21st September 2019
EP Desk

 

With the 200 hydrogen bikes offered to journalists and world leaders at the G7 summit in Biarritz proving popular, manufacturer Pragma Industries has received an order for 1,000 of them from Chilean president Sebastian Pinera. 

The company’s founder, Pierre Forté, wants the bike to have a societal impact in developing countries.

While companies such as Toyota and Daimler have been developing hydrogen-fueled cars for years, and in France the number of hydrogen buses used by local authorities is rising, major hydrogen companies have never considered bicycles as suitable for the fuel.

Pierre Forté, founder and CEO of Pragma Industries, thinks differently.

On the Alpha bike the Biarritz-based company is developing, it has been possible to achieve a match between gravimetric density – the energy stored per unit weight, which with hydrogen is very efficient – and the volumetric density, meaning the energy stored relative to the volume occupied by the system.

  


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