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🗓️ 23 July 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Alasdair Keane is at the season finale of the Formula E, taking a look at how the tech has advanced over 10 years. We hear from the co-founder of the fully electric car racing event and ask where it goes next. What do the drivers think? And how does the event meet its sustainability goals? Plus, we go behind the scenes of a world-record-breaking AI event.
Presented and produced by Alasdair Keane. Produced by Imran Rahman-Jones. Edited by Monica Soriano.
Image: An orange Formula E car on the racetrack in London. Credit: Getty Images.
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0:47.1 | tech is impacting the world all around us. And if you listen very, very carefully, you might |
0:52.0 | get a clue as to where I am for this episode. |
0:59.9 | Or perhaps not. And standing next to a racetrack, with the cars whizzing around me at more than 300 |
1:06.6 | kilometres an hour, sound different to what you might expect. That's because this is Formula E. |
1:13.5 | The E stands for electric. |
1:15.7 | It's Formula One replacing the fuel tank with a battery and replacing the combustion motor |
1:20.9 | with two electric motors. So far this year, the All Electric Racing Series has been in Brazil, |
1:28.8 | in Mexico, Shanghai, |
1:32.9 | in China, Tokyo and many other cities all around the globe. |
1:36.5 | But it all ends here at the season finale in London. |
1:39.3 | And this is also the end of season 10. |
1:42.9 | So in this program, we'll explore the tech on and off the track and ask if it's found its way into our |
1:45.6 | everyday lives. We introduced for the very first time in motorsport the use of sustainable aviation |
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