
Hidden High Tech: Super-Technologies for the Mobility of Tomorrow
Roughly 4 billion people fly each year and about 1 billion cars share the world's roads, numbers this film uses to frame a simple question: how does mobility keep growing without wrecking the climate. The answer, it argues, is mostly invisible, buried in manufacturing processes rather than in the vehicles themselves. Engineers at the Swiss firm Oerlikon walk through industrial-scale 3D metal printing and advanced coatings developed for engine components used in cars, aircraft, and spacecraft, showing how lighter, more durable parts cut fuel use and emissions before a vehicle ever leaves the factory. Interviews with company experts explain why a coating on a turbine blade or a printed bracket under an engine cover matters more to a car's carbon footprint than most drivers realize. The film sets this hidden engineering against the backdrop of climate activism, from Fridays for Future to Greta Thunberg, and digitalization reshaping entire industries. It stays close to the factory floor and the components themselves, treating manufacturing technology as the overlooked half of the mobility story.