bethany how i'm cutting it. 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 stay indoors for a single day. i mean, i make any rash 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 p. c. b. 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 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 when you will be roll up window that we could pay the loan back on our own convenience in installments of just 2000 or 2500 rupees that way i paid back the loan in full months. $15000.00 rupees, entitled them. 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 station ah, operating in 5 cities and over 10 villages across the state. the taxi service also affords greater freedom to the women who used it is customary that out a little women will not move out at wal mart. okay, talk to a hospital without a mailman, but accompanying now they are comfortable sending the women with the women. but i was here, nothing passengers feel safer when they see a woman driver, but 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 offering alternative public of either 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 likely to 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. every he had it valuable fav full metric, bounce off carbon fiber ear as a may sandwiches. no, you know, done by if competitive for love life. ha. i see in these ellen patrol arkell, and if you see with the holiday customer base alone with 2500 people and we are

having more than 5000 metric tons of god, one body d 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 without pradesh and parts of b har become vehicle owners. that just a must have a good return. ah, 2nd, the legal requirements are less saw. most of the leaks or guard permit 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 had 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 off ben,

all 5200 rec choice or auto lodge. i am talking about you when i say indians reckon and they're rented, build up people on billy. hi, billy rental bases. it's very hard for up or for a customer or above them from my life community to deal with the various 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 paypal work 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 rich or driver. lolita and her husband mckendra are a modern couple. they divide child care duties for their son and take turns going to work. my andrew also drives you ritual 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 a ritual these days. i checked with my husband and he said yes indeed they were. and he asked me if i was interested in learning and that he would help me, but only if i wanted to them i told them instantly. yes, i want to dr minute. that's what i'm gonna be home with in for more innovation next time on ref. ah ah ah, with

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