Hydrogen powered bike

"The Eco Speed concept started life in 2014 when design graduate Alexander Forst started studying the future of e-bike design, and found Canyon a willing partner in his plan to conceptualise the Eco Speed.

The Eco Speed is an e-bike, with a hydrogen fuel cell powertrain which powers an electric motor. The technology works by mixing hydrogen with oxygen, and will be sufficient to provide a 500 watt boost according to the concept brief."

http://road.cc/content/tech-news/170...e-bike-concept

On Tue, 10 Nov 2015 10:49:55 -0000, Alycidon wrote:

"The Eco Speed concept started life in 2014 when design graduate
Alexander Forst started studying the future of e-bike design, and found
Canyon a willing partner in his plan to conceptualise the Eco Speed.

The Eco Speed is an e-bike, with a hydrogen fuel cell powertrain which
powers an electric motor. The technology works by mixing hydrogen with
oxygen, and will be sufficient to provide a 500 watt boost according to
the concept brief."

http://road.cc/content/tech-news/170...e-bike-concept


I dunno how these people get away with this "Eco" label; Hydrogen is an
inefficient delivery fuel; it requires costs (wastage) in transforming
e.g. Hydrocarbons, or just possibly hydropowered electricity, and then has
it's own wastages in converting that into motion (in a combustion engine)
or even via a 2nd stage of electricity!

Not to mention storage and delivery of the lightest explosive gas in the
Universe!

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Bah, and indeed, Humbug

On 10/11/2015 10:49, Alycidon wrote:
"The Eco Speed concept started life in 2014 when design graduate
Alexander Forst started studying the future of e-bike design, and
found Canyon a willing partner in his plan to conceptualise the Eco
Speed.

No doubt powered by cyclists hot air.

On Tuesday, 10 November 2015 11:41:32 UTC, Kerr Mudd-John wrote:
On Tue, 10 Nov 2015 10:49:55 -0000, Alycidon wrote:

"The Eco Speed concept started life in 2014 when design graduate
Alexander Forst started studying the future of e-bike design, and found
Canyon a willing partner in his plan to conceptualise the Eco Speed.

The Eco Speed is an e-bike, with a hydrogen fuel cell powertrain which
powers an electric motor. The technology works by mixing hydrogen with
oxygen, and will be sufficient to provide a 500 watt boost according to
the concept brief."

http://road.cc/content/tech-news/170...e-bike-concept


I dunno how these people get away with this "Eco" label; Hydrogen is an
inefficient delivery fuel; it requires costs (wastage) in transforming
e.g. Hydrocarbons, or just possibly hydropowered electricity, and then has
it's own wastages in converting that into motion (in a combustion engine)
or even via a 2nd stage of electricity!

Not to mention storage and delivery of the lightest explosive gas in the
Universe!

We made it as a by product of CO production from natural gas, but it all went into making NH3.

On Tue, 10 Nov 2015 02:49:55 -0800 (PST), Alycidon
wrote:

The Eco Speed is an e-bike, with a hydrogen fuel cell powertrain which powers an electric motor

Given that the electric bike is already one where the range on a
modest battery with modest human assistance far exceeds the likely
range requirement for daily use fitting an expensive fuel cell doesn't
appear to do much of practical use.