Goodbye to e-bikes — Up to 500Wh and 100 mile-range from this futuristic ‘hyper-bike’
Goodbye to e-bikes — Up to 500Wh and 100 mile-range from this futuristic ‘hyper-bike’
A futuristic hyper bike powered by hydrogen fuel could signify the end of electric bikes (e-bikes) for good, offering impressive refueling potential.
A futuristic hyper bike powered by hydrogen fuel could signify the end of electric bikes (e-bikes) for good, offering impressive refueling potential.
Stop. Trying. To. Make. Hydrogen. HAPPEN.
It's not going to happen, and even if it does in some small niche, it's not going to replace battery electric. Electricity is ubiquitous, H2 infrastructure is disappearing.
For now at least. Hydrogen would be a fantastic energy source for vehicles if we were at the point where renewable electricity was abundant and we could spare it to inefficiently make hydrogen locally, as the fuel cells are simple and don't require nearly as large of an amount of rare elements a battery does.
Because trying to convert all of the over 1.5 billion cars to electric with lithium batteries isn't really going to work either.Converting 1.5 billion cars to hydrogen isn't going to be any easier. Harder, I'd say. Especially as hydrogen storage still hasn't truly been solved.
What a terrible, wasteful idea. Cracking hydrogen out of water at home will waste so much electricity that you may as well just drive a damned car.
Idiotic propaganda probably paid for by the fossil fuel industry
I wonder who might benefit from attempting to steer people away from e-bikes and towards hydrogen, instead of technology that already works and might decrease car usage.
To build on that - despite bike companies trying their hardest to over complicate things - e-bikes are fairly straightforward to build, maintain and modify.
Tons of great (and safe but not cheap) DIY kits out there too which help make old bikes new again.
My e-bike is an old 90s MTB with a 220km range ( at the lowest assist level and 32km/hr top speed). That doesn’t include the benefits I get from regen braking when riding it in urban / suburban areas.
Whoever wrote that article is completely clueless. It's still an e-bike (literally says it has an electric motor), just with a hydrogen fuel cell for energy storage instead of a battery.
The credibility of Ecoticias is up in the air as they have a plethora of hydrogen fuel articles.
Hydrogen fuel is not currently a sustainable nor ecofriendly fuel.
Only 500Wh with two tanks? That's, at most, parity with a single lithium-ion battery e-bike; for the same weight too.
I've already bemoaned the non-existent journalism that exists with Ecoticias before, and my only regret is that because that prior post to Ecoticias three months ago was deleted, I cannot properly link to my earlier comment, which reads as follows:
Can we please stop linking to ecoticias? These articles are either AI-written, or have terrible copyeditors. Even just the title already shows a poor understanding of ebike terminology, as well as units. 180 Wh is a unit of energy that might describe a battery’s capacity. Whereas motors are rated in Watts (a unit of power) or horsepower for Americans.
Also, this particular topic is somewhat old, with a much better link showing up in this community last year: https://lemmy.world/post/12008344