ah, how to get the most out of charged batteries and take a new truck forrest been rep next on dw. ah, oh, what people have to say matters to us? gone. that's why we listened to their stories. reporter every weekend on d. w. to day on ref, the auto and mobility show going for a ride in the drive in his car, in china, the new electric truck that's designed to maximize road safety. how to max out your range and save money in an electric car and what's behind the rise and rise of

these anyway? driverless cars seem to be very much in the fast lane in china in this s u. v. a driver and even the steering wheel are optional. search engine turned a i developer by do recently unveiled the muffle, and some of its old vehicles are already being piloted on beijing's ready to lay is founder and managing director of sino auto insights and industry consulting firm. when we talk about rural taxes that still far a ways out, he says chinese companies want to get consumers used to the cons by 1st offering them as right hailing services like mba or dd, except they're robotic that real life hazards could delay

a full rollout. specifically in china, there are a lot of scenarios where we wouldn't see them in germany where we might have a subtle unsure or delivery vehicle or motorbike that's crossing lanes without the proper notification, things like that. and so we're so quite a ways away from point to point where you call a car like a devi. there's no driver in it picks you up and that takes you anywhere you want to go in any weather in any caesar by do claims. it's newer models have an autonomous capabilities that don't require a driver. righty surprisingly smooth that some point we run into other cars in to morrow bites into pedestrians. and the car has been able to successfully maneuver by itself. that was until it ran into some illegally parked vehicles on a narrow road. then it swerved into the wrong lane and human intervention was necessary. chinese, autonomous vehicles could follow electric vehicles and be exported. but concerns of

a data collection could get in the way china, europe, and the u. s. are all racing to write laws that govern they use. these could prevent smart cars from accessing the vast amounts of data. they collect these ranges from mapping data to voices and visuals like faces and license plates collected by on board cameras and senses, especially in the military zones, government agencies and other sensitive areas. underscoring those concerns. china has barge tesla's from parts of the country that could help chinese carmakers dominate their home market. ivan lamb is a senior analyst at hong kong based counterpoint. research a chinese comic or they are very good. ah, inter great us. they, i will, can live that this ah, service provider, or other solution provider. they will like to say the cause you case,

they install your seek them in the local, into my car. even if foreign players can adapt to chinese data, lewis is still unclear how they can make big inroads. what you're likely, caesar, bifurcation chinese companies in, in american companies dominating in their perspective loan regions and then may be competing for regions like europe, south america. some observers like chinese industrial policy expert mikhail flic saying it's simply about projecting national power. economic goals, labels needles, or is national security. but main goal is so the power competition between the countries are that's what's being pursued and these policies are not you know, fostering the auto. oh thomas vehicle market with rollouts of autonomous vehicles now happening in both china and the us. the

battle for tech supremacy could soon be moving on to this streets. this is an electric car. and this, and this long before ellen musk unveiled tesla model 3 whole 119 years before. in fact, a guy called albert pope presented the columbia motor carriage, one of the 1st commercial electric cars. americans loved it and electric cars in general. so much so that's around the turn of the century. they out sold gasoline powered cars. so what the hell happened? oh, almost all vehicles in our streets today, i gasoline powered and even though electric cars have come, they certainly haven't quite broken into the mainstream. but that's about to change . why did electric cars disappear? and why are they going to make it big this time?

ah, let's take the 1st question 1st. there were a couple of reasons why the electric car failed and the early 19 hundreds, but ultimately the problem is the battery. this is tom standards, the deputy editor of the economist magazine. he's written a hold book on the history of the car, the lead acid battery, which is what the early calls using was very cheap. but it doesn't pack a lot of energy into a small space and it's very heavy. this meant you couldn't go very far and usually under 70 kilometers, even 2 of the brightest minds of the time, henry ford and thomas edison, who wanted to develop the fordable electric cars, were not able to solve this. and so the internal combustion engine took the lead, a gradually got more reliable, and the fact that you could just, you know, head out into the roads and you'd probably be able to find fuel for this vehicle in a hardware store for a chemist that gave them an edge because people who were buying these early cars,

which emily rich people, he wanted to go on adventures, electric. how many cars had one last idea to save that product. they started marketing it specifically to women. they called clean and quiet. and you don't have to be strong to turn the handle to get them to these will seen as sort of feminine attributes. but then most drive us when men. and so the electric car gradually turns into a nice products and then to, to be completely throughout the 20th century, there has been some attempts to revive them. for example, in the seventy's, when the all crisis had people looking for alternative sources of energy. but the battery technology hadn't progressed much. the come back was short lived in the ninety's, general motors came out with the easy one. it attracted somewhat of a cult following which i running lee might have been problem for the manufacturer. it turned out to be a bit of a p o, a nightmare because the more general motors when told about just how wonderful in green, a good for the environment. the electric cars were the more the company reminded

everybody how buyers for the environment. all of it's, all the cars were ultimately devil motors decided to pull the plug. g m tonight this. that's one reason why electric cars have never made a big is that the kind oil industry probably didn't really want them to? well give to the electric car, the future sponsored by the gasoline producers of america. i can't go very very the combustion engine has been a money printing machine for come, acres and oil companies, but now hasn't expiry dates because 2 things have changed. one battery technology has improved. lithium ion battery store, more energy in a smaller space, and they're lighter than lead base batteries. and to the big thing that changes that we are now concerned about climate change in a way that people, 100 years ago, most people hadn't, hadn't thought about about a tool. and now we recognize that pumping all the base outside the atmosphere,

which we've been doing for the last 200 years, also is affecting the climate. and therefore we call a global, empowering all caused by burning fossil fuel. costs are responsible for about a 10th of energy related c o 2 emissions. one way to get them down is to reduce the need to own a car as much as possible. by, for example, giving people better public transports or safer bike lanes. and then we need electric cars compared to combustion engine cars, the image less over the lifetime, up to 70 percent, depending on where they produced and driven. and so the list of countries planning to ban sales of cars with internal combustion engines is growing. and many that are not yet on. it's like the usa, i'm making it very favorable to buy in the car companies are shifting as well. ah,

we are waiting for the future or electrifying our entire fleet of cars some faster than others, but many of the major traditional ca make us have said goals for electrifying their fleet. at us, we're changing to sales of these on the rise, especially in europe and china. more than half of con, our se, then ex car will be electric. but despite all this, the big picture still looks pretty bleak. there are around $1300000000.00 passenger vehicles on the roads, and only 1.5 percent of them are electric. change just happens slowly, doesn't it? well, not really. change actually happens in weight from the flush toilet to the telephone . the microwave to tv and computers, every innovation that snuck into everyday lives that so in the same way. so if you adopt new technologies very slowly and then very quickly, this is paul drummond,

who's been figuring out what this means for electric cars, a number of their case studies that done been done across a number of technologies in different senses. and we now recognize that technologies typically follow an adoption in the shape of an s curve to understand what he means. let's look at global smartphone sales starting in 2007. when apple introduced the 1st i phone very i at 1st they only went up slowly, then around 2010 as models have become better and cheaper. sales rapidly shot up. and from about 2016 as more and more people owned a smartphone, they started leveling off and then even dipping a little bit, this pattern of changed is called an s curve because, well, it looks like an s roughly at least we can divide it into 3 phases emergence, diffusion and combination. so what does this mean for electric house?

it's always difficult to accurately forecast the future, but some we can see the electric vehicles have grown in sales very rapidly in 2010 way less than one percent of all cost that was sold where electric by 2021. this ship had grown to almost 9 percent now the tipping probably out of this immersion school is it phased at the 1st place at the us into widespread diffusion going forward. this means the share of electric cars will shoot up rapidly. how rapidly exactly is anyone's guess butts? and one of pulled roman's predictions they could reach around 50 percent of new sales by 2030 it's very likely that we have reached a tipping point from which there's probably no return. i. so i think the adoption, the widespread replacement, all internal combustion engine, cars with electric vehicles, at least 4 suits of personal cars, probably inevitable. the electric car is finally set to go mainstream. it's only

a question of how quickly and that depends on how quickly we solve the remaining challenge. it's just putting electric cars on the roads is not enough. the infrastructure needs to grow alongside them. we need more charging points and also standardized systems. so people can reliably charged the cars, and the electricity grids needs to be prepared to cope with increased demands. different places are moving at different speeds. europe is approaching a quarter of new car sales being electric, china, the biggest evie market in absolute numbers is putting several 1000000 electric cars on the roads every year. contrast that they're only $50000.00 davies on the roads in india. in total, the shelf new sales is smaller than one percent. to say the benefits of electric vehicles like cleaner air evenly. they need to be policies that speed up

deployments everywhere. the fees are still expensive. even a small mass market model like volkswagens id 3 co close to $40000.00 euros. that's mainly because it's costly to produce batteries. but prices are falling rapidly and in the near future, electric cars are forecast to cost the same as gasoline powered once. governments can play a role in getting them there by subsidizing them. much like that that a norway that's kind of become the world's e v post the child. did you know that norway, so way more electric cars per capita than the u. s. norway. i think norway john very, very well, they didn't provide it at the quite a long time. i mean very solid subsidies for person richard vehicles, which is now why their sales are 120 percent in entry. and then we also need to consider our supply of raw materials,

like lithium kobolds. how can we reduce the impact on the environment and local communities? and can we use better alternatives? but these are all topics for a whole new videos. the only thing that's left to say here is that it's crazy to think how far electric cars of come and by the looks of it's that journey has just begun and as he prizes are rising everywhere, getting more kilometer per charge is crucial to day, rather than going to tell you exactly how to drive more efficiently with you, or even to put things into context in germany, it costs around $0.40 per kilowatt hour at an ac, china, right? know which means that costs are on such euro for approach hutch. this was potentially around 3 and 50 kilometers in this tesla model, 3 performance. of course, i have a few tips and tricks to maximize this range, which i will share with you now. and yes, some of these tips also apply to combustion engine. machines ah,

drive consciously at instead of react, avoid standing still moments because the most amount of energy is consumed when you take off from 0. if you really pay attention to the road ahead and the traffic patterns you will find, there are a lot of signs that you can read in advance. after all, you might not need to come to a complete stop if that traffic signal is about to change from yellow to britain. instead, you could slow down just enough, keep the cas momentum going and then move off once again. because breaking to a complete halt and then driving of once again from 0 consumes a lot of energy. so be conscious of your surroundings and according to get to a speed limit as quick as possible. if the traffic allows it, the quicker you get to your cruising speed, the better it is for the consumption. keep in mind how you're treat,

you accelerate, a pedal has a direct influence on the range. so always be gentle on the accelerator even where you aim to hit the speed limit quickly. once you're cruising speed, settle in therefore as long as possible to make sure your energy consumption estate, regular bursts of exhilaration and deceleration will have a negative impact on consumption. of course, this route mostly applies to driving in the city. when you are fled out on unrestricted stretches of the german out about, for example, expect arrange to drop dramatically. this is because it's beats above 80 kilometers per hour. drake or resistance increases exponentially. which means you're even, it's more power, which in turn means more consumption. good for highways, long stretches, and less traffic cruise control. it can happen to reduce consumption. most modern

cost e, these included come with a lot of driver 8th that could potentially help extend range cruise control is $1.00 of them. when the cost computer is in charge of making changes to the speed, it's often lot more precise than human input. and especially if a car has predictive or a depth of cruise control, it's ability to be energy efficient increases of cause. some cars also come with eco mode, or as it's called kill mode in the tesla which limits the power an offer. thus potentially conserving energy. ah, make use of the topography, be conscious of elevation, changes seem like a cyclist, the more appellate goes, the more energy is consumed, the more down it goes, the more you are released. like in most he gets driving applicant rooms, more energy, and letting the carcass down her head comes of energy. some ease allow you to

disengage regenerative braking entirely, which will allow you to close down as if you where neutral, which of course only works if you've got a key stretch of road ahead of you. but regenerative braking or one pedal, driving in some cars, converts the cast kinetic energy into electrical energy that gets stored in the battery. so if you have the option of adjusting the region on your e v, opting for 100 percent region, we're happy to get more out of the thing attract ah, it's all about the wheel there. rim, the tire size there with all that has an influence. of course, the sinner and light as a tire, the less resistance, the less consumption you could always up for thinner tires or lighter ribs, but keeping your tire pressure and shake is the quickest way to make sure that you, it's easy. it's driving energy efficiently. when tires are an inflated,

the contact patch on the road surface increases, which means the resistance increases, which in turn increases consumption. ah, when the tires are properly inflated, the contact pitch on the road of his decreases decreasing resistance in turn reducing consumption. a good guy then is to inflate an unloaded cost tire to the pressure that the manufacturer recommends for when the car is fully loaded. keep in mind though with higher tire pressure and less contact to the road, both comfort and safety are compromised. ah, the now we would be of might have really work for let nama driving for my 1st run over the course of a to of kilometer, looked through city traffic. i drove the way a lot of us normally. i reacted to the traffic around me without thinking i had, and i didn't really pay attention to how i was treating the accelerator or the brake pedal. at the end of the loop i got to reside.

ah, the now 2nd let fission driving on this run. i paid close attention to how i was driving. so i left to drive assistance systems on just to see how my driving behavior could impact energy consumption. leading to this result from now, i am back from my to rice. in my 1st run, i was driving very normally my 2nd run and tried to be as efficient as possible. that is actually the reside and was 4 minutes last up and 4 point one kilowatt hour, more efficient. so being fast and efficient. if the good i can say golden cheese is this the future of urban freight transport? the volt, his euro truck promise is clean and above all safe deliveries. but why does it look like a bus we're going to find out volt as a sweeter start up?

that is looking to challenge the big ones in the truck segment. and now we're going to check out what they have to offer. volta says it's made the world's 1st purpose built full electric 16th ton truck designed specifically for goods distribution in urban environments. the vehicle has been built from the ground up to take advantages of electric power technology on busy cramp streets. since the drive train up, this truck is at the rear axle, the front axle has more space to move and thus the complete vehicle is way nimble. and then, for example, a diesel truck ditching the diesel combustion engine for a battery. electric drive train allows for even more revolutionary design acts. if you're center fall under that kind of looks like a bus, but if you're sand sided, you see it's basically not above the design inspiration from a bus. and the coaches is deliberate. because if you think about it,

that vehicle is designed to operate in city centers safely. so if i, if i take transport for london statistics because that's the one i have in my head . 4 percent of road miles in london. i'll try by trucks. 26 percent of pedestrian fatalities and 78 percent of cyclists, deaths in london are attributable to trucks. the cab is all about maximizing drive of visibility and the drivers view over all of what they're, they're driving around. whether that's with the eyes or through the cameras. assisting them around the $360.00 degree view of the vehicle so that we maximize the safety of a truck this size, driving through city centre street. what we see right now is the driver sitting in the center, which is rather unusual. yes. yeah. and, and if you think about it, everybody has a left on the right down drive. but if you're the driver of that vehicle, you have to make a judgement where that fall side isn't. that's always going to be a judgement. whereas if you're sitting in the center,

you're putting the human atlas literally in the center of everything. but the have exactly the same wit. i the side to make the judgement when they're driving through a narrow street. it's also the best position for visibility. so our driver has 220 degrees of direct visibility so that they have a really good view of everything going on around them. with our driver doesn't have to climb in and out of a cab the top here somewhere that they can literally as you see, walk straight in. yeah. but every time they get in and out they get in and out. always on to the sidewalk on to the pavement the the driver of a left or right and drive vehicle always gets out into the traffic. so our drivers

a lot safer. we have sliding doors rather than swinging doors. so whenever the driver does get out there, no opening the door into the pathway of cyclists coming past so we have to keep the vehicle with to an absolute minimum. so we've done absolutely everything we can for the safe operation over vehicle. the size in city centers, this is not a long haul truck, but it can carry 8 tons of cargo it up to 90 kilometers per hour, a fair distance. so we have a range of a $150.00 or 200 kilometers. a range on a customer can specify either to battery packs or 3 battery packs. if they have a refrigerated cargo box, it will always get specified with the 3rd battery pack because our refrigerated a refrigerated operation is running straight from the battery as well. all voltage, 0 models offer some 30 cubic meters of load space. in 2021, germany had more than 3 and a half 1000000, registered trucks on its road. now,

do you want to guess how many of these had an alternative drive? train not even 80000. so i think a truck like this has the potential to become a huge success, but not only in germany, the combination of 0 emissions and increased road safety could be very attractive to logistics firms. the european roll out for the $1610.00 volt is euro will begin in 2023. and the company says it's also planning $5.12. convolt is euro variance. that's all for now. keep on trucking and join us the more oh tonight about benches on the next episode of rev. ah, with

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