they are not many purely electric, luxurious su, ethan, they're on the market right now, and this is the newest one, the audi, q 8 e tron. but can it be the mercedes e q s s u, v, and the like? we will find out right now. welcome to read the entry level audi q e tron is powered by a $250.00 kilowatt motor. while the s q a sport back version we tested, gets plenty of grunt from it's 370 kilowatt motor. a general driving impression in the q 8 e drawn is a really smooth then. i mean, audi cannot afford to do mistakes in this car because this is the flagship model. so you have to be smooth, but it also asked to be quite sporty since that were driving the asp version. that all so features a lot of power and you will want to feel that when you're driving and curves, you wanted to accelerate really due and you want to have a very nice handling and the car features all of this what i especially like the fact that it is very silent on the interior. of course, i can only compare it with what i remember, but the q s s u, v was not any more silent, neither was land rover's range rover. what i do have to admit though, is that the e q s. s u v and the land rover range rover felt a little more spacious right here. you feel comfortable that it's not like you would miss space, but it could be a little more spacious. the sporty aspect of the eighty's on deniva, especially if you put the pedal to the metal, it will make the dash from 0 to a 100 kilometers an hour in. busy for an off seconds, and that feels really good and he can go up to a top speed of 210 kilometers an hour, which is also quite good for a purely electric car. in the exterior design of the q 8, now blends much more harmoniously to the our model family with a new honeycomb grill. and when it comes to charging for convenience is king right here. this side you will find the charging port. he simply press the button, it full stone electrically, and then you can plug it in fast charging, no problem whatsoever, but for luxurious cause, you need even more. and that's why on this side, there is another charging port. you can open it electrically as well, but you have to say this one is not made for foss charging, so it's mainly for your wall books at home. but you can choose the side, and that is a luxurious feature, i think is pretty nice. ah, of course, what you also need fall a maximum feeling of luxury on these self leveling badges that will stop in horizontal manner. no matter how you stop the car. ah, comparing the design of their cars, i have to say the roundish falls of the e q. s s u v were not exactly appealing to me and the land rover with its flat surfaces. not exact be there, but this car is very nice. i like it. the only thing i would wish for is the black package, because that one is available for all versions and that will mean that what is silver, right? he and also the grill will be in a black finish, which would look way more aggressive way sportier. the quality inside the eskew h cabin remains unchanged with audis characteristic use of high quality material. of course, a lot of controls do work mainly via a touch screen. and the touch pad requires a bit more forced to use, but at least this prevents accidental in place. the car also has a range of up market features you'd expect, including leather upholstery and heated front and rear seats. first, a decent amount of food space should you want to do a road trip in? ah, audi has also adjusted the version line up. so the q at each one is only available in 3 different versions. the advanced line, which unlike the name suggests, is the entry level version, the s line and the one we're driving here. the ask you 8, so the sporty version ah thing i don't like at all the digital mirror because you will look outside then you will find that small thing. you will look down, you will find the picture. and that picture also looks different than what you're used to in the regular mirror. but don't worry, the digital side view mirrors always optional. so even if you get the ask you. busy you will always find regular mirror. now let's take a look at what drives the motor of the queueing. let's talk about the battery for a 2nd. there are 2 different versions, 95 kilowatt hour, and that is the small one. and 114 kilowatt hours. but only did not simply put in big batteries. they also worked on cell chemistry and made the south 20 percent more dense. so they take less space for the same amount of energy. those aren't the only changes, though. already also work on the aerodynamics and what's especially interesting is the on the body because they put little plate along with other measures and that help direct the flow of air that way. they reduce the direct coefficient and that helps driving longer distances. i, with all the aspects of that, i'm all the tweaked, what the new q a eat on coming from its predecessor. they increase the range of the car by between 32 and 44 percent, which is huge amount in addition to the sport back version, we tested the q 80 tron is also available as a classic s u v with a steeper sloping rear the q 8 e drawn is a very luxurious car in the interior, you can tell it everything is high quality. when you drive it is free, it's really smooth. it's of very, i thrive all in all the s q 80 tron looks better as in some ways more capable than the mercedes in q s s u, v. or land rover range rover. although it loses out to them in terms of range in space. but when it comes to pricing, it's likely to leave the competition far behind. even by french standards, belittle is a special vacation destination. and now a laboratory of innovation for going carbon neutral, incorporating the wind sun and the car industry, tourism and individual mobility. here off the coast to brittany, an array of forward thinking individuals are experimenting with sustainable energy generation. but the transition is not all smooth sailing. one dramatic visual change could be wind farms affecting the seascape, made famous by impressionist painter clothes, monet in 1886 who the vocal, the needles of records on our iconic. and imagine having those turbines behind you in the sea. awful, re did your armor or sustainability and don't cause accidents like intro noble down or what does that have to do with hold monet? he's long gone and won't be painting those pictures again. it was collected on personal and their value won't go down just because of a few terabytes. i don't think it's ever be filler. levin elders, hipaa, john, who's ever, we have a magnificent, you have cable from bay, but our guests won't like it if there is suddenly wind turbines in the way, we're sure. the islands, 1st sustainable ventures into electron mobility actually began 20 years ago. little wonder that french car make out i know, picked the spot to set up a pilot project via it's mobilized subsidiary. a smart energy cycle was installed in the vacation village, customized to the surroundings, an equal green. this is a micro grid based on 4 pillars. first, these solar panels convert the sunlight into electricity. yeah. the solar energy is conserved by 2nd life batteries. discarded units taken from e cars that still have sufficient capacity for stationary storage. off edwina he so there are solar energy is lost if it's not used in real time. these batteries make it possible to store solar power to be fed into the grid for when it's actually need it. it be made to home or unit. now human normal the system also includes prototypes of e cars that can be charged up by directionally doing take them with this as a rental. zoe with a modified charger. i do so ok. he don't have what you under fitz, enables his door, electrical energy needs to be faded back into the granular on demand. not under him don't there her, there low his or her voice on the will. unfortunately with one there is also a sophisticated computer program involved. it controls the facilities various components in a way that ensures maximum efficiency when it comes to the solar energy available for the requirements of the picturesque vacation village. see can put forth co purple for from you can set up a micro grid like this anywhere on even with major industrial complexes, there are no limits. what we're doing here melisha can be replicated at various places around the city. i really think he knows he knows nothing. the the microgrids are a sound solution for an island covered, and cultural heritage says set up on the arc. he proudly points out some of belial, best known landmarks. the subject of several books written by the local historian. as it grew, you that the needle rocks of pork torn formed by the sea. in the 6 weeks close, money spent on bill you? he painted around, $40.00 pictures and all $39.00 to be precisely the possibility. ah no golf off. no clue. the big light house is our mountain volume. it's 70 meters tall. so which is enough? cbs turbines are $180.00 or 200 meters tall. now we don't want that. not all. all saw is on of the book. but most islanders do accept a micro grid like right now is local businessman, gail, good me is among those impressed with the benefits i found there. i think it's an interesting project also because it raises awareness of a question. we should all be asking ourselves and where does my energy come from resembling out? it gives me as the spokesman of a movement, whose adherents are convinced that reducing energy consumption is the most sustainable option out there. most of the cars in his rental fleet or of course electric. but he sees far more scope for change. your hood all we're doing, we don't protect the planet by driving e, cause we need to restrict our consumption. what there's nothing especially our energy consumption, is that consumers from put in if we can't say in the future, i'll replace the fossil or nuclear energy. i've used my by consuming the equivalent in sustainable energy is sure the denounces for pseudo when that doesn't work for ology rental is through the nausea just we need to increase the proportion of renewables for while at the same time cutting consumption. look, montela brown is to the now showing, rambo hydro 2nd semester. it's an approach that the mayor of the islands biggest community, la, paling agrees with thanks to him. the police are now also going electric. most of the vehicles used by the local authorities had been replaced with e varieties. psychos boy, it's a better fit for our imaging. the best energies, the kind that doesn't have to be produced and could you fall, our efforts are focused on saving, enter. she wherever we can, it is equal to median elsie. the mayor previously had the island clinic's fleet of vehicles turned electric to us. they insure at home care for the $5000.00 residents across an 87 square kilometer area. but that's all old news for the director of the hospital. lead, almost out to believe has always been a laboratory for all kinds of innovations in the islands characteristics mean we have to be a step ahead tied on levels. we're already making substantial use of drones for transferring blood supplies. for example, i see with see i'm super tech and we don't use environmentally harmful ship transportation. hosp elder deposited some. ah, the tourist sector now also feature sustainable options. instead of taking the big energy gossling diesel, ferries, visitors have the alternative of soft transportation on sale boats with a little bit of unfairly blue. before we talk about bio gases, we're focusing on an energy that's free and is available 70 or 80 percent of the time if it is when we have to reduce our consumption, especially in transportation, was only now this year. and we can do that simply by using sale power office in warner to only one journalist still then the nerve is also committed to the fight to lower energy consumption. she only drives an e car when she has heavy cargo to get from a to b. for her saving energy is a way of life fit her revenues, she could tula, it's a hall general rather look, shall also me more learning to consume less without having a poorer quality of life. vain warm young. so a concept that will be indispensable in the future. absolutely modern disposable thir also some highly imaginative ways of saving energy on belittle the artists at this workshop create me looking sculptures, all fashioned from raw materials that their owners no longer wanted for like your bill. i collect all kinds of scrap and trash and use my imagination, return what i find into something new form up all fortunate her not imaginary poor on the own, missouri. i do my bid for the environment by recycling waste, that normally it's extremely costly. on 1000000000, clinton was short been the waste is put in containers. taken by boat to the mainland and disposed of miracles, we created different cycle by which the islands trash is recycled and we appreciated is not true to revolt into a jesus royalty. the island has a range of different initiatives fighting for sustainability in their own way. what they all agree on is the most harmful factor for the island with all their wilson, when they're having limited resources, means we have to be particularly careful with tourism when it comes to lowering consumption to we there's far too much energy being used during the summer to suppose from brooklyn to dinner canal he was a mere z on the day continued to his me or toilet it says it's hell here in the summer, all the cars and all the people coming to the island. so if it's hot shipper, i'm worried to believe the farmers and fishermen used to be the backbone. if the economy had presided, be sure how the plan, everything was turned on its head to la budgetary, and now tourism is dictating things. she said, toby, but that's wrong. and also to everything's gotten too expensive, but scope due to pressure. ah, we like to assume that the masses of tourists to arrive in the peak vacation period are huge, strain on our resources. why don't fully this is also worth of extending the season so that the stream of tourists isn't concentrated on july and august, august. and this is where that i know project could prove invaluable. the resulting dramatic drop in energy costs means that loss viens can now afford to heat her bungalows. after the summer. port angeles is on said, we're going to extend our season when you say to wash you. but this year will be closing on september 18th, and next year we'll try to stay open a lot longer than a pretax, pasco, set any safety immune from soon. fact with the system. now up and running, we've seen our energy bell cut in half mitigate. glass isn't on it. in another sign of progress, you can already tour the islands many sites of cultural interest with the help of the solar power sourced from the micro grid. here where history and old traditions meet modern developments, there are creative ideas galore for ensuring a sustainable future. the sample is in a legendary legacy of cloud monee and the needle rocks of pork, a toss issue. and of course that history is used for tourist activity, but the main attraction of value is an island becoming an exciting pilot project. talk. we've got it all here. the wind up, the sun, bonnasoli, acoya tribble abroad. well, could become a lovely laboratory to ski a kind of experimental avant garde for energy generation on belly, apple. you shonda nel gino's nauseous, rhonda shoals as it hands towards a new age of energy use. the aptly named belial or beautiful island boasts a remarkably diverse approach. rich with visionary ideas and not short on controversy. but where would we be energy wise? if we didn't have the occasional bit of friction, of the sustainable variety, of course, ah, if you want more red, check out our youtube channel. if you want regular features about new cars and car culture and about mobility around the world, read can make you very happy. vintage classics and future tech or just some of the exciting content waiting for you. subscribe to us at youtube slash dw. read and you'll always be up to speed. mm. mm hm. you're right in a d i y. hell, claim racer from bosnia herzegovina. well young kid with veteran and his ultra customized vw jetta. well, it's like a child to me like a family member who is better and is a died in the will. racing driver with a preference for haley to rate time to get an up close and personal look at his jetta. are you ready? mm. that just think leads, bumpy right. for our intrepid reporter is the result of some meticulous work. we visit bedroom at his workshop in to live in north eastern bosnia. the car mechanic spent 3 years tinkering away on his pride and joy wasn't really. it's like a child to me that a family member drunk with veteran has plenty of other cars to work on. but his true passion and calling d w base to re st. kaiser. his jetta is a bosnian pocket rocket with all manner of extra features. oh, it comes with 4 injectors for to the exhaust is for into one the loop. and these are recent cam shafts rigorously from the cartoon. okay. so also on board is a fire extinguishing system safety 1st, especially in motor sports drugs. this is not to if there's a fire, it activates and puts out the flames it. well, there are also 4 more nozzles inside the car, alongside the electrical system. it pulls the electric thanks a lot and that's the safety system with the veterans. love of fast cars began when he was just a lad. his father was a successful racing driver in what was then yugoslavia, but his undying love for v w came a bite because of a different model because when he well, i've loved the gulf mark once since i was a kid to friend of mine had one but gti d, w, that's one. the love again, you told me so i like the design doesn't with which i decided that when i grew up, i buy myself a gulf mark one and make my own racing car and they come in to this day. it's remains the same stuff. faqua rushed roof roster in this jetta has great visibility . b, w. my connect plus it has the features that make it easy to turn into a race car. do i go? vedrine bought his prize jetta in sarajevo and hasn't looked back fit. his only regret is this lack of development in recent years. i mean, it's not that big a seen, but we do have the occasional meet. i'll give you my right to you and i talked to gina so soon on. the situation with sponsors isn't great for probably him as the problem is a decreasing interest in racing sub g. it's popularity is limited to be either called our people prefer watching soccer or basketball or not sushi lunch would mild caution. but it was about the need for speed. oh test drive time, which means taking veterans jetta back out onto the track on an old air field. mm. smooth me though with the official moral front tongue driving conditions as ever as the sun goes dive ah . in most cases we do the start, isn't that important that you know, as it's mostly uphill at 1st at scale, kenichi. so it's, you know, as archie sort of start is rarely good and tends to be a bit, you know, weaker to go, but on the straights you make up the time you lost at the start lobby. oh, so it's not that crucial really was actually in a village. this is will be stopped. oh, as for the jettas performance, ah, the car is what it is. the track is terrible. the surface is no good. he's dying the moment, but we've been able to do a few laps to show you the car and that magic feeling. ultimately, the jetta defies the terrain to deliver. the magic and veteran is proud of. his sipped up little razor out. i told it's a great car produced out of love and that's what matters cg, that is i chose the jettas because we couldn't find a better basis than the gulf mark one. i'll be a jet that we're glad to have our super jetta, which we've really grown to love just to out. which one of you stay cheered for automotive love stories and more on the next episode of rabbin with ah, with ah, a with this week the 7 to 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