john, my company is robin morton. i is up in the studio for lunch. i don't ever let anyone talk to you down the 77 percent. been 60 minutes on d, w. o live and on demand content, language courses, video and audio. any time anywhere. the d w media center the issue with existing batteries is that they saw they're really horrible. c we are living during the most extraordinary time in history of transport.

we'll go for the electric with ram, the little and mobility show way of experiences. neos ai system and battery swamping tech are state of the art. but just how good are they? no me just took over to car. she's gonna bark it in for you and the whole process from here on this for a thought. rev analyzes automotive battery swapping in all the rage. but is it a good or bad idea? so the way it's walkable batches to say, if the word or do we just need better batteries? read explores. this indian city is hoping people will swap out motorized, transportation for pedal power. can the idea,

john of man it's something i'll let them know if he's not one on that single appointment. i'll just take a look at that. other i'll be off isn't a chance to possibly opt out of it to look at them if not. but it's what does that gender and breath discovers meet the uni cycling world. record holder who swamped out 2 wheels for one coming up soon. all should be in the car, but also owned option vehicle, not the reason that i saw them, revolutionary, new tech, emerging green mobility solutions and tales of valor and victory. right now on wrap your boundary level is low. do you want to find a charging point nearby? and now we have 10 screwed laser guided that on through the battery from the

vehicle. we're going by 2025 to be present in 25 markets, both slides. so we have big on vision. neos founder and ceo, william lee had a vision for his cars. one that laid emphasis on digital technology, artificial intelligence, batteries swapping, and a tight knit community of neo buyers and fans. it's worked wonders in china neos home market. but lee has now set his sights on conquering europe, which is no way because it's an environmental friendly country. people's mindset this open we of course have the highest percentage of evie sold in europe and that is the sustainable cow. 398 percent of the energy comes from the renewable sources and we like that. and we will enter for new counter this year. so germany,

the netherland sweden and then grabs lewis. copper is an onslaught and check out the 1st ever neo battery swapping station outside of china is car than e o. d s 8. the 1st neo model in europe, you are boundary level is low. i think you should switch to eco mode. do you want to find a charging point nearby? louis can stay in the essay as the empty battery is replaced with a fully charged one. so just have to press start barking or swap station pocket and we're good to go. so now if you release the brick, yeah. then we're swap this normally takes over please you want your surroundings and do not press the guest pedal owned the cereal or open the dollar. i could put my hands away right now. oh totally. which is pretty funny. so it, you see that no me just took over to car, she is gonna park it in for you and,

and the whole process from here on this is fully on, on the swamp station does more than just replace your battery. so this car has an ulcer version of the station as identify that the car has and also for version it can update the car. ah, and then it's going to do to battery so. so we always have the latest software update when you get out of power switch system, ideally, and most people have their, their car connected at home until to why fi carpools in the data. also, if you don't have it connected, it pulls in the latest updates. but it also installs. yep. it for you. so you don't have to manually press the button and go to swap station does adult for you. if you f over to your software, you cannot change anything. we can just change the features and the buttons you have on the screen. but with the firmware over the air, we could choose to say, look, we want the air conditioning to work. when this help is happening,

we want the screens to work. when is what was happening? so those things we can rewrite ended the core code of the car and change the experience. because now you see screens are off. yeah, it could be the tweet rico to car and away that in an exile for version. it could be on neo swap stations also that you change the size of the battery. you want to use the old battery is not going directly into the bathroom though it's 1st moved on the sides. then in the meantime, a new battery is being taken out from the battery hotel and will be put into the vehicle. and only after this, while the event has finished, we have the old battery who is going into the battery will tell and is being charged in theory up, or downsizing your battery as possible. and to make sure it's glitch free. an operator keeps an eye on things. seeing a touch screen, we have more than 860 swap stations is going very, very fast. we have completed the swap stations in around 4 years. the goal of neo

is to and soul and operates $4000.00 swap stations. worldwide by 2025 and a thousands of these will be outside of china. ah. so what's my final verdict for today? i have to say i had a lot of fun driving the neo yes. 8, which is really comfortable. and the swapping station was really impressive to me because you can switch a battery in under 5 minutes, which is even faster than going to a petrol station. and i think this is the future of mobility views. e t 7 sedan is set to be launched in germany at the end of 2022, with 478 kilowatts of power, and 850 newton meters of torque. the top of the line model is set to go over 1000 kilometers on a single charge. thanks to its solid state 150 kilowatt hour battery. neos clearly

got v w and tesla in its cross hairs noon. the issue with existing batteries is that they saw this as the classic batteries not included. so do we need to swap a bill batteries to see if the way or do we just need better matching? with becky swapping is the buzzword when it comes to eve. but what isn't the deal with matching swapping, and is it a good or bad idea? welcome to what's f, where we talk about everything electric with. we thought my battery, the not of a lot of every they items from watchers to titus to cameras. for why not swap out the batches and machines that he buys more by. that's what a lot of manufacturers seem to be thinking. new in china and norway amble in

california. if he am in germany fan mobility and india and go over to in thailand, the name just a few and some countries all of the battery swapping. it's the quickest way to get people to switch to ease without range anxiety case in point india. in february 2022, when in death budget for the year was announced. union finance minister near malesky the roman said that battery swapping was clearly the way forward. and the indian government was hoping to standardize batteries, which would mean a one size fits all battery that could work with a variety of different school doors or cars. in india bounce infinity offers the e one school though with the option of swap a bell batteries, he'll more took off his stayed up with go growth, battery swapping network and he to electric has stayed up with sun mobility. so it seemed to him, battery swap is gone. but even though everyone seems really gung ho about

battery swapping technology, we're still wondering is battery swapping a good or a bad idea to fully understand with let's jump back in time to the 1st manufacturer who taught up battery swapping. your electrical batteries switched in an efficient, fully automated manner back in 2007 in israeli company named better place certainly thought battery swapping with a good idea. found a shy agassi had a lofty goal to reduce the world's dependence on fossil fuels. and he convinced a lot of people that this was the right way to go better place rest. plenty of funding. and general nissan agreed to build cars to their specifications, so that batteries could be swapped out. in effect, they had separated the battery from the electric car buying experience in agassi's own words. in a sense, if you want to think about it, this is the classic batteries not included. a better place managed to reduce the cost of the car for the customer. and eliminated long charging times because their

automated battery swapping system took all 5 minutes to perform the transplant. so in effect, better place where the originators of automotive battery swapping. but unfortunately, by 2013 their batteries, wooded fi, despite the network of swapping stations across israel, better place didn't sell too many cars before it went bust. and there are multiple reasons cited for this failure, including the fact that 3rd, 2008 the world and most commie goods weren't really ready for electric cars, let alone innovative charging or swapping solutions. who so is battery swapping a good or a bad idea? well, back in 2013, this guy seemed to think it was good around the time, better place with filing for bankruptcy. he unveiled his vision for battery swapping in the tesla model f. but by 2016 dessler had abandoned battery swapping

in favor of bethel put out the network, but not before they attack looking fed some more interesting things about batteries . well, the issue with existing batteries is that they saw a really horrible. they're expensive or unreliable. there are 3, stinky, ugly, bad in every way with. well jump ahead to 2022 and it's still hard to dispute. some of the things that must said about batch. if it's generally agreed that car batteries are expensive and heavy and dig a long time to charge, plus you have to be careful how you charge them because you might damage the battery chemistry which could lead to your battery, going to a better place sooner rather then later oh, what has changed between 2013 and know a lot, including diesel gate,

which was the catalyst for our electric future. between 20132021 global e. v. sales have drawn 33 dimes and with more ease on road. now is the time for more charging infrastructure and innovative battery solutions. i with battery swapping range, anxiety is a non issue. so more people are likely to buy a these would swap a bill batteries. and if you're selling ease without a battery, you're deducing the initial amount of money. a customer needs to spend, plus batteries don't last forever. the efficiency tapers often eventually the day and replacing the battery in an e. v costs a lot of money. in fact, it upset one tesla modeless owner so much that instead of being 22000 your loads on a new battery, he blew his card up with 30 kilos of dynamite instead. ah,

swap of batteries do offer benefits, but they're not. flawless. evie owners have no control over the condition of the battery. they get at a swap station. they just need to live with it until their next walk. and until batteries get standardized, you're stuck with the battery that specific to your e v manufacturer which limits your choice. and as is the case with spoke a little back please, especially with cause there is no option to try charging them at home. then just the fact that swap will batteries mean a lot more batteries. you need more batteries than just the number of vehicles on the road. and this costs more money money, which is eventually recovered from the customer via subscription plan. so eventually with then you end up being what it would have cost to buy the machine with the battery in the 1st place. and though some manufacturer,

safe swap about batteries need, literally him, you still need more batteries. so more manufacturing, more minute or more mining and more shipping, not exactly green. and in the case of swapping station specifically for cars, the robotics to automate a charging station at another element of cost to the process. all things considered battery swapping seemed like a quick solution to our charging dilemma. on the one hand, it's low hanging fruit for $2.00 and $3.00 las and when it comes to 4 wheelers that need to play constantly like taxes of fleet vehicles, swap over batteries do make sense. but queuing up to swap the battery in a private gas seems a bit much especially sense if all goes well, even if batteries don't get a whole lot better, fast charging infrastructure soon. we'll said we really need walkable batteries to save the world or do we just need better batteries?

ones that are lighter, more efficient, charged, faster, and last longer and the batteries won't ever become more efficient, is manufacturing more and more of them going to saddle us for the problem that we someday can swap out. if you want more read, check out our youtube channel. if you want regular features about new cars and car culture and about mobility around the world, read 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'll always be up to speed. most big cities have 2 problems in common traffic and the associated pollution that comes with it. but as one indian city is discovering pedal power just might be the best way to fix things

on keith compar cycles for part of his 5 kilometer commute to work. but he doesn't own a cycle. instead he writes a different one each day. and it's always ready to go with the click through an app. it's part of one of indiana's largest file sharing services called my bike. and compar is a loyal patron. yeah, my recommendation. i really like my boss care because the cycles are equipped with basket. that where i can store things like my laptop, if it launch bottle and water bottle. buck boomers, i got to stand for my community, are my cycle to the bus stand and parked the bike over there in what love park. then i take a bus. if you stopped under to grab another, my bike able to reach my office, my, the office that i thought was toppled contrary lives and i'm up about the largest

city in the state of good lap. like in other indian cities, i'm at the bath is working to integrate cycle sharing into the public transport system. here that includes a fleet of bosses that operate in normal traffic, as well as other is assigned their own dedicated lanes known as the boss. rapid transit system or b r t s. growing pollution has spurred the push for better public transport. indian city, the biggest cause of pollution is vehicles. the number is going up across the country and therefore, so is the traffic which causes more pollution and higher emission. i met the boss is known to have one of the best public transport systems in india. but there's room for improvement. a recent study found that more people would use public transport if the city improved what's known as the last mile connectivity. that is transport that bridges the gap between travelers, homes, and the nearest bus. more metro stop. what we tried to do was to talk to people

about their travel behavior and how are they traveling, where, where do they go? and what are the modes that they typically should, not just focus on, but it also focused on shuttle shows other movies. so understanding the travel news is what we were trying to last night. i think that would be very important for the public transportation network at the center of excellence for transport in about urban planning, experts worked with a focus group to advance the city's public transport system. i know that for their last mile and more passengers traditionally have depended on rick shot private or shared or simply their own 2 feet. but rick, shawn services can be unreliable, or expensive, and walking can be uncomfortable and even unsafe,

especially for women. accountant argy sony is trying to offer an alternative with my bike. he launched the service in 2013 and initially spent years optimizing it by study and community behavior. he believes bike sharing is the key to solving the problem of last small connectivity and more. you're talking about health issues, my bike is one of the on. so you're talking about climate change. mike is one of the on. so you talk one mobility, traffic condition. my mike is beyond so you wouldn't mental health and happiness. i'm sure not of not many people realize this, but a lot of my bakers ride my bike because of the mental strength and happiness that they get out of it. other bike sharing platforms exist and i'm about i'm of the firm belief that convenience is so is my alternative that i'm but as in been going to be convenient for the user. if yes, then i have

a market for my product. if not, i'm routed, and that's how we position my baby make made the service available. i'd station city officials have also made note of it's potential to boost public transport and help cut carbon emissions from private vehicles. in 2014, the city started its own bike sharing projects called under bike to integrate mobility services like my bike into the city wide network. so we'll do this on the bike system into the b. you provided them space along with the quota, and now the people can use the cycle to, to reach their destination and they can use the ideas as that mean truck what we're currently only 13 percent of our residents use public transport lower than the country average. but with a metro network under construction, the city of thinking to raise fact share to 30 percent by 2030 minutes. when i 1st

started using it, i was the only person in my office who was biking to work. now there are 4 or 5 people who were using it at least one day, but we also, it's a small positive writers, like on case comstar group officials hope that i'm about to reach its goal of better, more sustainable public transport. and hopefully more people will soon switch to pedal power. the ah honor unicycle yon a 10 am bergen can reach up to 40 kilometers in the coming of the combination of speed and balance. and the high risk is what fascinates me the most eyeballs to stay riding high in the saddle. piano keeps her concentration up and her eyes on the road and the little fun could present an obstacle. happy to run in lanka. aha, i do have

a handlebar that, but it's mostly so i can lean into the wind and not for support. florida and bicycles, you can hold on to the handlebars. hat off the unicycle doesn't have anything to stabilize you human switch. so you have to find your center of management and learn to build speed and confidence without using your hands off to bond. it takes years of practice to learn to ride with this kind of speed and skill even as a little girl young, a tenant back and felt magically drawn to the unicycle and began taking part in competition. what are talented balancing hasn't always been well appreciated. on the contrary, as kings lies on northern as a kid, i get in trouble for tipping my chair up on one leg and nursery school. what was your and rocking back and forth while eating mine as from your guess. so they told my parents, they suspected i had a movement disorder and what was a strong head, but my father was sure that wasn't true and he got me into sports. neither of them

that was the best decision he could have made well and i'm very grateful to him for it. and now at each $21.00 she's collected medals and prizes the world over as a 2018 world unit cycling championships in south korea. she bag 5 world champion titles in various disciplines. and in 2020, she broke the world record for the longest distance covered in one hour. over 33 kilometers on her unicycle. she even beat the men's record at that time. in few and many of the physically demanding sports. that's just unthinkable that special. no, that was another huge step forward that's really special to me. was on the of yon a 10 am bag and was born in tribal, oregon, south western germany. she moved to berlin to study. she set up a little workshop in her room in the apartment. she shares. she owns 15 unit cycles

for various purposes. one even has studied tires for off roading as often as she can. she takes off to go riding cross country and other discipline that yana holds. a world championship title for and the only one she's ever injured herself. it doesn't on mountain back up on in a mountain bike or hit my unicycle from behind in a mud hole and my leg got caught in between his crank and wailing fetched. my shin bone got wedged ends of coven. i finished the race and one, but afterwards i had to go to the medic, a perry austin was pretty swollen up. but that's the worst that's happened to me outdoors so far. it is by comparison, the ride home through berlin's rush hour traffic is like a walk in the park. a unicycle in town may be unusual, but it's perfectly legal. and it helps or stay in shape for future challenges. and

greg, my one, our world record, leave some room for improvement. i'd say, evelyn, there's also a 24 hour world record in a cycle writing. i'd like to go for that one too. i feel like you can sit on the cycle for a long time. you just need to practice ride safe weather on 4 wheels, 2 or one, and see you next time on rev. oh, [000:00:00;00] ah .

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