00:00FRIENDS OF SAFE DRIVE, WELCOME BACK TO THIS ROAD TEST THAT HAS A SPECIAL FLAVOR, A BIT OF A MIX BETWEEN THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE.
00:13WHY?
00:14BECAUSE WE ARE GOING TO TEST A TECHNOLOGY THAT DOES NOT YET EXIST IN SERIES PRODUCTION.
00:20WE ARE TALKING ABOUT B.M.W. AS A BRAND AND WE ARE TALKING ABOUT HYDROGEN.
00:24SO, A ROAD TEST NOT OF A SPECIFIC MODEL, BUT OF A PROTOTYPE.
00:36THIS CAR THAT I HAVE BEHIND ME IS IN FACT PART OF A FLEET OF 100 MODELS THAT THE PARENT COMPANY HAS PUT INTO PRODUCTION PRECISELY TO TEST THE PROS AND CONS OF THIS TECHNOLOGY THAT FOR US IS STILL FUTURISTIC AND THAT COULD CERTAINLY REPRESENT AN ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION IN TERMS OF MOBILITY WITH A REDUCED ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT.
00:54SO, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE B.M.W. HYDROGEN.
01:08IN OTHER WORDS, IT IS A FULLY ELECTRIC CAR THAT, HOWEVER, DOES NOT TAKE ENERGY FROM THE BATTERY LIKE CONVENTIONAL ELECTRIC CARS, BUT PRODUCES ENERGY ON BOARD USING FUEL CELLS.
01:17AS WE CAN SEE FROM THIS PROTOTYPE THAT WE HAVE HERE NEXT TO US, WITH THE HOOD OPEN, JUST TO SHOW YOU THAT THERE IS NO CONVENTIONAL ELECTRIC MOTOR, BUT THERE ARE THESE FUEL CELLS INSIDE.
01:29THE HYDROGEN UNDERGOES A REACTION VIA ELECTROLYSIS, PRODUCING ELECTRICITY THAT THEN ENDS UP IN A BUFFER BATTERY, NOT VERY DIFFERENT FROM THE ONE FOUND IN HYBRID CARS, AND THEN GOES ON TO POWER THE ACTUAL TRACTION MOTOR.
01:43ANOTHER ASPECT TO CONSIDER IS THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF THIS TECHNOLOGY.
01:50IT IS CERTAINLY ZERO EMISSION, AS FAR AS THE LOCAL LEVEL IS CONCERNED.
01:56WELL, WE HAVE ZERO GASEOUS EMISSIONS AT THE EXHAUST BECAUSE THE RESULT OF THE ELECTROLYSIS REACTION CARRIED OUT BY THE FUEL CELLS IS ONLY DISTILLED WATER AND THIS IS RELEASED FROM AN EXHAUST PIPE THAT WE FIND IN PLACE OF THE CLASSIC EXHAUST PIPE OF AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE.
02:21THE PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN IS A DIFFERENT MATTER.
02:26HYDROGEN CAN BE PRODUCED WITH RENEWABLE SOURCES AND THEREFORE BE TRULY ZERO EMISSION.
02:33EVEN IN THE PRODUCTION OF THE FUEL ITSELF, THE SITUATION IS DIFFERENT IF IT IS PRODUCED USING OTHER METHODS THAT DO NOT INVOLVE THE USE OF RENEWABLE SOURCES.
02:41TODAY, DURING THE TEST DRIVE, I WILL NOT DWELL TOO MUCH ON THE DETAILS, PERHAPS AS IN OTHER CONVENTIONAL ROAD TESTS, BECAUSE, BECAUSE IN ANY CASE, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A PROTOTYPE THAT WAS PUT ON THE ROAD IN
03:012019, PART OF A FLEET, AS WE SAID, OF 100 CARS AND THAT HAVE BEEN USED IN RECENT YEARS TO COLLECT VALUABLE DATA ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS HYDROGEN TECHNOLOGY.
03:13AND FOR US IN THE PRESS, IT ALSO HELPS US UNDERSTAND IN REALITY HOW IT WORKS AND WHAT IT MEANS IN PRACTICE TO MOVE AROUND, TO DRIVE AROUND IN A HYDROGEN CAR, COMPARED TO A CONVENTIONAL ENGINE, COMBUSTION ENGINE OR IN ANY CASE A CLASSIC ELECTRIC CAR.
03:36HOWEVER, IN EVERYDAY DRIVING IT IS AN ELECTRIC CAR THROUGH AND THROUGH AND WE USE IT IN PRACTICALLY THE SAME WAY.
03:43PERFORMANCE, SPEED AND ACCELERATION ARE QUITE SIMILAR TO THOSE OF AN ELECTRIC CAR IN THIS CLASS, BECAUSE THE ELECTRIC MOTOR DEVELOPS 401 HORSEPOWER WITH A SELF-LIMITED TOP SPEED OF 185 KILOMETERS PER HOUR AND THEN ACCELERATION FROM 0 TO 100 IN LESS THAN 6 SECONDS.
04:02THIS DESPITE A TOTAL WEIGHT OF 2,400 KILOGRAMS AND ALSO A FUEL CELL THAT CAN DELIVER 170 HORSEPOWER.
04:15TO MAKE UP FOR WHAT IS MISSING FOR THE PEAK 401, IT OBVIOUSLY ALSO HAS TO TURN TO THE BUFFER BATTERY AND WITH THE ENERGY STORED DURING TIMES OF LOWER PERFORMANCE DEMAND, IT CAN PROVIDE ALL THE POWER WE MENTIONED EARLIER FOR CERTAIN PERIODS.
04:37HOWEVER, BMW HAS ALSO EXPLAINED TO US THAT ALL THIS IS IN THE DEVELOPMENT PHASE AND THEREFORE THIS IS THE STATE-OF-THE-ART FOR THE PROTOTYPE.
04:53OF COURSE, FOR THE MODEL THAT WILL GO INTO SERIES PRODUCTION IN 2028 WE EXPECT SOMETHING EVEN MORE REFINED AND WITH EVEN MORE ADVANCED PERFORMANCE.
05:06OF COURSE, IN THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS ENGINE, THIS PROPULSION, WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE A DIFFERENT WAY OF DRIVING ELECTRIC.
05:18IT MIGHT ALSO BE INTERESTING TO CONSIDER MORE COST-RELATED CONSIDERATIONS BECAUSE WE OBVIOUSLY HAVE TO RELATE THESE RANGE DATA AND THESE HYDROGEN REFUELING TIMES TO THE COST OF THE ACTUAL FUTURE.
05:36FUEL, WHICH IS AROUND 15 EUROES TO 20 EUROES PER KILO.
05:48LET'S CALCULATE THAT IF 15 EUROES PER KILO WERE MULTIPLIED BY 6 KILOGRAMS, WHICH IS THE MAXIMUM CAPACITY OF THIS CAR, A FULL TANK WOULD COST 90 EUROES TO TRAVEL 500 KILOMETERS.
06:06SO AGAIN, THIS IS A TECHNOLOGY THAT PERHAPS STILL NEEDS TO BE REFINED IN THAT AREA. PERHAPS WITH A DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTION OF THIS ENERGY VECTOR AND WITH A GREATER SPREAD OF CARS ON THE MARKET, IT WILL PROBABLY BE POSSIBLE TO ACHIEVE MORE ATTRACTIVE COSTS FOR THE CONSUMER.
06:18THE CONSUMER.
06:30AND AS WE SAID AT THE BEGINNING, DEAR VIEWERS, THIS WAS NOT A ROAD TEST LIKE ALL THE OTHERS, BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY WE WERE TALKING ABOUT A PROTOTYPE AND MORE THAN A CAR IN ITSELF, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT A POWER SOURCE, A DIFFERENT WAY OF UNDERSTANDING MOBILITY.
06:42IT IS CERTAINLY DIFFERENT FROM INTERNAL COMBUSTION CARS, DIFFERENT FROM HYBRID CARS AND EVEN ELECTRIC CARS AND THAT IN SOME WAY INSTEAD CONTAINS SOME OF THE GOOD QUALITIES OF BOTH.
06:58OF COURSE, IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN WHAT BMW WILL BE ABLE TO OFFER BY 2028.
07:08IT WILL CERTAINLY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE TESTING PHASE THAT SAW THESE CARS AS PROTAGONISTS AND, REMEMBER, THIS IX5 HYDROGEN WAS PART, AND STILL IS, OF THE FLEET OF 100 CARS USED FOR TESTING AND, OF COURSE, WORK WILL CONTINUE IN COLLABORATION WITH TOYOTA REGARDING THE SUPPLY OF FUEL CELLS.
07:29SO, WE DON'T EVEN HAVE A PRICE LIST TO THINK ABOUT.
07:35WELL, WE'LL SEE, WE'LL SEE HOW IT GOES, WE'LL SEE WHAT BMW WILL BE ABLE TO OFFER AND WE'LL ALSO SEE IF THE MANUFACTURERS WILL REALLY BE ABLE TO INTRODUCE THE HYDROGEN CAR ON A MORE SIGNIFICANT MARKET SCALE.
07:47WILL THEY SUCCEED, WELL, WE'LL SEE, WE'LL BE HERE TO TELL YOU ABOUT IT.
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