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with the delivery service of the future looks a bit like a box on wheels. but it's actually a high tech robot. it's near autonomy and could soon be delivering packages in germany. it's name is tail bump, it's a cargo bike based upon this vehicle and it's lightweight electric vehicle fully electric. and it's very similar to a autonomy car in terms of the sensors. so it's very safe. and it's the 1st edit for autonomy vehicle that we will see very anela street syndrome.

ah, cameras and sensors enable the robot to see everything in its surroundings and recognize obstacles, pedestrians or even traffic lights. tail is capable of making rounds by itself, but it's not let say in a state where we can fully trust these systems. so we have a human intelligence on top which can then and supplement the computer intelligence with the right feedback. on the other hand. and there's a new german law would says edit, full autonomy is allowed on the streets. and at the thought of me means that is always a supervisor who is and looking at the robot and can make decisions into it for the role with small robots could be joined on germany, streets by autonomous buses, cars and trucks. but is german society ready for all

this? this is this readings you should have i next as my to hate to say, because 1st of all i, the manufacturer has to show the federal motor transport authority that these vehicles meet, the legally mandated safety requirements on autonomy driving into defaults. and when found out this is in between, he had secondly light. a control center is required by law to supervise these kinds of vehicles, safety and help solve problems that arise. and that the robot cannot resolve on its own. i mean, you can try and come to reduce any event that tail causes an accident. it's owner is liable. it's remote controlled. there won't be a fleet of drivers, just one person controlling a number of tails. that lowers delivery costs by 2 thirds. but designer ashwin rama condron still has work to do. currently he still refining the prototype,

which is no easy task. every aspect of it is is challenging, but also i don't find it challenging because it's very passionate. it's very yeah. if it's not hard, it's not fun. with the prototype, tayo traveled to italy last week in a box there, it made its debut on public streets and proved to popular with the kids. for now, it still needs police protection. but next year it's down to business. and he he made in china. and then sure seeker made in england

a challenge made by rev. i really hope it was a charger. alba. denise o. e l 7, a 1500 kilometer extreme test charging infrastructure. swapping stations, side berry and tigers. and temperatures of up to minus 40 degrees. can this brit taken a car through an extreme wind protest in the ice east of terrains and live to tell the tale? i have a tough question. if your mobile phone runs out of battery in just a few minutes when it's minus 20, what will one of china's best new energy vehicles do when it's minus 40? will today, we're going to find out. my name is elliot. behind me is the neo e 7 o e l 7 in europe. we're taking a trip to one of china's most northern points where we're going to search for the

elusive northern lights. what of my childhood dreams? we must be welcome to rest. lou journey begins hobbin. i see snow festival, the largest such event in the world. every year. artists renee and fall, come and build some of the worlds biggest ice sculptures creating a spectacle that attracts up to $18000000.00 visitors in spite of the bone chilling temperatures and winds. oh, no, i know you're thinking, why am i taking the neo e l 7 into such a cold and challenging environment? what is a very good reason for that? even if you don't live in china, you will have heard about neo, they're expanding rapidly in europe. this year to scandinavia,

to germany and the netherlands. and this has a lot of expectations to live up to. a lot of varies and challenging conditions that the car has to perform and we don't live in sunny beach towns. but we all eventually moving to new energy vehicles. so with that, as introduce the route we're starting in hoffman in the northeast corner of china. west of us is mongolia and the east it north korea. and 1500 kilometers up north is our destination maha. a beloved tourist spot in china is spice of the optic conditions. because this is one of the key places where you can sometimes see the northern life. and i've always wanted to experience that with this is the hub in siberian tiger pod and it's feeding time. now is important to

remember that these iberian tigers in front of me right here, which are my, the native to the area that we're going in the north, the china as a brown bed. so this is not a place you want to run out of electric juice. the l 7. however, new has is covered in 2 ways. the 1st is we need power where little vine will come . busy and if we get stuck and give us a little bit of a charge. yeah, the 2nd is the e l 7 camping mode. so if we do get stuck somewhere for the evening, we can lock the doors and maintain the cabin temperature on the inside. now hopefully we don't have to use any of those, and we won't be seeing these tigers in real life. again, there's just one joint obstacle, the 1500 kilometer road from here to there. and i already told you how scarcity

code it gets ok, which will lead to believe batteries hate. but it's also filled with steep mountain posted with batteries. so does love and only a few charging points, which means the neo e o 7 really have to live up to its range from series of over 500 kilometers on a single charge. if women to get their chinese to have syria pollution problems. one answer was to make e v hugely attractive to tax and other incentives. today, they everywhere in cities like shanghai, aging, or hub in life in a chinese city, wasn't easy, easy charge that everywhere. and in fact, china post around $2000000.00 charges in comparison, all of europe only around $300000.00 plus movies rarely need maintenance. and performance is excellent.

i'm here as a local restaurant in hobbin. i'm about to have lunch with a couple of neo owners. in fact, one of them and this very restaurant, i'm curious to find out what do they think about me driving into the frozen north of china. and what, what i should die if you did your but my main concern for you is charging. i'm a little bit anxious because i don't know how many kilometers you can drive between charging in the cold or so, but i feel confident the service technicians can help you. if there's a problem. whenever i have any problem related to the car, i call there after sales service. they care even more than i do, which gives me a warm feeling. i will get a drink from anyone. me. but now as much as i like hobbin, it's time to get back into the warm, neo, and onto the road to moore, her there's just one more thing i need to do.

as you can see behind me where a new battery swapping station is 87 behind me, it's getting a battery change in just 3 minute when the next. but this will be our last battery swap before driving. 1500 kilometer is nor so we've got the arctic root bill and that's going to have all of our battery charges all the way up. this is actually the last house got this 87 whom i finished when next in line. so we're going to get the last note i pay attention to, you know, show the new some good.

there is a lot of hope for graphite batteries to radically reduce charging times in the near future. but they're not in mass production just yet. i. so this is currently the quickest way to get to the road. i wish the stations were already available where we're going because while many places now have fast super charges, that can get any of these relatively quickly back onto the road. only these battery substations are currently as quick as filling up your gas tank. china is a vast country and the differences between urban and rural areas can be stalk, these futuristic battery swap stations. make city life with ease, easy, and i can only hope they will come to more and more areas.

from here on out, i'm really leaving the big cities behind ahead of me a 1500 kilometers of mountains code. and if i'm really lucky, amazing, northern lights, ah, it has to be said the that the road ahead to maha is also a real test for this new technology that we hope will carry us into the next century. while gas stations everywhere range anxiety in an e. v is still a thing. and as the frozen mountains of halem, john come into view ahead. our battery range drops by up to 50 percent. in the coming days. this will force us to carefully planned the route ahead because with the limited number of available charges, we now can't afford to miss a single one. ah,

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really highly is a charger outlet. i do. i know my way to the very northern end of china to find out how the near e l 7, a battery operated cost phase in the extreme cold temperatures and hopefully to also see the elusive northern lights with

johnny on a very cold minus 25 day now i need to fill the car with some electrons and i need for my belly with some nutrients. so better get going. ha, ha, ha, there is something i have to tell you about northerners, even on the coldest days, many don't wear gloves. you could get the impression, they're just tough because life, he definitely is no easy but you'd be missing so much talk. even in the most remote corner here, we are constantly being approached by friendly and curious people. not all of your life. i will be all through again. ah, what you did. ah,

because you're either before you were my lawyer or not, or when i was like, oh, many want to chat to show us around to introduce their amazing hearty foods and tell us about their lives. i've lived in china for a long time, but i never expected such a cold place like the far north to greet me with this much war. oh yeah. number to little field until you play coming on the the oh yeah. i mean, what the model national

don't based off you just use your fingers. stick in the lettuce and roll out of a good role for some sauce on it. mm hm. cook food is the best is so flavor would meet source. just the best, the me

now i suppose it's time we talked about the near l 7, which has been our trustees feed for the past few days. and he, we all with chinese heritage, a chinese future. i look fantastic. color is bright, always really stands out against the snow here. now we've been driving quite challenging conditions as you can see. and all the technology which is packed inside has been really useful. so it's got automatic high beam which did what it said on coming cars. it's got the cameras, the light off, which helps us to relax a bit more in the cabin. and it's not just up. the car has a 100 kilo our battery, which is giving us more than enough range to get through these mountainous passes. healey roads, in this area, one more thing. we got slow ties. really useful. as you can see,

1.4000000000 people call china home the even lou halem, john is one of the lowest provinces. just 32000000 people live here. you can sometimes joyce hours without spotting another so until suddenly a train appears in the night. on the way to where you are going to more her me range. that is the thought in my mind. even after nearly 5 days on this trip

through cities, mountains, i know the bumpy roads. i find the seat still comfortable and the ride just right. i expect it to be exhausted. instead, my mind imagined snow drifts blocking a road or hungry tigers, finding me late at night 10 years ago, near and it's electric vehicles didn't even exist just now meal and now they're building a 1000 more charges in rural china. i think 10 years from now range would be on my mind. when you think about the logistics of this trip, it really is remarkable. as you can see behind me, the locals put their cars in the car, sleeping bags to protect them from the cold weather. we can't really do that with the charges or the battery and sometimes they get frozen as an example,

this bottle left in the car last night when it was minus 32 and it's completely frozen solid and expanded the plastic. most of the locals we spoken to have also said this trip is simply not possible, but so far we've managed to prove the wrong. she way you is one of the people building the charging that we're up here in the remote north of china. i asked him about the difficulties working such cold temperatures. been getting mutual woman. thank you very much, correct. it's very difficult. we facing serious challenges of the north because as you know, during winter temperatures here dropped far below 0 and we are working all the way up into the tundra golden tube. so sometimes the ground here will become very hard and even the equipment used for construction becomes very hard to use. it can be very difficult to lay the groundwork and even once the equipment is

in place, our operators need to work in very harsh outdoor environments to ensure a smooth operations on sugar. you know, we've been a fatal machine not show showing one of the show that you want to. we need to know what you know, on january 20th this year of the area around more drop to minus 50 degrees celsius . that's the lowest measure temperature. since 969, when do we do? i don't know the song she should. thank you will need to pay you to go to the teacher. it's, you know, give me who me and then after driving through yet another night we arrive, as the morning sun reveals the stunning beauty of one of china's largest nature

possess along the border to russia. ah ah ah ah, there are many things we need to do to preserve the world we love. one is the decomposition of our cause. of course minnow still need to be mind extracting rare earth does bring its own problems. but already 99 percent of these batteries can be recycled and used in another e v. when this one expires. unfortunately, my childhood dream of seeing the northern light remains unfulfilled. nonetheless,

i drove over $1500.00 clumps is in the freezing coat, charged 8 times used one battery swapping station right at the start. and i traveled into the unknown and got past many a fair along the way. ah without carbon spilling out of our exhaust, completely silent, leaving little more than time on. ah, we made a, it's a more her in northern china where it's a very chilly minus 35 degrees right now. while surprise me is not how the neo, the electric car is, god is here, but how it's done in comfort refinement with warmth. and it shows that neo is ready to conquer the world with the l 7. and they're all the models, the,

even the electric car is ready for any situation. i've got to head back to shanghai . now. my name is ellie richards, and see next time ah ah, and here's to conquering the world again on the next episode of rev. ah ah, with

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