Inventor Hugo Spowers has a dream: to replace today’s cars with his own hydrogen prototype.
Fuel cells work by electrochemically combining hydrogen, stored in a pressurized tank, with air to generate an electric current; the only emission is water vapor. Development of fuel cell technology has been slow. They are expensive to produce (platinum is a key component), as is hydrogen.
In 2016, Spowers unveiled his first production-ready car: the Rasa, a radical, ultra-light two-seater powered by a hydrogen fuel cell. Spowers hopes to have the car on the market in 2019. “As far as we can tell,” he says, “we are the only independent hydrogen car startup in the world.”
Read the article at The Guardian.