Most of the vehicles on Germany’s roads are powered by a combustion engine: a total of 96 percent. In order for road traffic to become climate-neutral, these almost 50 million vehicles are to be replaced by electric or hydrogen vehicles. But they still have to be produced.
The excess combustion vehicles would then have to be disposed of, even if they were to work for longer. The result would be enormous emissions, wasted resources and large amounts of waste.
So why not convert the existing vehicles? Second Ride is a young startup that electrifies the classic Simson. “This makes it possible to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in production by around 50 percent. In addition, converted vehicles could be much cheaper because fewer parts have to be produced from scratch,” says Carlo Schmid, founder of Second Ride. In the podcast “ntv mobil” he talks about the idea, implementation and expectations. Because a good 500,000 of the two-stroke engines are still rolling on our streets.
“ntv mobil” – the podcast for the mobility of today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow with Norman Adelhütte.
