when grown men screaming like little kids of can only be about cars these are my colleagues on a special assignment traveling across europe in electric vehicles and i think a lot of fun with it hello welcome to made in germany which is today completely devoted to electric cars this summer we sent out our report as christiane of oman and agast to test drive half a dozen of them from cheap production models to high performance prototypes we wanted to find out what caused really the future of individual mobility and how far away is that future anyway first i'll feel as reporters take you to italy that electric comic. as made a name for itself with also a live shot sees that helped save power from that it's on to switzerland where they had an intense encounter with a vehicle that accelerates foster than any other car in the world and it's made by . christiane last year we drove across germany in various electric cars now we're touring europe and it all feels very familiar once again it's hot thirty eight degrees we're in italy once again the car is a bit wonky it's electric but whatever. we wanted to start off small. definitely small we had to really cozy up despite the heat and we still have switzerland austria norway head of us. so how will i cope. but first we are in italy in a media romagna we have a two seater vehicle manufactured by ted saudi prices for this car start at twenty thousand euros they are assembled in the town of. this plant has been building electric cars for eleven years it's a world away from the gasoline guzzling sports cars that italians are known for. we have this wonderful names of. a few. we have talked sorry exactly what is the special thing about the tower and first of all authority is supplier of many of the brands you mention as i have no funding so this is one of the interesting facts and i think that unique fact about the saudis the only producer of electric cars in italy and my cars i mean cars so i want to take over for the electric. why do i need another medium and a car like this because one keep calling from mexico is the lightness i tell you why if you want to have a let's say a long range you need to have many batteries you sell but if the car is very light you need less batteries then you need less time to charge and the charge is gusting less money so this is our key point somewhere idea of an electric car likeness first of all. the car weighs just seven hundred kilos and has a range of two hundred kilometers. so i made our climb one meter eighty five that's over six feet and for me the car's definitely a bit small it's quite a rough ride i think the suspension is not quite right it's more like a racing car and it sounds like a washing machine. the songs are so. oh it's anyone with an electric car in italy will probably need to charge it at home the entire country has just seven thousand eight hundred public charging stations. where. the government long neglected to expand the network. that he do it is not good at the moment but there are good plans for an improvement to what you're coming from nearly as he wrote yes so is there any country in europe which is worse and worse than here i dunno i dunno honestly. it's difficult being more worse than here honestly but i know that the government to stay connection to make it better. and i want to try and go for a time horizon would it be i think. twenty twenty would be probably a while things would be different. there are good plans and you know so yes in a hot it's acceptable for an assessment of what the germans say of row two thousand and twenty of a magic year well let's see out the. next stop is the swiss alps. we're driving and this unleash one of the world's top selling and that should cause. the car just glides along it's totally quiet to go or so all electric and like a little dream on the start isn't climbs. the japanese car can go nearly two hundred kilometers on one charge. but it can't keep pace with this one and electric racing car which clocks zero to one hundred kilometers an hour in one and a half seconds even a formula one car is slow by comparison sadly we're not allowed to take it for a spare. we're meeting students from the e.t.h. in zero eight who hold the world record for acceleration. every year students at the university build a new electric racing car. without fear more toward the more toys for motors and the motors are inside the wheels you can see they're very small but each has fifty horsepower lecithin so we have two hundred horsepower overall for a bit more actually. and it weighs by and get just one hundred seventy kilos less sounds like it could be pretty fast yeah super vast that's the goal to accelerate as fast as possible syllabus long ago live off in the formula student racing series budding engineers from all over the world compete for the title there are five hundred teams in all four years now the team has been a leading contender. to. that are. we continue our journey happy to be behind the wheel again. we're heading to the town of lyons dying north of syracuse. the keyboards company has been developing electric commercial vehicles here since one thousand nine hundred one it has over eleven thousand vehicles on the road worldwide its main customers are delivery firms such as the swiss some german postal services. martin keyboard's who founded the company now getting choirs from all over the world. these three wheelers will soon be delivering letters in norway so why the special interest from the postal service is. important for commuting we can help them cut costs for the vehicles accelerate much faster and they also start much faster than conventional vehicles. but each postal worker can save eight seconds per stop off. that doesn't sound like much but if you think they make six hundred to a thousand stops a day then it soon adds up to a considerable amount all for people and then there's that the all electric roadster that keyboard has developed to have fun with but it comes at a price. i'm trying to function quote if it costs thirty six thousand swiss francs you could but you can also buy it as a kid and assemble it yourself in your living room. then it costs just twenty seven thousand dollars. and with you know the wall out of my living room to get the car out. all the individual components will be easy to take in but afterwards you will need to build again yes. i've been building electric cars for twenty five years and most have been practical oneself but i just long to build one that's all about pleasure and nothing else from kong i. think. any of it including drives really well there are no bells and whistles and side power steering nothing for the road holding is great it's a lot of fun you can take the bends really france. it's just a bit windy. what about to feel as electric time is is we with me here in the studio. thanks for joining me come on that looks like a lot of fun do you call that work i mean you could see we had a blast driving that electric roadster that was just awesome but imagine you are in the in the two of us driving in an electric car for two weeks almost ten hours a day and then we try to save some energy by turning off the radio on the ac so all that's called an interesting experience and to be honest i think you often he was always a bit afraid of me driving around is that i like to have by the way i was very classical. really suited you for who healthy. you went all over europe as you said two weeks what was the biggest challenge or what were the biggest challenges on that trip i think it always came down to the charging because if you have a built in navigation system which has way to go it's very easy but sometimes we didn't have that so we always had to like check the smartphones way to get the next charging station then you come to a charging station ian you realise there's another car and sometimes we haven't seen it now in italy but it happened we came to the charging station it was broken and ima love the city of imola was it was down to like two more charging stations and so if you if you're down to like ten percent or less battery charge you really hope that the next charging station is going to work but what if it doesn't work if you are the juice you're out of juice what it would what would you do call the chow truck i don't know that never happened to us so but that's the only choice i guess . we saw in that report the delivery the company that makes delivery vans briefly come delivery companies be the trailblazers for him ability i think we've seen that because you can you can save a lot of time by using electric cars and for example the german postal service the dutch opposed they are already using two thousand five hundred electric cars and they're saving money by using those cars and it works there they just announced they want to build even bigger delivery cars and buyers from the outside they want to use those cars too we're going to have another in a moment what was your next destination we went to. australia next ok and then a small company is taking on one of the biggest problems facing the electro mobility sector limited range a firm of the city of lens has been making big leaps and terms of battery capacity . our electric adventure continues we were in linz austria where there's a revolution going on in the battery industry. this internet of a doubling converted into an electric car by the kaiser. and it's not just a pleasure to drive it has tremendous range stuff that's because the firm gets much more out of the batteries than a manufacturer let's take a look at this one. guys will build their battery factory from the ground up the firms just three years old but car makers are already driving huge demand for their technology. but the battery like this contains five thousand cells so what makes this system so special is the connection technology the individual cells are connected to each other and i know done but so you only get maximum power when they're connected. and what makes it ingenious is how it minimizes electrical resistance because there's always a loss with each cell contact we have a special process for dealing with this resistance issue probably one of the best on the market ok we can get ten percent more capacity than most of our competitors who also use cylindrical cells. that will make electric vehicles more attractive and having more electric cars on the road could help reach international climate targets by twenty fifty. but the great thing is today's battery technology gives us a solution we can implement now of course and see ten twenty thirty years will likely have different technology that's even better and requires fewer resources that we have to start now otherwise we won't get there by twenty fifth that's the main thing we're concerned about because we want to be able to tell the next generation that at least we tried. it's ok here we go i'm so excited. maku skyzoo and his brothers started as hobbyists just tinkering around in a garage they wanted to prove that any car can be transformed into an electric vehicle with the right battery technology and the project is organized we've kept the cars original seven speed dual clutch transmission electric motors been adapted so you can shift gears and it's still really fun to accelerate. into fifty one hundred fifty six to two hundred and you're always in the optimal gear it's a fun it's fun but it's also scary as it's really sporty. sounds like fun as well that company that we just saw makes batteries that are ten percent more efficient than average batteries that amount to twenty kilometers more on the shots that somebody breakthrough is it i think is not about the twenty kilometers i think it's about showing that more is possible for example these guys from austria they just built their company a couple of years ago and they don't have a huge factory they don't have like the best engineers in the world they're just clever has a very vented a clever way to meet them that's what they did the car manufacturers the big ones they're lining up right now to get hands on their technology and i think that's what we have seen so many times in europe is that sometimes it's small companies it's backyard mechanics and even students like in switzerland who are trying to drive the mobility in europe so you reckon you me you've seen a lot now you've done it last year across germany this year across europe is now the right time to bet on electric cars. i think the cars are getting cheaper and cheaper that's what it can see right now and with countries like u.k. and france announcing they want to ban petrol driven cars and diesel cars i think we will see more and more cars maybe even much sooner as we expected but the first generations of car drivers they say they they are very used to plug in their their cars at home but i think we need to total new infrastructure charging infrastructure especially so we need public parking lots where you can charge your car we need even charging spots at workplaces and maybe hotels feeders and train stations so it becomes much easier to to drive an electric car because you can easier charge your car a little to you i mean this kind of infrastructure the government needs to be involved companies like vote for example who i don't think we have some stations in though we don't know so little this will take some time. it will take a lot of time i think and i and i think it will be a mixture of the government doing stuff and private companies doing stuff and we'll see it later that no way they really trying to change everything and they're really fast and they really advance so i think it's doable but i think you need the customers to buy the cars are you any car convert now so we honest i never had a car in my whole life so there's nothing to convert from you know so i prefer riding my bicycle but i think if i would go for a car right now i think i would take maybe and within the next one or two years i would go for an electric one because it's faster it's greener and you can listen to your favorite music because it's so quiet that's true thank you very much. electric pioneer. and the next leg of their road trip begins with a sharp turn to the north no way the scandinavian country is the final destination for good reason it has the most advanced infrastructure in europe and the cop is also christian and you often climbed into the cockpit of a tesla took them on a long circular journey through stunning landscapes bots you wouldn't want to run out of juice up there in the mountains. we're now in norway and miss time we're driving the test. we have quite a challenge ahead to drive fifteen hundred kilometers cross-country beginning with a trip to the mountains. norway is ahead of its time one in five cars on the roads here are fully electric. the evening before we were in the capital where we picked up our rental car. norway is one of the most important markets worldwide for american luxury carmaker tesla. we headed straight to a car park with dozens of charging stations we do range to meet peter hogg militant from norway's electric vehicle association what do we have to do to get them over to indra well you know you have the pollute the pace principle in the car tax system if you buy a car with high emissions you have to pay a very high tax when you buy it but for say one machine cars there are several tax so this means that the cars are more off actually to buy. a similar polluting car wasn't very expensive to build up all the charging stations all over norway while an environmental policy is expensive and it especially when you are the first movers you have to try and i or. to make it work. but if if we can do something on the global level on climate issues then we really had a big effect for the money we spent. we contacted other electric vehicle drivers via the internet and arranged to talk to the house that family and the charging station. they're off on holiday to the low for ten islands a three thousand kilometer round trip it's the first time they've done this kind of distance in the electric car wouldn't it be so much easier for you to just take a gas turbine car. there's a slow. tesla. yes i did yes it was there false there are getting so much better now year by year that it's just a matter of time before you don't have any use for. fossil fuels ok thanks to you have a safe trip of your family thank you but. we begin our ascent into the mountains the plan is to drive over norway's famous can pass there's not a soul about and no charging station to be seen far and wide. the tesla has a range of three hundred fifty kilometers we wonder if that still applies when you're driving up steep hills. by the time we reach the top of the past the battery is half empty. or. anyone can go downhill all we have to do is roll and brake a lot and then we'll recoup lots of energy that's the unique thing about electric vehicles the regenerative braking system the battery shows one hundred eighty four kilometers left our destination is one hundred fifty seven kilometers away so we could make a perfect landing. but can we trust the g.p.s. not everything it says is correct we suddenly find our path blocked by water. luckily there's a ferry i'm almost out of juice and we still have a way to go and it could get tight for. the next surprise because we're driving electric car we don't have to pay for the ferry. finding the next charging station is always the big challenge when you're driving electric car tesla set up its own network of charging points and we're relying on battery but we're not seeing anything yet. the battery charges dropped to a critical level where is the next charging station. i see it. the moment pop i only have a few percent battery left hopefully the super charger will solve the problem. through part of the truth. and there we go. as a lot i said good it's gone green ladan it'll take about an hour to charge because it's almost empty we hardly had any battery power left at all almost zero what. on earth quantum on the i thought so in the meantime we could explore the place what's it called sundown or maybe they'll have a nice fish roll here fish which. then it's on to the city of bag and the last stage of our journey. no one has shown us the driving long distances with an electric. vehicle count work we've caught a glimpse of what the future could look like but many other countries will need to follow suit in the coming years. europe does have enough pioneering engineers to make it work as we've discovered on our trip. so you like your car was it for you. it is always great with you christiane even in italy italian that was a bit tricky the cars were small but in norway we had a great car and enough charging stations to offer products up otherness or be bought in other countries electro mabella he is still in the stone age when i started so i 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