what is it really is possible to reverse the age of researchers and scientists all over the world for in a race against time. they are peers and arrivals with one daring goals to help smart nature. the more likes watching it on youtube dw documentary to few small electric calls in europe. all china is comic has now spinning the boys tons of fuss electric o as to when it also be a success. get fiance's right now on the road. the

are small electric cars made in china the right answer to your production constrain . small affordable eaves for white public. china if it's a pace maker full of a in bringing in bringing small electric vehicles to the roads of to good. small cars powering a mobility transformation and making electron mobility affordable for the masses. the affordability of electric mobility. this is one of the key factors to mazda to transition towards the carpet, and you'd from will be the thing. why are so few low cost electric cars on the road in europe get the lower caustic men's best known product off off from of the folks la guns or other european or width and

a common your factors right now the risk as extremely high that the electric car will no longer be affordable for the average citizen. for somebody the car is made in germany are simply too expensive. china could close this gap in the european market costs. you can see this affordability is very important for a year and being consumers today. and so i think there's a very high demand in the market and we're small vehicles kind of frustrated what needs to happen for europe to also enjoy a small affordable, easy the chinese industry is now enough in a position to demo critize electric mobility for the rab is on the lookout for answers. the accounts i realized that small vehicles are how you move e mobility for the tide. trash got from lower section 8 in port small electric

cars from china to germany. one model, the 35 kilowatts diode, and e, s 2 at the price of 34500 euro is minus the german government's environmental bonus . 11000 bureaus cheaper. the do the to s with $27.00 kilowatt. there's a huge range of small ease, but only in the chinese market. the willing hung one for example, is china's best selling electric car for the price equivalent to just back to 700 euro's you can buy a, b, y, d, c. go there for just 10400 zeros. isaac, you leave 100 many costs. it's just $4900.00 euro's the chinese e car market is a bargain hunters power dice around every 50 car can be has to be equivalent of less than $15000.00 bureaus. 12 percent cost between $15.20.

37 percent between 20 and 30021 percent between fair sheet and $50000.00 and only 11 percent cost. more than 50000 bureaus. sheen up the dean to the china supplies the market. you need with small vehicles including in europe, mysql and 5, sorry. do you touch cash car bill to business, selling the russian car brand lot in germany, but since russia's invasion of ukraine, the business with lot of has grind to a halt. and so he's made a lot of germany's dealer and service networks with more than $320.00 branches available to chinese car makers. and this and deal with the from the beginning, we've known that the european market is important for electric vehicle manufacturers. we did a bit of research, drum and car owners drive an average of 40 kilometers a day, was it soon? the phone goes to the small electric vehicles and we have a range of 300 kilometers and that's enough for

a week the items. and so i think there's a very high demand in the market for small vehicles over the top. and so is it kind of what's very good? in china, the small easy market has been built up systematically between 20152022. the average price dropped from 66232000 bureaus. while in europe it rose from 49256000. the development of china, the electric car industry was the portion for decades by governmental policies and subsidies from the stock. there's been a focus on what kinds of vehicles are actually produced, the last line, these policies in china, and this whole is the strategy, have a number of reasons why they're promoting small cars that point to the final thing fluids, electric range, how far they go, how efficient, they are and how many resources where you are, in other words,

it's searching efficiency standards which come to the test on that. and so they're also making sure that the cars don't get bigger and bigger. lexi do here, i'll just make it work with around the pounds. in your big cars dominates the electric market. small electric cars play only a minor role. like the electric c at $500.00, which can be had 435000 bureaus. they run out zoe, which costs to run 37000 euros or the ego life which asking university professor good cash. who brought onto the market in a small series for $24000.00 bureaus in europe. only 7 percent of all electric cars sell for less than factory ties. injurious. 45 percent cost between $70.55. and a whopping 48 percent go for more than $50000.00 euros cars that are mostly

heavier than to time and run contrary to the concept of economic co electric mobility where electrical is physics and the area of the car is used to accelerate it and, and that's makes no sense beyond my non so my goal is on that, but we have a tendency towards ever bigger and wider vehicles with more aerodynamics that are inefficient at high speeds. that's not a good development. and it's a shame that with electrification, inexpensive small cars are disappearing. basically, one of the cars for the people in the oldest floats in europe, there's not much profit to be made with small e cars at the moment. it's not showing me the small number of units produced that increases costs. the decisive factor is that the battery a transfer ride for 2 percent of the total cost of any car. and european car makers mostly buy them as a high price from china. the world market leader and electricity storage. the

government in beijing has ensured that china controls the entire value chain of electric cars, giving it complete autonomy and production the chinese public for real estate. is that the strategy for the development of the countries automotive industry and 5 year plans. while european leaders let go here in plans to make e mobility viable for the masses? need the government, we need the regulations to make it happen. it's not the industry, it's the regulators which will make it possible that small electric tearing cost. so for example, we've reduced the subsidies for electric ready costs, and then the most of the small costs that just spring here, it's cheapest electric car was available in germany in 2022 for 11500 years after a subsidy of $9000.00 bureaus in 2025, with light subsidies,

it will cost almost twice as much. while a high end electric s u. v from bmw will increase in price by just 20 percent. to 55 sites and bureaus. at least volkswagen has a nice that it will launch and electric car for less than $25000.00 euros. but not until 2026. you can always reach full calls coming earlier, but we have to make this call profitable. we are not in the social business that this is about us all the company going forward and creating the money that we can reinvest in the future. and you, in his factory plant and a new factory in spring where labor is cheaper, should help keep production costs to the id to low bought the new plants wouldn't be finished before 2026. until then german small electric car buyers will have to make due with vehicles imported from china by to scott.

but he, you hurdles will have to be overcome before these cars can launch in. europe. is open the to the so called certification phase. this procedure are 80 long pages for the modification, right? the lucky that we've teamed up with a lot of german and they've also given us lots of chips and assist us with the modifications to the tips on the system. so quite of a little bit of sealants bladder in the home location process, a car must be adapted to the technical requirements of the european union. the largest company in rylon fights also sales chinese cars in germany. as you do and a small car from dorset, which alara selves under the deal name for $24000.00 euros. the cars are not quite as cheap as in china because they have to be retrofitted at great expense. everything from seat belts to airbags on a kind of european safety regulations. you

want small cars to have equipment that much is vehicles that can go 200 kilometers on the track. there's no difference, not even in the safety requirements is just that's in china or in asia. also in india. have a lot of vehicles that cost well under $10000.00 euros, which i don't think will be available here. and from 2024, every car registered in the you will have to have complex driver assistance systems that can regulate the speeds. and warren, when the car leaps its lane, as well as extra bells and whistles like driver driving us detection is that's where the beauty of traffic and technological hardware is that the use imposing on the small cost sector, or a hindrance to shop prices on the small chinese cars have to undergo a radical overhaul, qualify for you, home, a location. not every cheap chinese

e card can even pass the test level the standards out there and i, i would, i wouldn't accept to lower the standards because of the competition from parties. however, it european manufacturer is trying to produce a low cost electric car are also struggling with the use possibly safety regulations. somehow, europe doesn't seem to be the right place for cheap e cars. the maybe to do knew how to, how to make it more affordable than what we, what we can do because we have, we have the situation. we have the framework where we have an adult that the price will be at the same level as chinese car. but what we are to, what we should to do as your opinions are, we need to be too many to be more efficient. i'm up to mistake. i want to be optimistic and we need to be optimistic because we don't have any other choice. but

time is running out to the european auto industry. william lee, the head of chinese car maker, neal has a nice plans to launch a sub brand of small electric cars in europe next year. and chinese car make a great wall which produces small e cars like the or a funky cat, an or r one has already started to shake up the german market with the help of switzerland's m a fragrance. europe's largest car dealer is making around $200.00 of its dealerships and service outlets in germany, available to market the oprah funky cat and soon also a revised version of the or r one. meal fry made a name for itself in the 19 seventy's when it started selling jackson's your friends like subaru and later mitsubishi in germany. in the 19 ninety's meal fry also imported the 1st phone day cars, germany,

and helped establish the korean brand in europe. there's a couple of similarities to the launch of the chapter, nice manufacturers in the seventy's, you sent the green manufacturers in the early ninety's and we know especially what it's impossible for the look to be successful. and how long does it last? nobody knows that we have seen the manufacturer of the take over that is to actually pop markets like germany. hyundai went independent after being jump started by m l fry. know also produces it. cars in europe that circumvents high you terrace and avoid the high costs of import export. could this be a blueprint for chinese car makers? the key question is also going to be, will, chinese produces actually a stop exporting only and also stop producing in europe. and i think once that's happening and, you know, then they have made it and i think then they can also contribute to these,

these goals of, you know, producing cheaper costs in europe for your customers. and that will also then trigger reaction by your income make us that as a demand for these. and you know, to also come up with their own solutions. features prescott is convinced that he's only a pioneer as an importer of chinese e cars and wouldn't be doing this job for more than 5 years. we are the problem with the japanese used to do when the koreans k on a come 1st s there were importers hoover and then they try to establish the market themselves step so you can gain another market. so that's what the japanese show noted. so that's what the korean showed on that. that's what the chinese are now going to show in a more brutal way of applies on the side. and he's convinced that small chinese e car is like the die you and will play an important role in opening doors to the european market. a contact miss like as a rabble,

it doesn't flatter it runs quietly quieter than some cars may produce here in europe. i will pull it up here to fix it for me who lives in the country side, and i drive when he has suddenly sense that the ducks on the road don't move because they didn't hear the cars. and this was a budget of about china. we'd be driving around without small electric cars, a side bar to steve's gig. we'll china save e mobility in europe. the comes to they've realized that small vehicles are how you move e mobility forward. china is this the state of the off develop the in fact providing chief electric hopefully the 1st aid in this way, it will open the doors to the discussion of the world is saved by those who buy it . it's always a matter of demand estimate of the china use not only a pace makeup of the website, the chinese oems, not only pacemakers, but also catalyst now transition to electric mobility. whether small

chinese e cause over run europe in the future or the european also industry is spurred on by competition from china to build more affordable e cars itself. the emphasis from china will definitely help make electron mobility more affordable for everyone. the . this is the current generation overall struck a very successful model since the ninety's and it has now taken the next step into the future by becoming available as a purely electric version. we're checking that out right now. welcome to ref. requested is, can be aster electric live up to the success of its predecessors. that's what we want to find out today. the general driving impression then

the product thing is pleasantly silent, which is partly due to the sol improved gloss that come to a stand that in every us from on we're mainly driving in are all the city. so a lot of stuff in go because of traffic lights on the traffic jams, and we have an average consumption of 12.8 kilowatt hours for 100 kilometers, which is way below watts old will james all what has to be measured in w o t p, so in theory, it should be possible to achieve arranged that a is a little higher than what awful claims why at least achieve the range opened claims . because oftentimes you won't be able to reach that with all of all the electric cost. the 1st model named us to came on to the market in 1991. so. busy so shortly after the german, the re union. so you might be able to say, this car a somewhat

a child of the union. so what better place to take a look at the current generation then the capital city of germany. but the aster asked was the successor to the contest that happened because awful decided to replace it stodgy. military names like admiral cadets. and over the years, opal sold more than 13500000 units of the astra. and in the station wagon version, which was europe's best selling and its category from 1993 to 2000. now back to the astra electric what i like about the after electric, if it's forwarding is not only the little quite sporty, but you'll also sitting quite low. then of course you have the battery sitting very low in the car, you have a low center of gravity and you feel that while driving into car, if it's fee, it's $40.00 and i really like it. but there's a lot of competing sion in the segments. vw id 3,

an nissan lease. the only thing i would have wished for a live in law power, 115 kilowatts is ok, but not exactly the sporty type. if you compare that to the dollar, use id 3 that comes in at $100.00. 15 kilowatts of paula, that is a number i would consider just at the beginning of sporty, but you have to say one thing with 170 kilometers in our top speed. the aust drive is 10 kilometers at all faster than the id 3. the straw electric gas powered by $115.00 kilowatt electric engine power with the 54 kilowatt hour battery. and that gives you a w l t p range, all 418 kilometers, which is quite good. if you compare that to be able to use id 3, the current generation will have, uh 50 a kilowatt hour battery and go like 10 kilometers more.

but if you compare the average consumption b o boss to comes in, it's. busy 13.8 kilowatt hours, while the id 3 will have $15.00. so 0.4 as a difference. why is that? mostly because of the weight, you know, plaster as a weight of just on the 1680 kilograms. while the id 3 will be at least 1805 kilograms. so a 12230 kilograms, which is quite a lot receipts in the us or the know me go the certified and you feel that with every kid, all meant that you drive not a single bit of pain or any of the unpleasant feeling the

on the outside, the astro electric looks just the same as the hybrid and combustion engine version the interior of the electric gas to us and all that different than that of the, of the drive versions. you have 210 inch displays. the right one is a touch screen infotainment system. but what i really like is the fact that open decided to keep physical buttons for the climate control. so you can adjust the temperature or the fan or whatever you want the steering wheel fee, it's quite good. looks ok, i'm not a fan of that huge part in the middle. it's a little too big, but i have to say i like that. they took the visor, design from the front end, integrated into the steering wheel. quite nice. then there are some buttons for the most important functions, volume adjustment for. busy on the cruise control and so on. what i like uh the materials at the door right here. this is some soft touch fee. it's really nice.

this looks like carbon, it's not but it a fee is good any way. and then you have some level type down here, hydro of plastic, here in grey, at the push of a button, you can switch between 3 different dr. local. the aster also has a heads up display that one is optional, but i would always suggest you opt in for that because it's so much easier to keep track of your speed, the speed limit and also the vacation. because all of that, it's shown there. and there is no need to take your eyes down from the road so you will always be on your way, safer. with the length of 4.37 meters. the astro is a solid 10 centimeters loaded at the v w i. d. 3. the comparatively long over hanks give it a sporty if you're the just the smallest other electrical possibly electric cos the astro electric has the

possibility to shift into a recuperation mode that will then cause the call to break. if you take your foot off the accelerator that way you could do one pedal drive if you plan to have a little bit or are aware of what's happening in front of you. one thing i missed the. busy is that you can adjust the strength of recuperation with all the costs. you will have 123, or maybe even 4 levels. and here there is only yes or no the, the thing i don't really like about the current generation us draw a me indicate a sound because it sounds like someone is playing the drums with an empty plastic bottle. at least that's what it sounds like to me. i mean listen

not exactly a fan of that. the as through, like shrink. little 1st be available in this 40 g s line for the starting price of just over 45000 euros in germany. this is my favorite view off then you astray electric, the back look so good, striking sporty. i really like it. and even though the car has some mine, no flaws in some details. but complete package was able to convince me i like this car and what's even better about it? this car will become available as a station wagon, a purely electric station wagon station wagon lover. i have to say this is what we need. we have almost none of these on the market. i would that in mind, i would say the astra electric has very good changes of the coming just as huge of

his success as the predecessor swore to some of the astro electric is a very good looking car with a decent range comfortable seats. and lots of standard equipment, but the maximum $100.00 kilowatt charging fixed recuperation level and lack of power, leave you wanting more in the future over plants, the launch cheaper entry level versions of the astro electric enjoy the royd and see you next time on risk. the,

the, the 1st, the police search this robot will be caring for the elderly but it has a lot to learn before it gets to that point. so this machine operates with a use of a pride physics. thanks to an unusual role model. 30

minutes on d w, we can keep doing what we're doing. we need to become a sustainable as possible. and that's why the green revolution was absolutely necessary. european agriculture is facing major challenges. the future is being determined. now. you have revealed the last talk in all series of 75 minutes on d, w. american. how many portion of lots of turn out in the world right now? climate change, the story. this is much less the way from just one week. how much was going to really get we still have time to act. i'm going

a success subscriber for moving, like guardians of truth. my name's junk and and i have paid almost every price of being enjoying this in a country like turkey's taking all the powers that be the risk every thing they want to me and they try many times during doing dar s activist journalist and politicians living and anxiety, what drives them? it's too much on my shoulders, but i have to hold this way because i'm responsible for the 2 shall fall, a contract for the people far behind the past. the courageous effort against corruption and political crimes.

in our series guardians of truth watching on youtube dw documentary, the this is the don't even use life from the the in talking gives it's backing through ukraine and nasal meeting with your branding and president flooded me. so landscape president, richard. tiny, i've had a one says ukraine deserves membership in the lines, but it's honestly if he'll agree to sweet and joining when they say meets next week the class, the bones causing contract.