Know how. And in Silicon Valley itself we hear another story losses running into billions chaos in production and stressed out employees your body kind of just gives up doing the exact same thing for twelve hours and. How long will teslas lead last all the carmakers are gearing up teslas rivals in germany are playing their cards close to their chests how dangerous are they. Talked about as the shock is passed in German Companies are closing fast simple. On tests which to tesla he drives one hundred percent electric. Trucks and although i dont know you get in the car you close the door and its like youre in another world view. You know what you dont have any ambient noise anymore you dont hear the engine and the cars very very relaxing to drive. And its also good for the environment. Also what you get from but i used to drive a diesel because i cover a lot of kilometers it was he was why did you just have to stand behind a car like that unusual nose you know and then you know that it cant be good because he should believe in justice i wasnt going to come. Teslas clean image gleaners but it cost money more than seventy thousand euros for the economy version of the s. Model with auto pilot of course. The items we dont own a muscle so i dont have to worry so much about the Little Things anymore slowing down keeping my distance accel or waiting again the car does it all by itself. Its more of a driving assistant auto pilot would steer the car itself there have been some spectacular accidents and even tesla has issued warnings shows there are some so you still got to Pay Attention to the road what it cant do is accept the motorway or things like that with all the work of a little said to. Him on drives emission free through his hometown of laos under pigments he overlooks occasional defects the non operational autopilot camera the jammed exterior mirror or the internet browser. You can see it up here normally this advertising should run through here but its not working but you can find a lot of complaints about teslas defects on the internet but just as much support as well. So no matter whether its a mobile phone or a television or Something Like that you already assume it wont function one hundred percent some of the smaller things wont work. To your making mistakes and making improvements thats teslas principle the latest updates to its software are always available until now the achilles heel of all ecards has been the frequent need to stop and recharge tesla promises long range driving the ham on family is packing for summer holiday. Thats not enough t. Shirts. Youll have to take small as always ive got too much ill have another look in a minute. The hemlines are off to italy for people and their dogs. A thousand kilometers all electric how are they going to manage that. Tesla has made an object of desire but does the battle of teslas david against the Oil Companies goliath ring true what goes on at the tesla factory on the edge of Silicon Valley. For a year weve been asking to visit and see the cars in production but weve never had a reply so were going there anyway. Our camera on the sidewalk alert security. They say no recordings or interviews and tell us to leave. Behind the factory test the workers are camping in the parking lot a remarkable picture by german standards. Let me talk to you from german television. Nobody wants to talk to us here either then we get lucky. Lets take it back. And blow hopefully to. Zachary hodges work to tesla until he couldnt take the strain anymore how come. He didnt want to put himself and his familys future at risk any longer keen is the problem the reason why i decided to leave. So. He was grown is. Pregnant and right around the time i got her. At first zachary was totally enthusiastic about the tesla story and eagerly joined in the Company Video shows the projects. In mind in the best light but he remembers the factory differently. Is everything here looks a lot brighter its definitely looks cleaner than i when i read a number that. Actually showed the role that i worked on recently. Thats the clear part right before thats the dirtiest section theyre not surprised they were. In that hours that we were there we had to work is essentially twelve hour days every single day and most of the time it was seven days a week or six days a week usually worked on on saturdays sometimes we were i think the the the max was like forty some days straight. Theres a few more humans involved and they are showing. At some point his body could no longer withstand the constant strain. Repetitive Work Injuries is probably the most common thing in just your body kind of just gives up doing the exact same thing for twelve hours and that. The health and Safety Authority has also recorded a whole series of accidents at tesla. The robotic arms cant reach everything so you have to manually drill holes in and you know and then pop rivets and and so the drill bits very sharp they die out in about two cars probably about a couple minutes so i was told hours and i put my entire body weight. To drill holes into the car so it was like twenty one holes you know pop in. And then that actually got in actually. I think i was just wiping a car down with a cough and then my arm gave out and my back. For months he was unable to work and even now he still needs physio therapy how does that fit in with teslas own glossy story. Elan musk mr tesla he stands in the limelight and sells the story of squeaky clean tesla putting the old car industry on notice. He knows how to present himself but he still refuses an interview. He has a huge fan base. Is it justified. We tracked down an old friend of his. On us growth today a deal resi heads the Founder Institute a Business Incubator for High Tech Companies hes known since his student days. Ive known you on lost for twenty five years. Arguably one of his best friends we actually started a. Game a night club in our College House at the university of pennsylvania. And we use the proceeds from the night club to cover our Living Expenses high tech and entrepreneurial spirit and a desire to make a profit all this falls on Fertile Ground here there are going to santo santoro. Most of the Venture Capital inside of america. Its situated on sand hill road. Most startups fail but if they succeed its mainly here in pollo in Silicon Valley. So youll see this sort of small quaint little town and its probably responsible for the vast majority of enervation crane around the world today google was started in a building just like that except right up ahead pay pal was started and another one of these buildings pay pal is the internets financial giant a start up by young entrepreneurs elon musk was one of the cofounders musk and his colleagues sold it to ebay for a billion and a half dollars. Tesla it was originally also a start up set up by electric current to see its here on the first floor is the cradle of the company. Elon musk brought millions from the pay pal sale and quickly took over the helm from founder martin aber hard. How did must manage to overtake the old Car Companies with a start up. Stuttgart based innovation consultant all of a guy now has a surprising answer tesla was significantly faster than the german car industry in developing a battery car but it still used their help he shows us whats in a tesla. Sensor in brake Management Systems are made by bosch the entire air suspension comes from continent. Steering gears are from to soften today known as robert bosch automotive and the door handles were developed with a Company Bowser called book. Inside controls come from and the sound system from a young swabian company around forty suppliers have been installed including german suppliers for rear view and cosmetic mirrors. Previously dime like generously supported the newcomer with capital and german know how it turns out tesla successful model strategy is an original either. Interestingly tesla has adopted the classic automobile manufacturer Strategy First of all start with Premium Technology and the higher goal classes and only then gradually transferred to other vehicle classes in principle tesla has done what the germans have been doing very successfully for a very long time and translated that into electro mobility. In contrast german car makers had switched their strategy for electric mobility competing with small but expensive. Now mercedes and audi have also introduced larger electric off road vehicles and porsche is directly challenging tesla successful s model. A meeting in an underground car park in barcelona. The new electric porsche the ty con is intended to overtake the tesla. The team test engineers from stuttgart. Their Mission Readiness for serious production. But as infants pick us late as possible. The cars design is top secret inside and out. Chief engineer robot maya always keeps an eye on the competition secretly all the car makers are fever slee working on electric cars the competition for the future of the ecar is in full swing. We dont want to talk a lot about the styling of the vehicles interior yet lose it for so we wont show our competitors our new ideas too early but it. Needs to for its own boy and not settle for more. But just a few minutes later the electric porsches cover is blown. The police pull it over while its still in town. Other drivers also take photos of the newcomer the tesla challenger is already on the radar. But for porsche road testing is a must the electric tie conscient work in all situations even in the heat here that test is especially important for the batteries. To spin you know doesnt let so everyone knows that a laptop simply loses run time a competitive after a certain time of you know this is because its battery is most frequently operating either very high or very low temperature ranges because theyre not actively cold and heated so gets eaten our team behind it. Its the same with the electric car batteries that get too cold or too hot breakdown. Faster and have less power. And performance is portias top priority. To come this fall so you can accelerate event go from zero to one hundred ten times in a row with the value we specified and that will be a very good value as you can accelerate from zero to two hundred four times in a row without any loss of power at any point. In the last support of. The engineers that porsche are sure they can surpass the tesla and they also want to beat the americans in terms of quality. But they arent there yet. I dont believe weve just had a startup probably one of our five fair causing our colleagues and i are researching it there is an established procedure for this which we must now carry out of him but it will only take a moment then the car will be ready again. Car five running were coming up good its working were leaving the car park and turning right so now the test can continue with. The fault was actually a stroke of luck for the swabian engineers because they want to find the faults before the customers do. Unlike other brands that use a Combustion Engine body with an electric motor porsche has a new approach with an extra low position for the battery back monday boy you can see it very clearly when you drive into the curve its the low center of gravity makes the vehicle even more stable. And you drive around bends like on tracks of your feet this combined with the acceleration typical of electric motors could probably leave most gas guzzlers behind but the engineers still have countless curves hundreds of thousands of kilometers and every imaginable test situation ahead of them. In less than a year they want to beat tesla in the sales room too even though the porsche is likely to cost around twenty thousand euros more. Back in california a deal resi doesnt believe that the established european car makers will have it so easy against tesla not with his friend elon musk at the top. Elon musk him to take your is very successful because hes a strong and they are probably one of the strongest engineers that have ever lived and in addition to that he is very determined that. What keenness is the key to success here only if something is completely new almost revolutionary can it leave the established companies in the dust as with pay pal and tesla they have also shown this with another project that they started together. You on and i started working on space together in approximately two thousand and we worked on a Company Called life to mars for one year where we were trying to develop a mission to mars. Thats how elon musks other big Company Space x. Came to be its a private space Flight Company something that was once almost inconceivable and even less affordable space x. He took a small fortune and turned it into a large fortune so he inverted the paradigm. Space x. Now regularly shoots satellites into space. The tests are also good advertising for tesla. To cut costs must work covers the missiles which is new but his vision goes much further we need to be a multi planetary species it is our manifest destiny at this point to have a sustainable ongoing. Colony or civilization off planet and then if you look at the planets in our souls solar system there is literally one that makes sense and thats mars. But musk has great plans on earth to the hyperloop is a high speed Traffic Network of tubes based on the same principle as the pneumatic tube in this case the pods will be self powered. Musk has already had students from all over the world working on them most from germany. There is a lot of activity here at munich technical universities prototype workshop. Dozens of students are competing against twenty top universities from all over the world. The team that comes up with the hyperloop the fastest wins. The theory about how much were learning here its indescribable comparable totally unlike a semester in a lecture hall that. The munich students have already won one of iran must stop petitions twice but he wants to up the pace and calls on them to compete again and again and now it is yes i think hes very snobbish he did very well with the hyperloop because he didnt have enough time in the beginning so he had the idea to get different students and people working on it and without a. Yeah but when you get. There packing for the contest in california. The competition of the top universities has begun the students from munich are working under High Pressure making the final preparations on their module in the testing tube must give the speech that fires them all up. There to assume teams cover here and to create companies. And i think thats really what it credit cards is like. Trying to. Create your organization. Predict the future earlier say face. The race itself will barely last ten seconds but will give a verdict on months of hard work. If they follow the journey in the tube through a camera in the cut short. By. Four hundred and sixty seven kilometers per hour. A new record munich has won. The. German know how for iran musk and a handshake from the billionaire as a thank you. Richard. Reid was there with the children and watched with those children with us there was actually quite spontaneous. The budding engineers admire the video seen Credit Company boss and imitate his way of working. With the deadlines and deadlines are very difficult to meet and we really do need to return to finish later but this way of working forces virtually everyone to work at full tilt always doing as much as possible. In my movies future life so as to just buy this is a good example in the week before shipping it to electronics guys who programmed the whole control system slept eight hours in five days im in photog still just. Barely achievable goals and constant pressure is that the must system. Im stressed in turn thing out. Exactly hard just has experienced the permanent stress in the tesla factory. He got sick and feels abandoned. Yeah theyre blaming us for getting hurt knowing that they have basically. Us until were almost dead every single day and then blame it on us it was a victimization that i just didnt sit right with me. It was as if from a terrible feeling to feel that hes unwilling to believe the glowing tesla story anymore even though tesla says it took note of the situation and changed the workflow you know when you first get in there they treat all excited that youre part of something and then you see how expendable you are as the factory worker when you hear her. Zacharys left tesla and hes not the only one. In a small village in the region of southern but the area we need a man who dedicated himself to must body and soul. Phillips could it was the manager of tesla in germany. Lets do the whole thing is about as if the phone rang and you knew it was his number you sometimes got a bit nervous above all the allotted times were always very very short and there was always a lot of pressure he. Says the manager who is a selfconfessed workaholic he commutes between locations worldwide and manages an Eco Power Company without a fixed desk well why not. If you ask my fiance shell say im always working as long as my head still attention im not sleeping you she was always how you define it. Is i would say that in a busy week with a lot of travelling i work ninety hours but otherwise im between seventy. Two sons of god to conquer. Tesla he worked hard and learned a lot especially how important a good story is not just the product. I mean its the vision to say im attacking the Automotive Industry where its very hard to gain a foothold to improve the world and to prove that it works with all my comparable i could still go bankrupt but it could go bust. I believe it really awakens remarkable sympathy among customers when someone really thinks ahead takes risks and then goes their own way. Schroeder also drives a tesla as a company car in his new company the secret of tesla success in germany is quite clear to him the tesla fast charging stations on the edge of the motorways called super charger which he helped to set up all over the country. Or nearly with