corona virus and electric mobility
by Mortimer Schulz #hydrochan
In 2020, I planned to go on a road trip from Austria to The Netherlands the electric way, but then Corona appeared and I had to postpone the trip. So, I am resorting to travel the digital way for now. This blog is about finding new solutions; and from time-to-time I update my findings, as nothing is static. One quick thought: when I was a child, we once drove a Toyota Corona.
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In the past twelve months, Corona led us increasingly to resort to digital solutions. I used video conferencing more often, just to name an example. However, to become digitally fit it does take more than that, and, I am just at the beginning. Since I am no expert, I approached a digital expert company to guide me, and I look forward to work together with them. The company is called axtesys, and the boss is a good friend and trusted partner. In the past, Markus and his team have provided IT services for my company to my full satisfaction. Now, I want to become digital.
They are based in Graz, Austria, located roughly 20 minutes from the hydrogen refuelling station. In the city of Graz, one generally goes by bicycle, takes the tram or walks, and for longer distances the axtesys team also drives an electric car. They develop tailor-made software for websites, apps and even management systems according to your needs. One key element why I think makes them special is that they advise at the right level of your digital maturity. The blog this link logo below refers to is in the German language for the while, but contact me or them directly anytime with any questions. For their website directly: www.axtesys.at.
As a first step, I am thinking about how to get my services online and into the internet, and for that I am considering different possibilities of which I listed two examples I like below. Later, I am also thinking maybe of some calculation tools online to do with my electric and hydrogen driving across Europe, planning trips, comparing specs and so on. Ultimately, I want to answer myself the question whether it is possible to resort to an auxiliary world, such as the virtual internet, in times of crises, pandemics and other forces that turn my home office into an office home. Not only our world changes, but our future does so, too.
First, I resort to a vineyard (which some readers might know from my SIX SENSES-blogs and whom I have been visiting for some wine tasting with FCEVs in the past). Schloss Gobelsburg in Kamptal, Austria, also has a charging station for electric cars, and I just absolutely enjoy the wine tasting there. As I cannot drive to their vineyard during Corona right now, they are however delivering if you order online. This is the Wine List, and there is a button to write to Email Schloss Gobelsburg. In fact, I find that very effective indeed. Plus, in case you would like the wine to be delivered to Vienna, Austria, on Tuesdays and Thursdays there are no charges for the delivery at the moment. The 5th Blog.
Then, there is the possibility of the online shop, which is also something I would consider, because the different products are so nicely categorised and the overview is so good. Whether it is for flowers, food or drink or slow food, artconforms ceramics is located in Korneuburg, also Lower Austria, and it’s spectacular design brings together purposeful usefulness with esthetics, similar to some of the electric and hydrogen cars I drove. It is really worth to take a look and to just be inspired. In (not to say, changing) times of home office, what do we do, we explore the digital world; more than before.
Anyone reading this, please send me your suggestions for which I should be grateful to take a look as well and I always look forward to have a dialogue.
Well, to me it seems that we have to wait until the Corona storm is over. And, that is not to say that there are not a couple of other storms that have been lingering or idling for a while and that may resume, without me going into any detail at this point, for suffice it to say that we need to deal with our Only Planet. But, until such time, we might as well already prepare for what will come after the storm (which is what everybody seems to want, at least on the surface), let us call it the ‘post-new normal’. We can only do that in a digital way, and we do not stop.
Also, what is worth a thought I find, right now we have to think using two brains. One that has the Corona cloud over our head (finding a way out of this so-called ADQ autonomous digital quarantine, a term I coined), and the other one without the cloud (as if there was no Corona and had never been). The sooner we accept that there are now two realities all over the world, the faster we will be ready for future pandemics to come, whenever they may come, after we will have had mastered Corona. And, when the cloud is gone, I want to drive again, and I am going to go visit places again, and report my new and additional findings. Until then, I travel in the digital way, and hope you stay tuned to what I got to say (feedback of course always welcome and appreciated). And, at the end of the day, I am sorry to say, Corona is a reboot for all generations, especially the young ones; but that is a whole ‘nother blog.
Updated / Vision 7.1: 25 January, 2021
