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We are in a race.
The race is against time.

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We have to build cities, we need them.

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But we have to make them
in a different way.

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We need a wave of innovation,

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not only for our way of life,
but also for the planet.

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The consequences would be enormous
if we lose this battle.

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The world has right now,
close to a billion cars,

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and we might double the number of cars
on the planet by 2050.

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We're going to need
transportation fuels for those.

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This has kicked off people looking at

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a whole range of other alternatives
to petroleum in your tank.

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Sugar cane to ethanol
is an incredibly efficient process.

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You get out about seven times the energy you put into growing the sugar cane.

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Imagine that you could have one process

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that could take in sunlight and carbon dioxide,
and turn it into fuel,

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and imagine that that didn't involve
growing anything at all.

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The cost of traffic is people's time,

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it's obviously money,

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it's fuel wasted.

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It's an emotional toll,
it's a frustration.

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If there's technology that would allow me
to spend less time in the car,

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and spend more time at home,

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I'd be all for that.

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If you took a satellite picture
of the highway,

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you can see that there's
actually a lot of open space.

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Maps in the future are going to
be able to help people

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get places either more safely,
or more efficiently.

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The vehicles will be intelligent.

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We will see completely
autonomous driven vehicles.

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Suddenly, mobility becomes
a whole other thing.

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The way we've been building cities lately
is unsustainable.

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We can't go on building them that way.

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Welcome to Masdar City.

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It's the world's first carbon-neutral city.

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We are driving in the bowels of Masdar City

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in an electric transportation system.

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Slightly unnerving to sit in this
for the first time.

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Where are we going?

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The whole scale here is based on
the human being,

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it's not based on the motor car.

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One thing that's very encouraging about Masdar, is it does represent


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a whole different value system.

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We're trying to do as much as possible,
with as little as possible.

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The payoff is

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"How can everything it's trying to do
matter in the rest of the world?"

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Research needs to be done now,

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and by as many people as possible.

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We have a long way to go,

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but I'm confident that we'll get there.