I don't know if you remember a scene from the classic science fiction movie "Back to the Future 2" released in 1989. In the film, Martin and Dr. Brown are taken to the United States on October 21, 2015, by a DeLorean DMC-12, surrounded by taxis in the air, streets of all kinds of robots, and children rampaging on hoverboards.
Now we have come to the future depicted in the film, which originally designed the video/virtual reality player in the manuscript. Many technology companies already have similar products, Such as Microsoft's HoloLens, Samsung Gear VR, Google Cardboard, etc.
It is worth noting that in the footage of one of the arrests, the camera was suspended in the air, and the DJI drone, which can now shoot in high definition, is a similar device.
In the movie, a staff member holding a mobile payment device wants Martin to donate money for the restoration of the bell tower, and only needs to swipe his fingerprint to make the payment. Although fingerprint payment has not yet been widely used, mobile payments such as mobile phones have become very mature, and fingerprint recognition has also been applied in many fields. There's also a shot of using a TV to make a phone call! Nowadays, video calls on televisions have also been realized.
In Back to the Future 2, Jaws is out in its 19th installment, and it's a holographic movie, and the "shark" in the promotional film almost bites Martin. Real-life 3D movies have been realized, and naked-eye 3D and holographic movies are still being further explored.
In the "80s" retro restaurant, which is an important scene of "Back to the Future 2", a mobile display has become a "waiter".
In real life, mobile phone ordering is quite powerful, and the "waiter" in the movie is not the current unmanned food delivery truck? Yesterday I also saw the same model in the hall of Meizhou Dongpo.
Not long ago, Xiaopeng Technology Day said that the mass production version of the flying car will be unveiled as soon as 2024, that is to say, the vision of the future in the 1989 movie "Back to the Future 2" has almost all been realized.
And as one of the protagonists of this movie, the time machine , DeLorean DMC-12 , we have also introduced it many times,
This time, Porsche returned to the future on October 21 in overseas markets, and promoted its own Taycan model, which is indeed the era of pure electric vehicles! The era of fuel vehicles has passed.
With the passage of time, the two leading actors have also aged, and the time machine has been in the museum for tourists to visit and punch cards.
Do the Porsche Taycan Turbo S and DeLorean still have something in common? As a product of two eras one has a unique stainless steel body, but the power is old and vulnerable. The other, which has a strong power but less than satisfactory sales, has a four-wheel drive system with a maximum power of 762 horsepower and an acceleration time of 0-100 Km/h in just 2.8 seconds.
In fact, there is still one thing in common between the two of them! That's 1.21 GW!
What is this number? If you're an avid of the Back to the Future movie series, you're sure to be impressed by that number. This number is used to refer to the power required by Dr. Brown's invention of a time machine to travel through the past, the future, and return.
In the film, Martin's first piloting of the time machine takes place on October 21, 1985. With the film's hits, October 21 of each year is recognized by fans as "Back to the Future" Day.
On October 21, 2021, Porsche announced that its partnership with Electrify America, a subsidiary of Volkswagen Charging Networks, is progressing well.
The total power of the two charging networks of Electrify and Ionity in the United States and Europe reached 1.21 GW (in other words, 1.2·1 billion watts), which is exactly the 1.21 GW mentioned in Back to the Future!
I had the audacity to think that if the power of all the charging stations were pooled onto a single Porsche Taycan, it would be possible to achieve the same 1.21 GW as the "Time Machine".
So, what happens to this car? Isn't it really time travel? After all! Many of the futuristic technologies in the film have been realized, but time travel is the only one! Still a beautiful dream!