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