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.
