motor boats use fuel that create greenhouse gases. they can leak petrol and they can cause noise pollution. so, i m here to take a look at some electric boats that aim to overcome these problems, including one that doesn t cut through the waves, but glides above them. right, i m following you. yes, come. under this 25 foot craft is a wing for hydroplaning and sensors that collect hundreds of data points every second. you ll have to take the passenger seat first. 0k. and then we ll let you drive. we need to stabilise it, much like a fighterjet. then we feel how we re oriented, where we are in the world, and then about 100 times per second, we are adjustable by twisting it and changing the angle to keep stable. this is where it gets exciting. let s go.
like an electric car. you want to try it? i d love to. ok, let s do it. apparently this is easy and when i raced a tas lacked a little while ago and beat a race driver that was easier than i was expecting so let s do this. seat belts on, everybody! i took to this like a duck to water. well, after a few big unplanned splashes. that feels faster than you went. pull it down a bit. i m heading for the big waves. whoa whoa! that was amazing! good work! i barely felt those. a very different experience to our producer s boat. thank you for the warning! it s a leader amongst its electric peers, but i do wonder if prices
and, basically, that happens every day. in the summer in the netherlands, you wouldn t have to charge for months if you do just your commute. really! i m from the uk i know what you re talking about, yeah. yeah. and, basically, uk and the netherlands are the worst i%, right? it will get a lot better when you go to south europe. why did you set up a company here, then, and not in the sahara? because we love the sun because we see it so less. actually, the netherlands is a european leader in solar power, getting as much as i7% of its energy from the sun. lexis a bit of a world leader too. in 2012, he co founded the team that went on to win the solar challenge cruiser race across the australian outback four times in a row. unsurprisingly, the design of lightyear one is somewhat more conventional. now, solar cells are getting better and better at turning sunlight into electricity,
of rain pushing east and also lots of low cloud out towards the west and pantry outbreaks of rain but toward central and southern england, dry and sunny spells, and temperatures could rise as high as 27 and a warm muggy feel. this is the position of the rain on wednesday and the weather front pushes south and east and towards the north and west we always have fresh feeling conditions but the warmer feeling air sticks with us in southern and eastern areas of the uk and the weather front is also out and the weather front is also out and temperatures to get a size 28 or 29 celsius in parts of east anglia. the weather front, although 29 celsius in parts of east anglia. the weatherfront, although it 29 celsius in parts of east anglia. the weather front, although it is fizzling out, it could pep up as we head through thursday, especially on thursday night bringing much needed heavy, thundery downpours maybe to east anglia and the south east of england, so there could be some high rainfall to
yes, this is a solar powered car, and they call it lightyear one. the first production model will be going on sale this summer. its five square metres of solar panels come in narrow sections that better curve around the body and also mean that if it s parked partly in the shade, the sections that are in the sun still work at full capacity. but even though the battery can take you 440 miles on a single charge, a day s worth of sunlight will only provide about 45 miles of that. the rest still has to come from plugging it in. however, 45 miles might be enough to get you to work and back. you can fast charge it using a normal charger, but the solar panel will recharge your commute every day. so, basically, when you put it outside of your office space, then it recharges itself, and when you get back, the car is full again.