She is one of Germany`s most renowned actresses: Martina Gedeck earned her outstanding reputation in movies like the Oscar-winning “The Lives of Others” or “Bella Martha”. She is noted for her careful choice of roles and her sincere screen incarnations of characters – which she impressively demonstrates again as Ulrike Meinhof and Clara Schumann in movies coming up this year.When it comes to environmental matters, Martina Gedeck is no less sincere, as she told us when we met her at the Brandenburger Hof Hotel in Berlin. This is one of the reasons why she gave us her testimonial about the BMW Hydrogen 7 which she used for several months. Watch our video interview!

A few days before the TED-Conference 2008 started, Club of Pioneers celebrated its own event in Berlin and presented various mobility ideas. Andreas Adam of BMW explained the CleanEnergy agenda and the Hydrogen 7. Check out our video!

It was a great night for our community: Club of Pioneers celebrated a big party in Berlin and invited some amazing mobility experts: Watch our Videoclip to get an impression of the event, and see more of the fantastic mobility concepts like the Clever, the Ventomobil and the BMW Hydrogen 7... and share in our excitement that Club of Pioneers has been selected as of 365 landmarks around Germany chosen by the initiative Germany - Land of Ideas. Thank you, pioneers!!!We were also lucky to have a live crossing to pioneer Erik Schmitt, Louis Palmer and the Solartaxi in Australia. You can watch their video greeting here.

It was a premier and a kick off at the same time – the first Club of Pioneers ‘The Editors invite’ event took place in Frankfurt, Germany during the IAA. Thanks to our pioneers and experts from the automobile industry, the night was a great success and we had so much fun that....it won’t be long until the next event and you can be part of it. An event-series worldwide is already in the planning process.Watch our first community clip....

All together 25 pioneers attended at rather short notice to meet and mingle with the Club of Pioneers’ editorial team, the experts from BMW and Loremo in the small restaurant “Blumen” (Flowers) at night.

The pioneers at the restaurant "Blumen"
The program was rather short on purpose: just 7 minutes was all Anton Reisinger, Clean Energy BMW, and Gerhard Heilmaier, CEO of Loremo, got to present their company’s core vision of future mobility and kick off the discussion among the pioneers. Both did a great job, which was proved by the fact that hands-on pioneering took place during the event. Together with Heilmaier, our pioneers developed a design for the new Loremo prototype – all on a piece of paper and drawn by hand!

Anton Reisinger, BMW, explaining the Hydrogen 7Life size and no longer just a vision, two Hydrogen 7 cars were parked in front of the restaurant - ready to take the pioneers for a test drive. And yes, when taking a closer look there is nothing else than water vapour coming out of the exhaust….

Pioneer Boris who just can't believe it...During the day the pioneers also had the chance to visit the Frankfurt Motor Show, IAA, together with the Club of Pioneers team. The team set up dates for presentations, for example with Honda explaining their fuel cell vehicle being released on to the market (US and Japan) by the end of 2008.

Pioneers on stage with the Honda fuel cell vehicle

BMW presented its vision of future mobility with the Efficient Dynamics program. The agenda of the Bavarian carmaker entails three steps. First: The increase in efficiency in the existing one, three and five series. Secondly: The hybridization of the vehicle, shown in the Concept X6 ActiveHybrid. Thirdly: In the long run BMW believes in the hydrogen technology implemented and presented in Frankfurt in the Hydrogen 7.

In the last 30 years the sustainable car development made huge progresses. Brian Cox talks about the fuel cell van NECAR1 of Mercedes, the Toyota Prius, the Tesla Roadster, the HONDA FCX and the Hydrogen 7 by BMW. All these cars mark the milestones in contemporary sustainable car development.

Christiane Paul is a multi-tasker in the truest sense of the word: She is one of Germany's most successful actresses (winner of the golden camera) and is heavily involved in many charity projects. She is a trained medical doctor, worked as a model, is a happy mum and for a short time - pioneering ambassador for the BMW hydrogen technology. During the BMW event “Markenschaufenster” in Munich, she was handed the key to her new H7.
Paul describes herself as an environmental activist, which is highlighted by her active membership of the “Nature alliance” (Naturallianz), founded by the German minister of the environment Sigmar Gabriel. In this interview with Club of Pioneers she talks about her motivation to test drive the Hydrogen 7 and what else she personally does to live an environmentally friendly way of life.
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