The British hydrogen car manufacturer wants to start the commercial production of its eco couple, the Rasa, in 2023 and a lightweight commercial van the following year.
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Its innovative mobility solution could help diversify the transportation sector and provides a means to fully integrate hydrogen-fuelled vehicles into the automotive industry.
In the announcement, the companies said Riversimple will gain access to a huge bank of programmes and resources which will support the company in mass producing its hydrogen vehicles.
Riversimple: Rethinking hydrogen mobility
For fuel cell technology to work in mobility, Hugo Spowers, founder of sustainable car company Riversimple, believes you need to make a car with a different structural arrangement, with different materials and with a different business model.
“Fuel cells are totally different to combustion engines; you can’t persuade a fuel cell to behave like a petrol engine. If you’re really going to work with the characteristics of hydrogen, you’ve got to rethink how we build cars,” Spowers said.
And that’s exactly what he set out to do when he founded Riversimple, then OSCar Automotive, in 2001. Spowers has plans to manufacture 10,000 hydrogen-powered fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) a year, but he has no intention of selling them – more on that later.
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