coming up in about ten minutes, we have newswatch. first, he is click. —— here's. another day, another mission for click�*s ever—so—slightly secret agent 00. oh, my goodness! it is lara lewington! greetings, l! sorry i'm late — there was a queue. nice wheels, though! thanks. one problem is i have borrowed this car and i have got it rather dirty, so do you have that eco—friendly spray thing i could borrow, please? yes. think of all that water that you would usually use. this nano solution cleans, waxes and polishes in one go. just need a bit of elbow grease. admittedly, the car was not that dirty to start with so it may have been a less pleasant job if there was lots to scrub off. around 2—3 litres of nano solution are needed per vehicle as opposed to over 50 litres of water by a car wash. the kit is not available to buy, though. it is used by the dropless service. it may look pretty time—consuming but apparently, it only takes them 30 minutes to an hour to do the outside of the car. you book a visit by its app and someone turns up at your door and cleans your car for you. anywhere in the uk? currently only in a few cities — including london, manchester and bristol — and it is a lot pricier than getting one of your kids to do it for a bit of pocket money. very useful, especially when there is no time to dry! 0k. shall i move on? please. 0k. let me show you something else the cleans without using too much water. so this is the w'air, because it's for cleaning things that you w'ear. now all i need something to clean. here's something i stained earlier. and the idea is that you put the dirty bits on this special backing mat on any hard surface and then, you just blast it with water, air and detergent and in theory, the stain should go. now, the company says that 90% of the clothes that we wash don't actually need to be put in the washing machine in the first place. really? apparently so. instead, w'air can be used to refresh lightly worn clothes or deep clean delicates and avoid wasting water. ok, so is it better than a bit of stain remover and watching something off in the sink? not sure. maybe the clothes don't get as wet, though my shirt did. you realise that this does cost half the price of an actual washing machine? yeah, there is that, too, but at least i got a nice clean shirt out of it so you can take me for a ride in your nice car now. we'll see. these ideas may have some impact on our green credentials but to really make a difference, we probably need to be thinking about changing our transport. yes, in the uk, a quarter of our admissions come from the transport industry alone. delivery vans in particular can do hundreds ofjourneys every day. dan simmons has been to see one british motor company that you've probably never heard of but which is both making vans greener and making making vans greener. vans need to be cost—effective, reliably always on the road and able to carry a lot of weight, so it is perhaps no surprise that the vast majority are still diesel— or petrol—powered. now, a british company has not just ripped out the engine and added some batteries, it has redesigned the van from scratch with some surprising results. say hello to an all—new electric option which i think looks a bit like it is from the future. and that's because, well, it is — there are currently none of these vans driving on the roads. but the company who makes it plans to take over the world. and the name of this new arrival? don't worry, i've not heard much about them either. it's all been a bit hush—hush. we have three vehicles which are currently in development. we have the arrival bus, the arrival van and the arrival car. we have been working on this for about five years now and we are really excited to be bringing these vehicles into production within the next few months. i've come to the company's huge r&d centre in banbury in oxfordshire. it's so new, you'd probably be able to smell the paint — if they had used any. one of the first things they changed was the panels vans are made out of. steel is not in sight. the frame is lighter aluminium to save weight. and the design team created these moulded thermoplastic composite panels, wrapped around fibreglass cloth, that not only save weight but turn out to be pretty tough too. standard metal van. oh, you have a dent in there, you're going to have to take that in. a bit of bodywork needed. this is the thermoplastic composite. hardly a scratch. no? i think you're good to go. it is not painted, so it is not like you have a scratch and even the shine is gone and you have to smooth it out, sand it out and fill it, you know, whatever the process is, spray—paint it. it is just solid all the way through. the panels are cut to shape from the material that is much easier to recycle than steal. that process have some offcuts and those offcuts could be wasted, but we're not wasting any of them. we will ground them down and allow them to be reused in other products in the vehicle, or in other industries. they are worth something and they are valuable. because the vehicles are made in a modular way, they can carry as many batteries as they need for their expected journeys, avoiding any extra weight. touch—free door openings lead us inside. the cabin feels spacious and minimalist with a multi—purpose panel feeding back information from cameras, sensors, and what's to deliver on board. we have achieved more volume by getting the floor much closer down to the ground. the chassis height is much lower. so effectively, we have 20% more cargo volume on the same length of the vehicle compared to a diesel vehicle or any other electric vehicle. to further minimise maintenance times, parts of the car needing to be checked and refilled frequently are all under an easily accessible flap. it's part of a keep it simple and keep it on the road ethos. we are designing these vehicles right from the outset with servicing in mind. how can we ensure that components can be accessed, they can be either repaired or replaced very easily, without disrupting or dismantling the vehicle itself? arrival may not have sold a working model yet but for a british motor company, they are doing rather well. the first big order is in — ups wants 10,000. that's more vehicles than british carmakers aston martin, lotus and morgan make in one year together. and that's before one has hit the road. if you want one, you're going to have to wait about two years. they've already started making buses that are lighter and easier to clean, which should be on the roads later this year. and signed a deal with ride—hailing firm uber to build cars for their drivers from 2023. one of the biggest changes arrival brings is the way these vehicles are made. just up the road in bicester, the company's latest micro factory is taking shape inside an empty warehouse. rather than a single fixed production line with heavy plant machinery, modular cells will each do a specific but reprogrammablejob — cutting, moulding, assembling — before those parts are shuttled around to whichever is the next phase for that design. to get things from one cell to another, they are going to use these — wemos. this one is called 007, oddly enough, and it'll take parts between those various cells to provide them with the components they need to build the vehicle. it is the opposite approach of how car companies like tesla are doing it, with huge big giga factories that provide all the cars for a continent. micro factories can be placed anywhere there is demand, creating localjobs, allowing fine—tuning of models for each market and skipping the importing, shipping or long delivery drives. we can put a micro factory up in about six months. there is — we can take existing buildings, big sheds that you see along the motorway, but six months is really absolutely unheard of, i think, in auto manufacturing. and the company is also looking ahead to an automated feature, already trailing and testing a fully automated van depot without drivers at all. the uk government has funded the project, which it hopes will one day become a big uk tech export. we are right now on the cusp of going into the production of two vehicles within the next 12 months so, you know, the big turning point will be people seeing these vehicles for real, delivering their goods, passengers getting on and off buses within cities, so, you know, that's the future that we looking forward to. people are going know your name. yes. pretty much time for us to wrap up pretty much time for us to wrap up this week, but what is that whirring noise?— up this week, but what is that whirring noise? you cleaned a shot, i cleaned _ whirring noise? you cleaned a shot, i cleaned a _ whirring noise? you cleaned a shot, i cleaned a car, - whirring noise? you cleaned a shot, i cleaned a car, i- whirring noise? you cleaned a shot, i cleaned a car, i am - whirring noise? you cleaned a| shot, i cleaned a car, i am now cleaning my ear —— ear buds. the idea is you put a bit of alcohol spray on, put them in here, close the lid, and then it spins around cleaning them with this bunch. once you have done that bit, you pick it up, and that final bit of wax can be got off with that brush. look at that. how delightful. and on that note i think we should finish the show and do the final bit of housekeeping which sounds like this. as ever you can find the team on social media, on youtube, instagram, facebook and twitter at @bbcclick. thanks for watching, we will see you soon. bye— bye. hello, and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed. it's still showing the major speeches live, but why have the bbc stopped broadcasting party political conferences in full? and, by displaying conservative slogans prominently on its conference set, is bbc news guilty of helping the party advertise itself? for years, encounters between borisjohnson and bbc interviewers have provoked strong and polarised reactions. there were several such meetings this week — starting with the andrew marr show last sunday. after more than ten years of flat—lining, what you are seeing is people on low incomes are being paid more. and by the way, here's an example... no, let me finish this point. you said something that isn't true, i'm afraid. you said something that isn't true about wages. liz wright wonders... but janet haagensen had a different perspective.... and there was a similar division of opinion over nick robinson's radio 4 interview with misterjohnson on tuesday morning — the prime minister's first on the today programme for over two years. there's no... there's no supply of young people in this country who frankly at the moment are thinking of becoming truck drivers. that is going to change — that is going to change... prime minister, stop talking. we are going to have . questions and answers, not where you merely. talk, if you don't mind. now the question and i want to ask you is about the cost i of living, if you would. giles bedloe contacted us to say...

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