formula e is the electric equivalent of formula 1 and alasdair keane has been to le mans in france toissan team to see how they're notjust pushing batteries to their limit, but they're also tracking their brains to try and improve performance. this is sport pushing innovation in electric vehicles to the limit. the best championship in the world, i would call it, and the racing makes it extremely exciting cos you have a lot of energy management cos, of course, you start the race with the battery you have. you just don't make it to the end — you need to recharge over 40% of your battery to reach the end of the race. that makes the racing extremely exciting cos, you know, you have to manage your energy, at the same time try to keep position orfight for position. so, honestly, the championship and the level of drivers is extremely high and the room of mistakes, it's extremely slim. but with 17 races in cities all over the world, racing fast takes its toll on the drivers. thejet lag is difficult cos you go from mexico to saudi arabia to india and then cape town. you're constantly travellin

plans are under way to turn it into a tech hub and alasdair keane has been airside.o the world, transporting millions of passengers every year to and from the german capital until demand finally outgrew what its �*70s chic could offer. when berlin's tegel airport closed in 2020, there was one big question — what to do with such a huge site? the answer — a space for technology companies, a university and even the homes of the future. let's go and take a look. where better to start a tour than the highest spot? tell us about tegel airport. well, yeah, it's a true panoramic experience. what we can see really well from up here is actually the former orange cargo hold and that the former workshops where we have that first community of start—ups already here. they do autonomous driving, all sorts of urban tech innovations, yeah, they really give the space a sense of what it feels like when we actually have a community here. the architecture here is quite iconic. the plan is to keep a lot of it? absolutely. so, this is one of the main endeavours, really, of the site — to ke

plans are under way to turn it into a tech hub and alasdair keane has been airside.ay to the world, transporting millions of passengers every year to and from the german capital until demand finally outgrew what its �*70s chic could offer. when berlin's tegel airport closed in 2020, there was one big question — what to do with such a huge site? the answer — a space for technology companies, a university and even the homes of the future. let's go and take a look. where better to start a tour than the highest spot? tell us about tegel airport. well, yeah, it's a true panoramic experience. what we can see really well from up here is actually the former orange cargo hold and that the former workshops where we have that first community of start—ups already here. they do autonomous driving, all sorts of urban tech innovations, yeah, they really give the space a sense of what it feels like when we actually have a community here. the architecture here is quite iconic. the plan is to keep a lot of it? absolutely. so, this is one of the main endeavours, really, of the site — t

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