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- [Alejandro] Formula E
has really gone beyond
our biggest expectations.
I'm incredibly excited by the launch
of the Generation-2 car.
For us it's almost like getting to a new
beginning of Formula-E.
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- [John] We're inside the
Channel Tunnel service tunnel.
This is one of the most,
it's perhaps, the most unique
transport system we've got.
It's a fixed link between
the UK and France.
It's underground, it's under the sea.
It's basically the lifeboat
for our operations.
So, while we're running trains in the two
running tunnels, which
are either side of us,
we've got to keep this
clear and available,
just in case we need it
for emergency intervention.
- [Camera Man] Roll camera, roll sound.
Then we're (overlapping speaking)
- Inside this tunnel,
we've got cables running
25,000 volts, which are
bringing electricity
from the French grid, into
our substation in the UK.
And, what we're building
in the running tunnel
for 2020, is an international
inter-connectors.
That'll be carrying a gigawatt
of energy, all the time.
- I think the Channel Tunnel
for Formula E was a great
way to show the huge leap that we made
with the Generation-1 to Generation-2 car.
We have, in our car,
companies from France.
Spark designed the car
and assembles the car,
this incredible piece of technology.
- [Camera Man] And, action.
- [John] Having any electric
vehicle down here is brilliant.
Having electric racing cars is fantastic,
and having the Gen-2,
Formula-E car, it's absolutely
the pinnacle, I think.
At the moment, this is
the most outrageously
designed vehicle I've ever seen.
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- [Theo] We the started the design
on that car in September, '16.
When the driver will drive
for the first time, this car,
for sure they will
notice massive difference
in both power, performance and range.
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The design is so different,
compared to what it was before,
and to any other category
that it was really
a big risk from everyone
involved in the project.
FIA, the Formula-E, Spark,
that I was really looking
forward, the moment where
we would first unveil it
to the manufacturer,
and then to the public.
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- For Formula-E, the key is
to be the framework where
all the technology development involves.
We want to be the place
where the actors come
to showcase their new technology,
to test the technology,
to improve the technology.
I think the sky's the limit.
I think we've been able
to do this in four years.
In the next four years
we're going to be able to do
also, incredible things.
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