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 starting from around $300,000 might stall adoption, especially when similar sized motorboats can still travel several
electric boats better connected. hey! hello. nice boat. thank you, thank you. she s a beauty. i believe you have something to give me before we get on board. i have. so, you will be able to start the boat with this one. garmin s gps and vitals tracking smartwatch comes with added nautical functions. man overboard on, unlocked. and then if you fall in, then it stops. now, this won t be as energy efficient as hydroplaning, but it s still powerful. in four seconds, we will be up well above 30 knots, so everyone needs to hold on. is everyone ready? yes. give her everything you got. just full throttle. laughter. yep, i m flooring it. it s similar to candela in cost and top speeds, but can cruise slowly for double the time.
laughter. yep, i m flooring it. it s similar to candela in cost and top speeds, but can cruise slowly for double the time. as it sails, the vessel collects 150 data points each second. everything is shared back to h0 to optimise performance, but with private info being beamed straight from my wrist, i was curious about security. technically, you can hack the pentagon, right? so, you can probably hack our boat, if you re that good, but we have the same kind of security layer as any car company. just like connected cars share data to improve urban spaces, smart boats could help local authorities improve life at sea. so, this is our r&d lab. so, this information like water quality and water temperature. mm hm.
and it s not the aerodynamic design that makes it look like a future car from the 1950s, although that is important, too. no, look closer at that shiny finish, and you ll see that it s not paint. the entire thing is covered in solar panels, solar panels on the bonnet, solar panels on the roof, solar panels instead of a back window. 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. 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. 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. 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. lex is 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 i