The Horse 2020/21

Today, Jarno and I did quite a few things. We read a bunch of news articles, mostly about hydrogen and e-fuel, which was really informing!

In another step, we did create two new PDF's which will be quite informing in addition to our posts. Also we did share the surveys on the horse and privately. Furthermore, we did came up with some new questions we would like to ask Dejan (our interview partner).

Our next steps will probably be, pre-writing our article and ask our questions to Dejan.

We are still working on our other files but here you have the first one, which is done: E-Fuel.pdf (156,41 kb)

Hello there

We have made our surveys for socialmedia. We would appreciate if you could fill our surveys out and give your oppinion on the whole topic of future mobility.

Thank you in advance.

Jarno and Daniel

National survey: https://ee.humanitarianresponse.info/x/TCA5itNM

International survey: https://ee.humanitarianresponse.info/x/m8g1f45W

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Today, Jarno and I were going on our test drives. First of all, we drove a diesel car, then a hybrid, e-car and finally a fuel car. It was really interesting to test them directly afterwards. We drove every car for about 45-50 minutes so we could see really how they behave.

Currently, were writing our review and plan to publish it next week. We did quite some photos and also tried to do a “sound check”. Unfortunately, we couldn’t do a good sound check, as our mobiles and a separate microphone didn’t do well. In general, the hybrid and fuel car did behave the best. They drove comfortable and had a reasonable fuel usage.

Were looking forward to publish our results.

This was the hybrid car, we drove.

Some weeks ago, we got the suggestion from Mrs. Suter, that it would be an interesting topic to do a direct comparison from the different car types like fuel / diesel / e-car / hybrid. Personally, we think that would be a great idea! As one of myMore...

So today we finally have finalized our survey for Switzerland. As we said, we plan to do an international survey too, which will be released later on. Our national survey has 10 questions, which in our opinion are enough to get a good result. The goal of this survey in general is to see, how many people are actually driving a car, how many would go with public transports if the network would be better and if a car is even important for them. We hope to get many different and interesting opinions as a result.

We hope you can spend some minutes and do our survey: https://ee.humanitarianresponse.info/x/TCA5itNM

In the future, we plan to compare our national and international surveys. We would like to see, if people are more open in Switzerland or international-wide. This is a very interesting topic, because many friends and family members told us, that “Switzerland is far more open to e-cars or hybrids”.  We actually think that may be partially true and are looking forward to see an exciting result.

Currently we plan to publish our international survey later on in one of the biggest international forums to get as many answers as possible.

In the two weeks of holidays, Jarno and I did quite a few things. We have worked on our website and got the basic designs. Furthermore, we found a second group from the Basque country which would like to do a cooperation with us. Their topic is noise pollution levels in cities generated by cars. Personally, I think that’s a great cooperation and also one of the benefits for the most people for e-cars!

Unfortunately, we couldn’t do as much as we wanted in these two and a half weeks, because there was a personal accident. We tried to get a test drive in a e-car, but this is quite hard. Many Resellers told us, that they won’t let a person test drive their car when they aren’t at least 25 years old. This is quite a challenge for us, as we really want to compare those different cars!

In the meanwhile, we did a lot of research! Many big cars manufactures like Toyota or Lexus did invest much money into fuel cars like e-fuel. We think that is a sign that manufacturers actually don’t believe in a „e-car only world“.

Even BMW did announce their first X5 hydrogen SUV, which will be released in mid 2022. If you want to learn more about the full hydrogen BMW SUV you can read this article: https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/tech-zukunft/alternative-antriebe/bmw-i-hydrogen-next-x5-fcv-wasserstoff/

Furthermore BMW did also announce, that they have put the full electric „1er series“ on ice.

In the next weeks, we will start our German survey for cars/e-cars. The link will be posted here so everyone can participate at the survey. We already have created some provisional questions:

1. Fahren Sie ein Auto? Wenn ja welches? (Benzin, Diesel, Hybrid, elektrisch)
   1. Our goal with this question is, to know how many people allready use environmental friendly cars.
2. Können Sie auf Ihr Auto verzichten?
   1. We want to know how many people would use public transports in general.
3. Können Sie sich vorstellen ein umweltfreundlicheres Auto zu fahren?
   1. We think the potential of buying a e-car is high and want to check it.
4. Was würde es benötigen, dass Sie sich für ein umweltfreundlicheres Auto entscheiden würden?
   1. We want to see, what is needed for people to consider buying a e-car or something comparable.
5. Ist es für Sie wichtig, ein eigenes Auto zu besitzen?
   1. Maybe many people would share a car, which would be environmental friendly.
6. Ist ein Auto für Sie nur ein Fortbewegungsmittel hat es für Sie einen persönlichen Stellenwert?
   1. With this question we want to see, if cars are only a transport. If yes, those people could change to public transports in the future.
7. Falls Sie einen Benziner fahren, warum?
   1. We want to know why most people drive a patrol car right now.
8. Ist Ihnen die Leistung am Fahrzeug wichtig?
   1. This question helps us to understand, if a small car live a VW UP is an alternative for some people.
9. In welcher Alternative sehen sie die Zukunft der Automobilindustrie und warum? (Hybrid, elektrisch, wasserstoff, E-Benzin o.ä.)
   1. Here we want to check, if our researches are in comparable with the opinions.
10. Würden Sie mit einem sehr ausgebauten öffentlichen Verkehrsnetz auf ein Auto verzichten?
    1. Our final question is looking for people, who would completly change to public transports.

Jarno and I were really active. We’ve done some major design updates on our website, so people will be enjoying our information’s in the future. Furthermore, we already asked some peoples from the car scene in Switzerland about their first opinion. Many told us, that they actually won’t buy an electric car in the future, because the emotion is missing for them. This answer actually didn’t surprise us.

Furthermore, we have wrote down some questions for our international survey. Here you already can have a look at a few of them:

• Will you consider an e-car in the future and why (not)?
• What is the most important thing for you while buying a car?
• What is the biggest downside an e-car brings for you?

That are three of our main questions. We actually want to do like 15 questions in this survey. We also planned a survey in Switzerland, so we could compare the result from international answers and answers in Switzerland. We also made a first direct comparison from e-cars with their advantages and disadvantages. Here you can have a look at our foil: Advantages.pdf (521,77 kb)

Last week, we contacted Dejan Radmanovic. We talked with him about our project and asked him again, if we could ask him some questions. He agreed but told us that his answer could be delayed a bit, because he’s busy right now.

Meanwhile, we also got our reply from the bask-country. They told us, that they’ve had school holidays. They would answer our questions. Currently Jarno and I are thinking about something else we could do with the two students from the busk-country, so we actually make something else and don’t just ask questions. This part is pretty hard for us, but we’re sure that we will get an great idea!

We worked at our website and are pretty sure, that the website will be good. There are many points of view issues to consider for our text on the sides, which we will be working on in the next weeks.

With our project i want to achieve a good oversight of the future of cars. Will it be e-cars, hydrogen cars or maybe even “the fuel car 2.0”? That’s a really great and interesting project for me, because cars are on of my biggest hobbies for quite a long time now. We’ve planed doing a world-wide survey so we can compare the opinions of other peoples in different countries. That will be quite challenging but I would love to see the opinion from different peoples. I also want to motivate the peoples I know in the car community to participate to see their view. These includes groups from Switzerland and Germany.

With the electric car test-drive I want to feel he car, see if it would be an alternative for me and if I would consider buying a electric car as my next car. I currently have quite two concrete plans to buy my second car, but maybe I after this project I will consider a e-car.

I want to build our website as modern as possible, so people go on it and read about our project. It should give people a help in choosing a new car and maybe consider hydrogen and electrical cars. That would be a great achievement.

The last week over eastern, our group started the concept of an online survey about the future of mobilities, so we can see what the opinions are worldwide. This is really interesting for us and we hope that we get quite many answers from many other countries. We plan to publish the link in the biggest car-group there is online! We hope that we see some different opinions as ours so we can compare them and decide, if e-cars have a good reputation outside of Switzerland.

Furthermore, we started the base for our website. It was quite an easy start, as we already have some experience in building a website. We’ve read quite some interesting articles about electric cars, hybrid cars and “normal” fuel cars so we can already start writing some texts for our site. We created this time plan for the next few parts of our projects: Timeplan future mobility.pdf (180,25 kb)

Last Friday was a great day for our project to! We’ve seen some news articles, that Toyota, one of the biggest cars manufactures in the world, has invested 210 million US-Dollars in a new engine-production-location in West Virginia! This was quite interesting to read because we don’t think that such a big company as Toyota would invest money in “an old” technology if they don’t believe in it. In our opinion this is a sign, that car manufactures may consider only going to produce e-cars but also newer, environmentally friendlier fuel cars. 

 
A Picture of Toyotas new plant in west Virginia.

As I’m really connected in the “car-scene” in Switzerland and also know many car guys in Europe, I know that one of the main reasons that these peoples wouldn’t buy an electric car is, that they haven’t got any emotions at all. For nearly every car guy its important, that the cars don’t just look good and perform well, but they should have emotions while driving. That doesn’t mean they must be in 0-100 km/h or be insanely loud, but they should feel great for instance while driving a curve. Personally, that’s also one of the main, if not the main reason, for me to actually not buy a e-car as they have 0 emotions. I’m really looking forward to test-driving one so I can actually see if my personal opinion was right or not. Currently Jarno and I are planning to test drive a Tesla Model S (Performance), which is one of the highest rated e-cars on the market. Unfortunately, it will be quite hard to actually test drive a car and do a video about it, because we mostly won’t be able to go on the test drive alone, as many car resellers don’t allow test drives in modern cars, especially not for people under 25 years.

Another great achievement we actually acquired last week was our first contact with one of your partners from other countries. Unfortunately, we didn’t get a response from our partners in the bask country.

We have made first contact with Dejan Radmanovic. He studied economics and got a master degree in 2015, was the head of the finance and treasury department in two of the biggest banks on the whole Balkan. Currently, he is the head of Actuary in the Dunav insurance, which is the biggest insurance company in Serbia and Bosnia. He is an expert in economics. That’s the reason, why we contacted him. While we researched many sources, we saw that the European union is trying to make a regulation, in which fuel and diesel ban until 2030. We asked ourselves if that’s even realistic for the whole Europe. I got the idea that we could ask an expert in a region which isn’t as rich as Switzerland or Germany on his or her opinion if that is realistic. We decided that the Balkan meets our criteria and we started to research a good person. On this way we found Mr. Radmanovic, because we found many interviews internationally and were thinking, that he is not only an expert, but also willing to do a small cooperation with us. We will be in contact with him this Friday afternoon.

A picture of Dejan Radmanović, one of our partners.

We have finally decided what our project is. We will look into the topic "future mobility". We think it is really a interessting and a important topic for the future of our planet and are looking really enthusiastic into our project. Daniel is also really interessted in cars, so we also have a personal connection to the topic.

We think it is really important for us to make a good plan when we do what and when we finish with a part of our project. In general, we plan on doind a world-wide survey to see, if the oppinions are the same in other countries. We were surprised, that big car manufactures like the VW-Audi Group or Toyota are spending much money into the developement of gasoline cars and e-patrol instead of the e-cars like everybody thinks. As part of our project, we wannt to test drive a full electric car and make a personal comparision from "a car-guys perspective". Furthermore we plan to "build" a small e-engine by ourselfe and do a website, on which we show the direct comparision of the different types of cars.

You can listen to our audio, so you can understand the basic idea of our project. 

Future_Mobility.aac (564,93 kb)

We also found a partner from Bosnia, which we like to ask the question "is it realistic to only drive e-cars in the balkan region?". Our partner has studied economics and has a master degree and was the head of one of the biggest banks in the balkan region, so he is a really good expert. Currently we think it isn't possible to only drive e-cars in this region, because the countries are mostly really poor.