the next test chamber is bone dry and it s hot forty degrees this is one of two conditioning chambers that are mainly used to prepare the vehicles for testing either by heating them up or cooling them down all kinds of extreme weather can now be found here in cologne side by side. you know i mean i guess even says it s only a few steps from the tropics to the depths of winter here it s now minus twelve degrees if you go down to minus forty if needed and ford can make it snow and ten different weights snyder laughs. because one center can simulate the coldest august and highest place in western europe the engineers contest classic winter problems even in the height of summer. good tests but you know citizenship here s measure how much snow enters the interior when someone opens the
door in these conditions and whether the electric meter is still open and close despite the cold and the car battery is also tested to see how it copes with b. s temperatures of the medieval templates once that s. before and whether a factory cost seventy million euros to build it s big enough for engineers to work on ten cars that any one time. six. seasons and the calendar and our history here in cologne and i ford can now set the weather that whatever it once. the c h three has made a handsome addition to monsters range of models there s some compact crossover s.u.v. his showroom fours in mid twenty fifteen after one year on the market it had taken
sixty will be the last will vote to offer a diesel option to plug in hybrids provide between two hundred fifty and two hundred eighty seven kilowatts and are likely to put further pressure on diesel sales to. be of that size the journalist in his pay three is in the german city of cologne today where food is going to show us it s a new test senator. ford s cutting edge whether factory is designed to test vehicles in all kinds of conditions we start out and the high altitude laps it can create wind speeds of up to two hundred fifty kilometers an hour it can also simulate the air pressure founded altitudes of up to five thousand two hundred meters higher than western europe s highest mountain. it s a global. first for the industry. here the engineers can test how brake