 Yeah, I would like to introduce to you cart to go which is a scheme that we are running since 2009 I've prepared a little presentation perfect, so I Would like to start first Why we are doing this basically we are doing this to save space car sharing save space and There's a study of the University of Wisconsin and they have found out that in a five million resident city 400 million square feet would be used for parking structures while 26 million feet would be used for universities That means we are spending 15 times more space for that matter than for the education of kids Which I think is very dangerous and so we came up with a solution that helps save space And I would like to show you why please concentrate on those black cars I might be a bit difficult as you will see but please concentrate on this black cars because they at the end Are the problem because as you can see they are just standing around the whole day They come in the morning They park the whole day they consume space and they just standing around they're not used those little blue cars are the car sharing cars They're used all the time and the whole philosophy is about sharing assets sharing the same piece of metal several times So that not everybody has to bring their own piece of metal So how are you doing this? We have come up with a system Which is very very close to the known car clubs as you might know in UK We call them car clubs and other parts of the world are called car sharing so basically it's about using cars that are provided by us and You know our cars in contrast to car clubs are spread around the whole city. They're everywhere They're parked wherever you can legally park a car So there are no fixed stations So as you don't know where the stations are or where the cars are right now You need to find them in order to find them We have little tools like apps or an internet website where you can find those cars identify them and as a member you then Go to this car you get a little member card from us when you register and you will be able to open the car You get into the car you have to identify yourself and then you drive around you can drive Wherever you want you can drive as long as you want you can drive spontaneously You don't need to reserve the car. So we are very very flexible and flexibility is very important in today's world where things change so quickly So once you just decided to finish using this car You don't need to tell us at once when that is you just keep it as long as you want you just park the car You can park it as I said at any legally possible spot Which is also very flexible and easy for you and then you just finish the rental and The cars ready for the next customer and the whole circle starts from the beginning This is very simple the customer Pays for this kind of car rental per minute and doesn't have to worry about anything else Even the parking course would be taken over by us So the whole the whole do you bring this into the cities and how do you make it attractive? I think the most important thing is you have to make it simple people want to have simple ways of using things I don't want to be somehow, you know in a framework or whatever They were you want to be free and do whatever they want at this specific point of time So anytime is also very important, you know, this lady has a good chat She doesn't want to stop it just because she has to return her car at six o'clock So she wants to chat as long as she wants and then return the car And the other thing is anywhere people want the cars where they are and not want to walk to the cars So we are doing this in 17 cities and three of them are now i'm coming to the point here is We are running this is electric cars These are amsterdam san Diego and stuttgart so all together we have 900 electric cars on the road each 300 in each of these cities And I would like to focus a bit on our experience from amsterdam You can see from this statistic here that we have 300 cars. This is about 9 of our of our old all over fleet Our electric cars in amsterdam. We have another 600 as I said in other cities in amsterdam We have a home area. We call it of 80 square kilometers where those cars are based You know, you can start the rental and finish the rental inside this home area So it's a quite large area where those cars are spread over But it's big enough that we attracted so far 10 000 out of all the more than 200 000 members worldwide So I would like to come a bit on the economies economies of Of electric car sharing if you see on the left, this is a cost structure part of the cost structure We would have for combustion engines and as you can see The vehicle price is a very big issue in this and the vehicle price as you all know for electric vehicles It's much higher than for combustion engine vehicles So we have a kind of challenge for our business case over here because people are not ready to pay much more for electric vehicles They would you know expect to pay the same price than for a combustion engine car So another one is the insurance insurance is basically don't know really a lot about electric car sharing So they usually give you a premium and would have you pay a bit more fuel Of course, it's less electricity is cheaper than than the oil we have today And then we have parking so at the end you will see that in order to run this in a sustainable economically sustainable way We need to have a reduction in terms of parking cost or other costs that help us to sustain this model So coming to Amsterdam they have done a lot on this. They provide free electric Parking for any kind of vehicle not only for ours, but for any vehicle If you purchase an electric vehicle, you will get one charging pole from them So by this I have quite a few by now. They want to have 1000 by end of 2013 A bit about our experience from Amsterdam We were talking about technology Except for the period that you mentioned on in the in the beginning of the 20th century. This is a very new technology We are used to very refined kind of vehicles that have been refined for 125 years But these are is a new technology. So we learn a lot about technology We still need a lot of standardization. It's very new. It's very cortex still We need standards so that people can conveniently use this technology in Amsterdam We have two kinds of charging poles. So they never know what how to use each of the charging poles So things have to be very easy and convenient But once people get used to they get very excited about all this in our electric mobility is exciting They like it. It's once you have ever tried it. It's lots of fun So a bit of the effect of on the mobility and then I will be finished It's 39 of our customers currently drive less kilometers with their private cars. This is not on electric cars This is overall our car sharing scheme But it has an effect on private car usage And another thing which I think is very important which is very combined with what we maybe hear next About the smartphones and about more communication that people start thinking about mobility in terms of situations You know, when you have a private car, you just Naturally sit in the car every morning because it's there, you know, you pay it anyway and it's there So you sit in the car. There's no question. What else to do? If you don't have a car and if you use a whole transport system You selectively use the things so our customers They don't use car to go all the time as you can see only 30 percent of the cases most of the time They use public transport. This is a worldwide figure in europe It would be even 35 percent of trips using public transport So the real thing that changes is a is an attitude towards mobility of thinking in terms of You know, this is a this is a Block where I always use my private car to coming to Flexibility about mobility situations where I choose the right piece of mobility that I need right now. Thank you very much Thank you I'd like to immediately connect what you said with what we heard from john Earlier and john, obviously this concept takes a couple of boxes when you're talking about the Post car system. It's deep privatized. It's electric. It's light And the question I'd have is Is this the kind of post car cities as a system for cities which You imagine or are we possibly giving The car a second life, which it doesn't deserve Second second life Yeah, I mean I would have thought this is a very interesting Innovation that might come to be part of a post what I call a post car socio technical system And I thought one thing you particularly emphasize which is important was the importance that it should be fun Unfashionable. So it seems to me something that's going to Replace the car system has a many characteristics, but it will have to be the latest thing So that the steel and petroleum car seems so 20th century or even 19th century And so the 21st century will be kind of figured around a different set of social arrangements and technologies and Pleasures it should be pleasurable. That's what you were partly capturing Now there is another Question about the current success of car sharing which very much relies on smart mobile phones car sharing as a strategy in itself Has been probably some argue already created in the 70s Scaled in the 90s, but it's really hitting the ground now And it's a question for for patrick because it is indeed the mobile the smartphone Which in the end was able to scale car sharing. Is that a correct assumption? Yes, I think it is and I think it's quite quite interesting to look at what happens now with the Evolution of smartphones what we really see is that telecom is becoming a horizontal rather than a vertical industry It used to be that you called someone it was an industry in itself the telecom now It becomes almost like a utility. It needs to be there in order to have many other Ideas innovation products on top of that. I think that's that's true. That is one thing that is happening Kent would you like to Come in given that you have been pioneering a particular Spatially efficient vehicle and also link that technology a bit to this idea of sharing Well, I think the future really is sharing. We're looking at having a whole ecosystem of vehicles where you You including mass transit Located in very walkable cities So you minimize the need for mechanized mobility to begin with and then you have the right vehicle at the right time in the right place So it's more fun and more affordable and hopefully faster and and I think the currency that makes all of that happen is the data that you That's enabled by new communication technologies Now a question I have to ask you reiner it relates a bit to um I guess the whole strategy behind car sharing when it comes to its relationship to companies that produce Private vehicles a recent study from germany showed that after seven months of car sharing car ownership dropped amongst those new users from 43 to 19 percent When I speak to automobile manufacturers, they usually say well, we like car sharing because we can already create sort of a Consumer preference for the car that then will be eventually bought when people have the money for it Um if these figures are right that doesn't sound particularly encouraging How do you sell your system your strategy? amongst the broader Daimler ecosphere Well, basically my thesis is this this drop of car ownership would have happened anyway And this is I think exactly the point and We heard this today already that you shouldn't fight against the trend. You should go with the trend And you know car ownership in cities is already at less than 50 percent like in new york would be I think 46 percent in tokyo It's 48 percent So people don't own cars anyway. So if you ask a manufacturer what to do now I mean, we won't catch those 52 percent anyway They won't never go into any for a point of sales. Why should I then fight for the 48? and and decreasing part of 48 percent Together with another I don't know 30 manufacturers. So We asked ourselves. So how can we put something on the street for the 52 percent and how can we make what they use today? All in all more attractive because I also want to emphasize I don't we don't want to replace Mobility with car to go. We just want to be a piece of the puzzle in the mobility system And we have done lots of activities together with public transport companies to offer common offers joint offers and You know at the end We think this trend is happening anyway Of course, there are some people in our company who we have lots of discussions with but at the end the company is committed This is supposed to be a business and yeah, we are doing pretty fine. I think Well, I think this is a good moment to move on to another technology that clearly has made Certain older transport modes obsolete It's an old and new technology at the same time. It's the bicycle That is of course having an incredible renaissance around the world And it's becoming smart and electric as well if I can invite uh frauke to give her Um presentation on smart e-bikes, please