Today was an early start as our day started at 7am. Today was the final company tour and that tour was Audi. It took about an hour to get to their factory. This was the biggest factory we visited because this factory made and assembled the cars. Most of their assembly line was automated, in which a lot of the process was done by machines. This factory produced about 2,000 cars per shift and various car models as well. It was really impressive to see how efficient the process was from building the car from start to finish. I believe the reason why Audi has high automation is to make the process as fast as possible to get cars out to the market. This factory was one of their largest and in order to make the quota of cars per shift, they need efficiency and speed that isn’t possible by human hands. Audi has a lot of cool plans for the future of electric vehicles, but unfortunately I can’t disclose details about that.

After the factory tour, we did the tour of the Audi museum. The top floor was their oldest car models and when you went down a level, you went forward in time. It was really cool seeing the bottom level since at the bottom, there are experimental cars that might be possibly by 2030.

We also had a special guest talk with a person from Bloomberg, who was an expert in the car industry. He really helped give us insight into the car industry and answered a lot of our questions. I particularly asked that if electric cars and hydrogen cell cars could co-exist in a market or would one of them overtake each other. His answer was very interesting as he explained that electric car technology is more developed and far ahead of hydrogen cells and that hydrogen cells would only be good for trucks.

Today was another amazing day, although it scares me that we are already half way through the program. Time is going to fast. Also below is what I ate for dinner!