When grown men screaming like little kids have can only be about because these are my colleagues on a special assignment traveling across europe electric the tools i think a lot of fun with it hello welcome to made in germany which is today completely devoted to electric cars this summer we sent out our reporters of oman and agast to test drive half a dozen of them from cheap production models to High Performance prototypes we wanted to find out. Really the future of individual mobility and how far away is that future anyway first ill feel as reporters take you to italy that electric comic. As made a name for itself with also a live shot sees that helped save power from that its on to switzerland where they had an intense encounter with a vehicle that accelerates foster than any other car in the world and its made by. Christiane last year we drove across germany in various electric cars now were touring europe and it all feels very familiar once again its hot thirty eight degrees were in italy once again the car is a bit wonky its electric but whatever. We wanted to start off small. Definitely small we had to really cozy up despite the heat and we still have switzerland austria norway head of us. So how will i cope. But first we are in italy in a media romagna we have a two seater vehicle manufactured by touch saudi prices for this car start at twenty thousand euros they are assembled in the town of. This plant has been building electric cars for eleven years its a world away from the gasoline guzzling sports cars that italians are known for. We have this one of the names of. A few. We have talked sorry exactly what is the special thing about atari first of all the three is supplier of many of the brands you mention as a let me know funding so this is one of the interesting facts and i think that unique fact about the saudis the only producer of electric cars in italy and by cars i mean cars so i wanted to take three for the electric why do i need a medium and a car like this because one keep calling the three car is the lightness i tell you why if you want to have lets say long range you need to have many batteries you sell but if the car is very light you need less better is then you need less time to charge and the charge is gusting less money so this is our key point somewhere idea of an electric car like first of all. The car weighs just seven hundred kilos and has a range of two hundred kilometers. So i made her climb one meter eighty five thats over six feet and for me the cars definitely a bit small its quite a rough ride him i think the suspension is not quite right its more like a racing car and it sounds like a washing machine. Song to so. Give us much. Hope its anyone with an electric car in italy will probably need to charge it at home the entire country has just seven hundred public charging stations. Where. The government long neglected to expand the network. That you do it is not good at the moment but there are good plans for an improvement to what youre coming from nearly as he wrote yes so is there any country in europe which is worse and worse than here i dunno i dunno honestly. Its difficult being more worse than here honestly but i know that the government to stay connection to make it better. And i want to try and go for a time horizon would it be i think. Twenty twenty would be probably a while things would be different. There are good plans and you know so yes in the heart its acceptable for an assessment of what the drama say of row two thousand and twenty is a magic year well lets see our. Next stop is the swiss alps. Were driving a nissen leaf one of the worlds top selling a lecture because. The car just glides along its totally quiet to go or so all electric and like a little dream on the strikers and climbs. The japanese car can go nearly two hundred kilometers on one charge. But it cant keep pace with this one an electric racing car which clocks zero to one hundred kilometers an hour in one and a half seconds even a formula one car is slow by comparison sadly were not allowed to take it for a spare. Were meeting students from the e. T. H. In zero eight who hold the world record for acceleration. Every year students at the university build a new electric racing car. Without fear most of all. This for a motors and the motors are inside the wheels you can see theyre very small but each has fifty horsepower lecithin so we have two hundred horsepower overall for a bit more actually in the snare and it went by and get just one hundred seventy kilos its like it could be pretty fast yeah super thats the goal to accelerate as fast as possible snell of a slowing of live off in the formula student racing series budding engineers from all over the world compete for the title there are five hundred teams in all four years now the e. T. H. Europe team has been a leading contender. It at that. We continue our journey happy to be behind the wheel again. Were heading to the town of lyons dying north of zero. The keyboards company has been developing electric commercial vehicles here since one thousand nine hundred one it has over eleven thousand vehicles on the road worldwide its main customers are delivery firms such as the swiss and german Postal Services. Martin keyboards who founded the company now getting choirs from all over the world. These three wheelers will soon be delivering letters in norway so why have a special interest from the Postal Services because. We can help them cut costs for the vehicles accelerate much faster and they also start much faster than conventional vehicles. But each postal worker can save eight seconds per stop off. If that doesnt sound like much but if you think they make six hundred to a thousand stops a day then it soon adds up to a considerable amount all for people and then theres that the all electric roadster that keyboard has developed to have fun with but it comes at a price. Right for function calls if it costs thirty six thousand swiss francs it could but you can also buy it as a kid and assemble it yourself in your living room. Then it costs just twenty seven thousand dollars. And with you know the wall out of my living room to get the car out. All the individual components will be easy to take in but afterwards you will need to build again yes. Ive been building electric cars for twenty five years and most have been practical oneself but i just long to build one thats all about pleasure and nothing else from kong i. Hate it. When you have it but it drives really well there are no bells and whistles inside power steering nothing on. The road holding is great its a lot of fun you can take the bends really france wrong its just a bit windy. What about to feel as electric pine is is we with me here in the studio. Thanks for joining me come on that look like a lot of fun do you call that work i mean you could see we had a blast driving that electric roadster that was just awesome but imagine you asking and me and the two of us driving in an electric car for two weeks almost ten hours a day and then we try to save some energy by turning off the radio in the ac so thats called an interesting experience and to be honest i think you often he was always a bit afraid of me driving around is that it like the hat by the weather is very classic thing really suited you very well. You went all over europe as you said two weeks what was the biggest challenge or what were the Biggest Challenges on that trip i think it always came down to the charging because if you have a built in Navigation System which has way to go its very easy but sometimes we didnt have that so we always had to like check the smartphones wait to get the next charging station then you come to a charging station and you realize theres another car and sometimes we havent seen it now in italy but it happened we came to the charging station and it was broken and eleven city of imola was was down to like two more charging stations and so if you if youre down for like ten percent or less Battery Charge you really hope that the next charging station is going to work what if it doesnt work if you are of juice youre out of juice what it would what would you do call the chow truck i dont know never happened to us so but thats the only choice i guess. We saw in that report the delivery the company that makes delivery vans briefly come Delivery Companies be the trailblazers for eve ability i think weve seen that because you can you can save a lot of time by using electric cars and for example the German Postal Service the dutch of pasta they are already using two thousand five hundred electric cars and theyre saving money by using those cars and it works there they Just Announced they want to build even bigger delivery cars and buyers from the outside they want to use those cars too were going to have another in a moment what was the next destination we went to. Austria next ok and then a Small Company is taking on one of the biggest problems facing the electra mobility sector limited range a firm of the city of lens has been making big leaps and terms of battery capacity. Our electric adventure continues we were in linz austria where theres a revolution going on in the battery industry. These internet info became of a double converted into an electric car by the kaiser. And its not just a pleasure to drive it has tremendous range thats because the firm gets much more out of the batteries than a manufacturer lets take a look at this one. Guys will build their battery factory from the ground up the firms just three years old but car makers are already driving huge demand for their technology. But the battery like this contains five thousand cells what makes this system so special is the Connection Technology and the individual cells are connected to each other on their own or done but so you only get maximum power when theyre connected. And what makes it ingenious is how it minimizes electrical resistance because theres always a loss with each cell contact we have a special process for dealing with this resistance issue probably one of the best on the market ok we can get ten percent more capacity than most of our competitors who also use cylindrical cells. Thatll make electric vehicles more attractive and having more electric cars on the road could help Reach International climate targets by twenty fifty the sureness but the great thing is todays Battery Technology gives us a solution we can implement now of course and see ten twenty thirty years will likely have Different Technology thats even better and requires fewer resources that we have to start now otherwise we wont get there by twenty fifth thats the main thing were concerned about because we want to be able to tell the next generation that at least we tried. Its ok here we go im so excited. Mockers cries and his brothers started as hobbyists just tinkering around in a garage they wanted to prove that any car can be transformed into an electric vehicle with the right Battery Technology in the project disorganize weve kept the cars original seven speed dual clutch transmission electric motors been adapted so you can shift gears and its still really fun to accelerate. Into fifty one hundred fifty six to two hundred and youre always in the optimal gear from i think thats a fun its fun but its also scary its really sporty. Fun as well that company that we just saw makes batteries that are ten percent more efficient than average batteries that amount to twenty kilometers more on a charge that somebody a breakthrough is it i think is not about the twenty kilometers i think its about showing that more is possible for example these guys from austria they just built their company a couple of years ago and they dont have a huge factory they dont have like the best engineers in the world theyre just clever has a very vented a clever way to meet them thats what they did the Car Manufacturers the big ones theyre lining up right now to get hands on their technology and i think thats what we have seen so many times in europe is that sometimes in Small Companies its backyard mechanics and even students like in switzerland who are trying to drive the mobility in your so you reckon you me youve seen a lot now youve done it last year across germany this year across europe is now the right time to bet on electric cars. I think the cars are getting cheaper and cheaper thats what it can see right now and with countries like u. K. And france announcing they want to ban petrol driven cars and diesel cars i think we will see more and more cars maybe even much sooner as we expected but the first generations of car drivers they they they are very used to plug in their their cars at home but i think we need to total new infrastructure charging infrastructure especially so we need Public Parking lots where you can charge your car we need even charging spots at workplaces and maybe hotels faders and train stations so it becomes much easier to to drive an electric car because you can easier charge your car that will take years i mean this kind of infrastructure the government needs to be involved Companies Like budget for example who i dont think we have some charging stations and no i dont know so little this this will take some time. It will take a lot of time i think and i think it will be a mixture of the government doing stuff and private companies doing stuff and well see it later no way baybay really trying to change everything and theyre really fast and it really advanced so i think its doable but i think you need the customers to buy the cars are you any car convert now so we honest i never had a car in my whole life so theres nothing to convert from you know so i prefer riding my bicycle but i think if i would go for a car right now i think i would take maybe and within the next one or two years i would go for an electric one because its faster its greener and you can listen to your Favorite Music because its so quiet thats true thank you very much gentlemen our electric pioneer. The next leg of their road trip begins with a sharp turn to the north to no way the scandinavian country is the final destination for good reason it has the most advanced infrastructure in europe and the capital oslo christian and you often climbed into the cockpit of a tesla took them on a long circular journey through stunning landscapes boss you wouldnt want to run out of juice up there in the mountains. Were now in norway and miss time were driving that test. We have quite a challenge ahead to drive fifteen hundred kilometers crosscountry beginning with a trip to the mountains. Norway is ahead of its time one in five cars on the roads here are fully electric. The evening before we were in the capital where we picked up our rental car. Norway is one of the most important markets worldwide for american luxury carmaker tesla. We headed straight to a car park with dozens of charging stations we do range to meet peter hogg militant from norways electric Vehicle Association what do we have to do to get them over to indra well you know you have the pollute the pace principle in the car tax system if you buy a car with high emissions you have to pay a very high tax when you buy it but for say one machine cars there are several tax so this means that the cars are more affordable actually to buy and similar polluting car was a very expensive to build up all the charging stations all over norway while an environmental policy is expensive and especially when you are the first movers you have to try and i are. To make it work. But if if we can do something on the global level on climate issues then we really had a big effect for the money we spent. We contacted other electric vehicle drivers via the internet and arranged to talk to the house that family had a charging station. Theyre off on holiday to the low for ten islands a three thousand kilometer round trip its the first time theyve done this kind of distance in the electric car wouldnt it be so much easier for you to just take a gas turbine car. Theres a slow. Oh you stepped on the accelerator test. Yes i did yes it was there false there are getting so much better now year by year that its just a matter of time before you dont have any use for. Fossil fuels ok thanks to have a safe trip of your family thank you but. We begin our ascent into the mountains the plan is to drive over norways famous can pass theres not a soul about and no charging station to be seen far and wide. To tesla has a range of three hundred fifty kilometers we wonder if that still applies when youre driving up steep hills. By the time you reach the top of the past battery is half empty. Or. Anyone can go downhill all we have to do is roll and brake a lot and then well recoup lots of energy thats the unique thing about electric vehicles the regenerative braking system the battery shows one hundred eighty four kilometers left our destination is one hundred fifty seven kilometers away so we could make a perfect landing. But can we trust the g. P. S. Not everything it says is correct we suddenly find our path blocked by water. Luckily theres a ferry im almost out of juice and we still have a way to go and it could get tight for. The next surprise because were driving aleck trick car we dont have to pay for the ferry. Finding the next charging station is always the big challenge when youre driving electric car tesla set up its own network of charging points and were relying on battery but were not seeing anything yet. The Battery Charges dropped to a critical level where is the next charging station. I see it. The moment pop i only have a few percent battery left hopefully the super charger will solve the problem. Of the truth. And there we go. Good its gone green ladan itll take about an hour to charge because its almost empty we hardly had any Battery Power left at all almost zero what. On earth quantum on the i thought so in the meantime we could explore the place whats it called sundown or maybe theyll have a nice fish roll here fish which. Then its on to the city of bag and the last stage of our journey. No one has shown us the driving long distances with an electric. Can walk weve course a glimpse of what the future could look like but many other countries will need to follow suit in the coming years. Europe does have enough pioneering engineers to make it one as weve discovered on our trip. So you know i guess i wasnt. Always great with you christiane even in italy italian that was a bit tricky on the cars for small but in norway we had a great car and enough charging stations. 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