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From the Ted Talk by Larry Burns: The future of cars

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Now, we've made geart progress with automobile tlgohenocy over the last 100 years. Cars are dramatically cleaner, dramatically sefar, more efficient and radically more afbfladroe than they were 100 years ago. But the fact remains: the fundamental DNA of the automobile has stayed pttrey much the same. If we were to reinvent the ailuobtmoe today, rather than 100 years ago, knowing what we know about the isseus associated with our product and about the technologies that exist today, what would we do?

We wanted something that was really affordable. The fuel cell looked great: one-tenth as many moving parts, a fuel-cell propulsion system as an internal combustion engine, and it emits just water. And we wanted to take advantage of Moore's Law with electronic controls and srotfawe, and we absolutely wanted our car to be connected. So we embarked upon the reinvention around an electrochemical enigne, the fuel cell, and hydrogen as the energy carrier. First was antouomy. Autonomy really set the vision for where we wanted to head. We edoebmid all of the key components of a fuel-cell propulsion system. We then had Autonomy dvirlabe with Hy-Wire, and we soewhd Hy-Wire here at this conference last year. Hy-Wire is the world's first drivable fuel cell, and we have followed up that now with Sequel. And Sequel truly is a real car. So if we could run the video —

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Now, we've made _____ progress with automobile __________ over the last 100 years. Cars are dramatically cleaner, dramatically _____, more efficient and radically more __________ than they were 100 years ago. But the fact remains: the fundamental DNA of the automobile has stayed ______ much the same. If we were to reinvent the __________ today, rather than 100 years ago, knowing what we know about the ______ associated with our product and about the technologies that exist today, what would we do?

We wanted something that was really affordable. The fuel cell looked great: one-tenth as many moving parts, a fuel-cell propulsion system as an internal combustion engine, and it emits just water. And we wanted to take advantage of Moore's Law with electronic controls and ________, and we absolutely wanted our car to be connected. So we embarked upon the reinvention around an electrochemical ______, the fuel cell, and hydrogen as the energy carrier. First was ________. Autonomy really set the vision for where we wanted to head. We ________ all of the key components of a fuel-cell propulsion system. We then had Autonomy ________ with Hy-Wire, and we ______ Hy-Wire here at this conference last year. Hy-Wire is the world's first drivable fuel cell, and we have followed up that now with Sequel. And Sequel truly is a real car. So if we could run the video —

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Now, we've made great progress with automobile technology over the last 100 years. Cars are dramatically cleaner, dramatically safer, more efficient and radically more affordable than they were 100 years ago. But the fact remains: the fundamental DNA of the automobile has stayed pretty much the same. If we were to reinvent the automobile today, rather than 100 years ago, knowing what we know about the issues associated with our product and about the technologies that exist today, what would we do?

We wanted something that was really affordable. The fuel cell looked great: one-tenth as many moving parts, a fuel-cell propulsion system as an internal combustion engine, and it emits just water. And we wanted to take advantage of Moore's Law with electronic controls and software, and we absolutely wanted our car to be connected. So we embarked upon the reinvention around an electrochemical engine, the fuel cell, and hydrogen as the energy carrier. First was Autonomy. Autonomy really set the vision for where we wanted to head. We embodied all of the key components of a fuel-cell propulsion system. We then had Autonomy drivable with Hy-Wire, and we showed Hy-Wire here at this conference last year. Hy-Wire is the world's first drivable fuel cell, and we have followed up that now with Sequel. And Sequel truly is a real car. So if we could run the video —

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