Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “I tried a FLYING EV! The future with SK Group”.
This video is sponsored by SK. I for a second think about all new electronics that you bought in the past, like 12 months. Think about all the stuff you’ve read about that’s coming out over the next two three four years from cell phones to EVS to TVs and everything in between you think about those new products. You read about them.
You watch videos on those new products, but you don’t always like think about realistically about what’s inside of those products, and I think that’s where a show like CES is probably the coolest thing going for those that really know technology, because you get to sort of learn About the companies that make all these products that we love work and that’s why I am at the SK Booth here again, it’s CES 2023 SK is in absolutely everything, but it might be a company you haven’t heard of uh they’re, actually, the second largest conglomerate in All of South koreas, we are talking very large, and the footprint in the U.S is getting even larger, but beyond all of that, like I said they are in products that you know products you love and I guarantee you products that you use and that’s fine. What they’re, showing is a glimpse of products that you are going to use that you are going to love and you are going to buy. Let me show you what’s going to be in your house in the next few years, but before I get to more electric awesomeness, I want to do this. My favorite thing I’ve been buying for a while. Now I don’t want to stop it. I want to give you guys a chance to win 500 bucks for being awesome for being amazing for being generally stupendous human beings. So the requirement this is a big one. Got ta live on planet Earth as long as you are here, you’ve got a chance to win. Leave a comment down below.
Just tell me a really good dad joke be sure to leave your social handle in the comments. So I can contact you if and when you win we’ll let it run for 10 days, but all the information will be in the description. So a lot of like stuff in the home but like let’s start before you get home your garage, your driveway, and just to generally, where you are living, so you can have batteries in your house right now. You can have solar in your house right now.
You can have EVS I’ve been an EV driver for 12 years. This is something I’ve lived with and sort of learned to adapt with, but what’s changing is that now the house in your home can adapt to you instead of completely the other way around. That’S something that is really new. I think kind of Paradigm thrifting that we’re seeing here at the SK Booth, it’s CES 2023.
So let’s go back to the garage, so you pull in with your new EV. We’Ve got SK batteries built inside, and these are batteries that are already established. These are in cars right now. These are in trucks that are saving people during power outages in the midwest. This is tried and true technology, except for the difference that these are actually made in the U.S, so these Home Products, the battery products are all us made.
I mentioned. Sk is huge in South Korea. They actually have around 5 000 U.S based employees and plan to get even more as we go, so you’ve got a home battery charger. Now it’s a beautiful Cove charger. Uh actually doesn’t look like a brown box on a wall anymore. Of course it’s smart. It’S connected plug that into your EV and that could have solid state batteries uh in the future, but waste a quick charge and, more importantly, vehicle to grid be able to power.
Your house, from the car solar panels on your roof kind of completing the circle of sustainability, and it’s something that I was sitting here talking to the folks from SK that they really believe in last year. They actually pledged to remove 200 million tons of carbon from the environment by 2030., so they said it publicly and they’re a big company. So when you say something publicly like that, you got to stand behind it, you got to do it and then we’re kind of seeing the first steps it’s actually making that a reality. Instead of reducing things that are burning, fossil fuels are a really good way and a good first step to get there, but right now we’re still just in your garage right.
So all your batteries, everything working together, sort of make all that work. But then you want to leave if you want to go out elsewhere. How are you going to charge your evening? Transition to EVS is clearly happening. Almost every major manufacturer is sort of committed to doing that.
I think for a lot of people. It’S nerve-wracking right like how are you going to charge that thing, and here are these stories of chargers, not working Chargers, breaking down you’re on a road trip, and it’s not going to put the juice back in your pack? That’S real and it’s I don’t know it’s kind of scary. It’S happened to me on a recent road trip. Sk is trying to put that fear to rest they’re, actually showing a production ready, 400 kilowatt charger that can juice up even the largest pack.
In a matter of minutes, so you have a company, that’s making the batteries making the Chargers, they know how the chemistry Works. They know how to charge them properly for longevity. But again, if a company that’s committed to removing 200 million tons of carbon waste sort of making all this stuff is only part of the equation right, you have to be able to recycle it as well to make sure that that sort of Soul cycle is complete. Sk’S also really committed to battery recycling, so it’s recycling those things as they get older, reach the end of life even down to recycling cell phones uh, for example, so from production to recycle sort of every step of the product’s life for for energy and home solutions.
It’S cool to see really big commitment here behind that, so there are home Chargers. There are apartment Chargers again all made in the U.S there’s also a home Battery Solution as well sort of complete that whole cycle so get the power from the Sun charge. Your car then be able to power. Your house, and obviously it’s not sunny out foreign like everybody’s goal, was eventually to get like a zero carbon lifestyle. No one’s like actively trying to just dump tons of carbon out there, but it’s little steps to kind of get there. One thing you might not like give a lot of thought to is like your windows and then what’s on top of your windows. If it’s curtains, it’s blinds mini blinds, uh, whatever it might be, Shades that you are drawing um paleo is Smart Glass. It’S actually electrochromic.
If you want to get like technical, but I think smart glass is the term that everybody knows right. It’S going to tint. If you wanted to untense, if you don’t want it to all that stuff, we’ve kind of seen before, but this is where it gets – smart there’s actually a camera on top of that building. So, whether it’s your home office building apartment building, I don’t know, maybe you built a super cool house uh and it’s going to sort of detect things like weather and if it’s super bright out, it’ll tint it more for you.
We can control it. Obviously, from your phone from an app from a switch even with smart home accessories – and you can go from like dark to light like full dark work, it’s a full light in about three minutes. So you don’t need shutters. You don’t need blinds if you ever worked in office building you’re constantly trying to do like this thing to kind of get around the light or see your computer.
This solves that, and it also is like a really cool use of Technology. It’S a little bit of a flex, but I think it’s the right kind of flex and honestly, if you know me, you know I’m all for it. So smart glass technology, that’s like here now, uh there is technology that could come in the future. You think about cars, usually think of what you get in like you drive it, but the definition of a car could be very different.
Uh SK is envisioning, obviously an electronic sort of vertical and takeoff EV. I got it virtual reality. Tour where I kind of cruised around a future version of Busan, South Korea, so first of all the VR stuff was incredible. My stomach dropped a few times around some turns, but it’s cool to see and kind of experience, but probably the not too distant future Mobility.
Uh is going to look like so from flying to charging like delivering packages, there’s kind of an option for uh for everything. So if all this sounds like a future, you want to be a part of. You can actually learn more and check out all of this stuff, plus a bunch more at SK dot com, we’ll link to those down below too.
So that’s just like one like small piece of like a big future pie and it’s really cool to see what that’s going to look like from a sustainability standpoint from a technology standpoint from a transportation standpoint. This is stuff that is real and is coming very soon, and all the technology is going to be a regular part of our lives and not distant future. What’S even cooler than that is how it’s going to fade into the background of our lives and just become the present .