节目开始：大家好，我是约翰•麦克罗伊，欢迎收看Autoline 中国，我们的节目将为您呈现汽车领域最重要最前沿的行业新技术。

福特在设计过程中引进增强现实技术
沃尔沃与微软曾在几年前合作展示用于升级消费者体验的增强现实护目镜。现在，福特正在设计过程中尝试引入这一类护目镜。无线耳机可以将不同的数字设计元素和部件投射到实物车辆上，设计人员可以立即进行更改。使用常规的粘土模型，设计更改可能需要几天甚至几周的时间，而使用虚拟现实护目镜技术则可让这一切在几分钟或几小时内轻松实现。同时，它可以帮助团队中不同的设计部门更高效地协作。这样的技术形式可以使世界各地的设计工作室在同一时间实现同一体验。而设计体验是又是将客户带入展厅最重要的方式之一。因此，提高设计过程的高效性和灵活性是一个非常重要的优势。

尼科拉与博世合作燃料电池半卡车
去年，创业公司尼古拉汽车（Nikola Motors）推出了由燃料电池驱动的8级半卡车。现在，该公司已经与德国巨头供应商博世（Bosch）合作，帮助其在2021年之前将这项产品推向市场。博世的电桥驱动技术是一种可扩展的模块化平台，将电机，电力电子器件和变速器集成到一个单元中，形成燃料电池系统。这将有助于卡车达到超过1000马力和2000磅英尺的扭矩。尼古拉说，总拥有成本将可以与柴油卡车相竞争。

欧司朗的下一代照明系统
随着汽车行业进入自动驾驶和乘坐分享的时代，传统供应商正试图找到自己的定位。照明供应商欧司朗提出了一些想法，比如在自动驾驶汽车前照亮地面，让行人知道车辆正在放慢速度，这样他们就可以安全地过马路。或者在车门周围点亮地面，以免人们在黑暗中绊倒。如果你能在汽车里做任何你想做的事情，那么一个圆顶灯是不够的。欧司朗在照亮整个车顶的基础上，还在座椅上安装了照明设备。通过探索更好的可视性，安全性和造型概念，欧司朗已经表明，传统供应商已经可以在自动驾驶汽车时代扮演非常重要的角色。

WAYMO表示自动驾驶车的实现远比你想的更近
Waymo向媒体展示了加利福尼亚州的试验场。记者们对这辆自动驾驶的克莱斯勒Pacifica影响深刻。处理各类状况，如汽车切断，分散车前行人，自行车的随意穿梭，以及随时有车辆退出车道，驾驶分心等情况。Waymo的首席执行官告诉媒体，全自动驾驶汽车的实现远比大多数人想象的要近得多。

下面，我将和大家分享我在电动汽车对环境的负面影响上的看法。

电动车普遍被称为零排放车辆，但这其实是不正确的。如果我们要实现真正的环境可持续性，那么我们不能忽视制造汽车过程中的所有能源。

事实证明，制造电动汽车电池的过程是非常耗能的。它们必须在非常高的温度下烘烤六周。事实上，三星期后，方形电池必须从烤箱中取出，然后将其切开，以便将它们除气，然后再贴上并放回烤箱烘烤三周。需要这么多的精力才能使它们成为关注科学家联盟所说的250英里范围内的电动汽车，其碳排放量比活塞式发动机高出68％。我能想象一个有370英里续航力的电动汽车碳排放量至少比普通发动机高出100％。

环保主义者认为，在其整个生命周期内，电动汽车将弥补这一差距，并且比内燃机车更加洁净。从总体来说这是对的。但这也取决于电力的来源。在用化石燃料发电的地区，可能永远不会弥补这一差异。而且这个结论建立在活塞发动机的清洁度停滞不前的前提上，即使传统发动机的清洁度一直在发展。

重点是，我们需要考虑电动汽车在生命周期内产生的所有排放，其中包括制造过程，使用过程，以及回收过程。

今天的节目到这里就结束了，感谢您收看Autoline中国。

Hello, I’m John McElroy, welcome to Autoline China, the show that covers some of the most important new technologies in the automotive industry.

FORD AUGMENTS ITS DESIGN PROCESS
A couple of years ago, Volvo teamed up with Microsoft to demonstrate augmented reality goggles used to enhance the dealership experience. Now, Ford is experimenting with the goggles in the design process. The wireless headsets can project different digital design elements and parts on a physical vehicle, which designers can change instantaneously. With a clay model, design changes can take days or weeks but with VR goggles it canbe done in minutes or hours. And it can help different parts of the team collaborate more efficiently. Design studios in different regions of the world can all view the same thing at the same time. Design is one of the most important ways to bring customers into showrooms. So making the design process more efficient and flexible is an important advantage.

NIKOLA TEAMS UP WITH BOSCH FOR FUEL CELL SEMI
Last year, start-up company Nikola Motors, unveiled a fuel-cell powered Class 8 semi-truck. And now the company has partnered up with the giant German supplier Bosch, to help bring it to market by 2021. Bosch’s eAxle technology, which is a scalable, modular platform with the motor, power electronics and transmission in one unit, will be combined with the fuel-cell system. This will help the truck achieve more than 1,000 horsepower and 2,000 pound feet of torque. Nikola says the total cost of ownership will be competitive with diesel trucks.

OSRAM’S NEXT-GEN LIGHTS

As the auto industry rushes into the era of autonomous and ride sharing cars, traditional suppliers are trying to figure out how they can play a role. Osram, the lighting supplier, has come up with several ideas, like lighting up the ground in front of an autonomous car to let pedestrians know it is slowing down so they can safely cross the street. Or lighting up the ground around the doors of a car so people don’t stumble in the dark. And if you can do whatever you want in a car, a dome light will not be enough. Osram lights up the entire headliner, and also has lighting built into the seats. By exploring concepts in better visibility, safety and styling, Osram has shown that traditional suppliers can play an important role with self-driving cars.

WAYMO SAYS AVS CLOSER THAN YOU THINK

Waymo showed off its proving grounds in California to the media. Journalists were impressed at how well its autonomous Chrysler Pacifica’s handled situations, like cars cutting it off, distracted pedestrians stepping in front of it, bicyclists riding erratically, and someone backing out of a driveway, not paying attention. Waymo’s CEO told the media that fully autonomous cars are a lot closer than most people think.

Coming up next, I’ll share my thoughts on the environmental downside of electric cars.

Electric cars are popularly called zero emission vehicles, but that is misleading. If we want to achieve true environmental sustainability then we can’t ignore all the energy that it takes to manufacture cars.

And it turns out that manufacturing batteries for electric cars is very energy intensive. They have to be baked at very high temperatures for six weeks. In fact, prismatic batteries have to be removed from the ovens after three weeks, slit open to de-gas them, then taped up and put back in the ovens for another three weeks. It takes so much energy to make them that the Union of Concerned Scientists says BEVs with 250 miles of range start out life with a carbon footprint 68 percent higher than a piston engine car. I imagine a BEV with a 370 mile range starts out life with a 100% greater carbon footprint.

Environmentalists argue that over its lifetime, an EV will make up that difference and come out cleaner than an internal combustion engine car. That’s generally true. But it also depends on the source of electricity. In regions where electricity is generated with fossil fuels it may never make up that difference. And this assumes the piston engine will not get cleaner than it is today—even though it will.

The point is, we need to adopt life-cycle emission standards that take into account all the emissions generated by a vehicle over its lifetime. That includes manufacturing a car, operating it, and recycling it.

And with that we wrap up today’s show, thanks for watching Autoline China.