Name: 這座小鎮禁止汽車！(除了超迷你電動車) 🚗💨 (This town banned cars (except tiny electric ones))
Uploaded: 2026-01-12T17:02:40.000Z
Duration: 5 min 59 s

One of the problems with urban planning is that change is difficult.

都市規劃的一個問題是變革很困難。

大部分城鎮都是以汽車為中心建造的。

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Many of them want to switch to something that's more transit friendly and walkable.

許多地方想轉變成更適合大眾運輸和步行的模式。

But it's a very slow and difficult process.

但這是一個非常緩慢且困難的過程。

What if your town was so inaccessible for so long that by the time it became possible for cars to drive in, the people decided they didn't want them?

如果你的城鎮長期以來都非常難以進入，等到汽車終於可以開進來時，居民們卻決定他們不想要汽車了呢？

This is Zermatt, a ski resort in the Alps in the southern Switzerland.

這裡是策馬特，位於瑞士南部阿爾卑斯山區的一個滑雪度假勝地。

There's no easy way past those mountains.

沒有輕鬆的路可以越過那些山。

it's narrow and twisting and only open if you get special permission and pay quite a large fee.

這條路很窄又彎曲，而且只有在獲得特別許可並支付高額費用後才能通行。

And even then you can't get into the town proper.

就算這樣，你也無法進入城鎮中心。

Instead, the next town over has a lot of parking and a train to shuttle tourists back and forth.

相反地，隔壁鎮有很大的停車場，還有火車可以接送遊客往返。

It used to be, but the only vehicles here were horse drawn carriages.

以前是這樣，但當時這裡唯一的交通工具是馬車。

But in the 1980s, Zermatt modernised jumping straight past petrol cars and internal combustion engines and going fully electric with some very specific requirements.

但在 1980 年代，策馬特進行了現代化，直接跳過了汽油車和內燃機，並在一些非常特定的要求下，全面採用電動車。

The hoteliers and all the builders and all the taxis, of course, can't go just by bicycle.

旅館業者、所有建築工人以及所有計程車當然不能只靠自行車。

So they ask the local government make the decision.

The business people have to send us the paper, why you need a vehicle, and

商人必須寄給我們文件，說明你為什麼需要車輛，

We give them permission maybe for three years, and if the business is running, he can keep it.

我們會給他們三年的許可證，如果生意做得起來，他就可以保留。

But if you are a person like Tom Scott, why you need one?

但如果你是像 Tom Scott 這樣的人，為什麼你需要一輛車？

Yeah, I live up here, it's very difficult to go up there.

對啊，我住在那邊，上去非常困難。

Then we would say, sorry, you can take a taxi.

那我們就會說，抱歉，你可以搭計程車。

All the deliverers, they have a car, but not the shops, also not the restaurants.

所有外送員都有車，但店家沒有，餐廳也沒有。

We are really strict that since 20 years we have around 520 vehicles.

我們規定非常嚴格，二十年來我們大約只有五百二十輛車。

If you grew up in Britain around the same time as I did, you might be thinking, those are milk floats.

如果你跟我一樣在英國長大，你可能會想，那些是送牛奶的車。

And yes, it's basically the same technology.

沒錯，技術上基本上是一樣的。

A battery electric vehicle with a very long service life, designed for decades of low speed use, to be fixed easily if it breaks and to make a minimum of noise.

一種電池電動車，使用壽命非常長，專為數十年的低速使用而設計，損壞時易於維修，並且噪音最小。

In the 20th century, British dairies used fleets of vehicles like that for delivering bottles of milk to millions of homes every morning.

在二十世紀，英國的酪農業會用這種車隊每天早上把牛奶瓶送到數百萬戶家庭。

Which seems weird these days, but then so does a lot of the 20th century.

聽起來現在有點奇怪，但二十世紀很多事情聽起來都怪怪的。

Zermatt here used these vehicles for everything.

Taxis are the most obvious one, but buses, trucks, the police car, they all look like that.

計程車最明顯，但公車、卡車、警車，看起來都一樣。

And many of them were designed and built locally by a company just over there that started out with horse drawn taxis.

很多都是由旁邊一家公司在地設計和製造的，他們一開始是從馬車計程車起家的。

In the 17th, my father, he was a horse driver.

在十七世紀，我爸爸是個馬車司機。

We had some electric cars with a platform, but nothing for transport people.

我們有一些帶平臺的電動車，但沒有用來載人的。

And then my father, he did buy, with a company near Zurich, an electric car for transport people.

然後我爸爸，他跟蘇黎世附近一家公司買了一輛用來載人的電動車。

And then later on, in 1985, I did come to my brother and we did start with the factory steamboat.

然後到了 1985 年，我來找我哥哥，我們一起開始了工廠蒸汽船。

We are building in a year about 10 to 15 cars.

我們一年大約生產 10 到 15 輛車。

And to build an electric car for a small company like we are, it's not so easy here.

對我們這樣的小公司來說，在這裡打造電動車並不是那麼容易。

And what you can see there, that's a new electric car.

在那邊你看到的，就是一輛新的電動車。

This one is the new generation with lithium ion batteries.

這款是採用鋰離子電池的新一代產品。

Before, we did work with batteries in lead, and

now with the lithium ion batteries, everything, it's very easy.

現在有了鋰離子電池，一切都變得非常容易。

You can drive with this lithium ion technology 2, 3 hours through.

用這種鋰離子技術，你可以輕鬆開上兩三個小時。

These electric cars, they are all handmade, I can tell you.

我可以告訴你，這些電動車都是手工打造的。

So every piece you see at this car, we have them many times in our hands.

所以你看到的這臺車的每一個零件，我們都親手處理過很多次。

The other people say the market is not big enough.

這就是為什麼我們可以自己打造。

The lifetime of these electric cars, it's about 30, up to 50 years.

這些電動車的壽命，大約是 30 年，甚至可以到 50 年。

然後用鋁的話，我們現在會有生鏽的問題。

It took me a while to notice something as I walked around Zermatt.

我在策馬特走動時，花了點時間才注意到一件事。

In every city, in every town, there is a constant quiet roar of traffic noise from somewhere.

在每個城市、每個城鎮，總會從某個地方傳來持續不斷、細微的車流噪音。

But right now, of course, that's very difficult to demonstrate because there's construction, there's the rush of the river that's really audible from this vantage point.

但現在當然很難示範，因為有施工，而且這個河水的奔騰聲從這個有利位置聽起來非常清楚。

It's carrying all the glacier melt water down the valley.

它正載著所有的冰川融水流下山谷。

But at night, when everything's calm, there's no traffic noise.

但在晚上，當一切平靜時，就沒有交通噪音了。

雖然我知道這只是一次性的，而且

I know it only works because this is a smooth, small, rich and very expensive ski resort with a weird history that's outsourced its parking to the next town over, I can't help thinking that it'd be nice if more towns and cities sounded like that.

我知道這之所以可行，是因為這是一個平坦、小巧、富裕且非常昂貴的滑雪勝地，它將停車業務外包給了下一個鎮，但我忍不住想，如果更多城鎮聽起來像那樣就好了。

When I tell people from Switzerland we are living in a town without petrol cars.

我告訴瑞士人我們住的鎮上沒有汽油車時，

They said, how you manage by bicycle or by foot or by bus?

他們說，你們要怎麼騎自行車、走路或搭公車？

But if you are in this system, then it's so normal.

但如果你在這個系統裡，那就太正常了。