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Engineering the Future (Season 2)

6 episodes 93%4KCC

Visionary engineers rethink transport, energy, cities, space, and virtual worlds.

Explore a season of bold ideas shaping tomorrow, from ultra-efficient electric vehicles and wireless charging roads to renewable energy storage, mass timber towers, and smarter satellites. Each episode reveals how determined inventors and engineers tackle real constraints with remarkable machines and new systems. Sign up to see how these breakthroughs could reshape everyday life.

Episode guide

6 episodes
1
1Electric Vehicles
This film follows the emerging world of Electric Vehicles, the infrastructure needed for them, and the radical change we must make to the way we think about transport.
52 min
2
2The Metaverse
Some episodes of ETF are about entire industries, some about individual companies. This episode is different, it's about an idea, the Metaverse. The Metaverse is the successor to the internet. It will change the lives of almost every human on the planet.
52 min
3
3Hyperloop
Virgin Hyperloop is a train that runs inside a steel tunnel. This revolutionary new vehicle floats along the track using magnetic levitation and glides at airline speeds for long distances due to ultra-low aerodynamic drag. It's fully autonomous and enclosed.
52 min
4
4The Race to Space
A new era of space is dawning where small satellites no bigger than a shoebox will be deployed not in one or twos, but in their thousands - referred to as satellite swarms.
52 min
5
5Perpetual Power
All over the world, engineers and scientists are racing to solve one key problem; how to safely and efficiently store electricity at a huge scale but at a low cost. The quest is producing some truly remarkable ideas and this episode details three of them.
52 min
6
6Timber Skyscraper
Construction currently accounts for a staggering percentage of the world’s energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. This film explores the mind-blowing world of timber buildings for a more sustainable future.
52 min
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