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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We’re big fans of Audi A2 e-tron and its aerodynamic design. (Worlds apart from the HEAVY 3.885kg EV Range Rover). The original Audi A2 is an icon – it’s a mule for our ZELLOR project, thanks to its low-drag, low-weight design. www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/ele...

autocar.co.uk

Audi A2 returns: Mega-efficient EV costs from £32k, offers up to 400 miles | Autocar

New EV follows trail blazed by 1990s supermini with big range and wind-cheating design

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

🗞️ The Engineer covers the £1.7M ZELLOR project – and how we are tackling the thus far ‘elusive’ combination of light weight, long range + zero emissions. 👇 www.theengineer.co.uk/content/news...

theengineer.co.uk

Riversimple's ZELLOR lightweighting project nets £1.7m grant - The Engineer

Hydrogen carmaker Riversimple is leading a new £1.7m project to develop a lightweight & long range zero emission vehicle

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

⚡Renewable technology needs many times more critical materials than a hydrocarbon-based world – for wind turbines, solar PV, batteries. 🔋Let’s use critical minerals sparingly in cars – where there are alternatives to big batteries. H2 fuel cell cars use far fewer critical materials.

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Executive summary – The Role of Critical Minerals in Clean Energy Transitions – Analysis - IEA

The Role of Critical Minerals in Clean Energy Transitions - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

😀 Canada announces incentives for both fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) and battery electric vehicles (BEVs) 😭 No mention of H2 refuelling – in contrast to a CAD$1.5bn package for EV charging... www.h2-view.com/story/canada...

h2-view.com

Canada includes hydrogen FCEVs in EV incentives, omits refuelling support

Canada will offer incentives for hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) purchases under the government’s new automotive strategy, despite no support for hydrogen refuelling.

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

🚗💧 ⚡️ Read more about @keeleuniversity.bsky.social #greenhydrogen project – which is fueling two H2 Toyota Mirais with surplus renewable energy. ‘...it won’t take much’ for the UK to reach mass green hydrogen production 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Keele University research shows hydrogen fuel can replace petrol and diesel?

Keele University runs cars with green hydrogen, whose only emission is water, but can the fuel be made available across the UK?

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

We’re looking for a Customer Custodian to join our unique governance team – someone with the conviction that businesses can serve both the planet and people. Find out more here 👉 tinyurl.com/yc4dm68y #Governance

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Investment by big firms like BMW, Toyota + incoming infra in Europe are a tipping point for #hydrogen vehicles – challenging the ‘naysayers.’ The piece also characterises these developments as a last chance; but we view it as good, long term business strategy 👇 www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/tec...

autocar.co.uk

BMW bets big on hydrogen – but is it the fuel's last chance to work? | Autocar

BMW's third-gen fuel cell system will enter production in 2028

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

⛽️ 𝗛𝘆𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹, 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲 + 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁: 💧Takes a few mins to refuel 💧If you can’t charge at home (around half of Brits) H2 is ✅ 💧Existing forecourts can be adapted for H2 💧Infrastructure has been slow to come, but it’s gaining traction Why we choose H2 👉 www.riversimple.com?s=why+hydrogen

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

“𝘼𝙙𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙥𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙛𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨. 𝙎𝙪𝙗𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙚𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙛𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚.” Colin Chapman. The Rasa is lightweight – under 700kgs – this is 🗝️ to efficiency. We got there with: 🟰𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹𝘀 🪶𝗠𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 💧𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲: In our case? An H2 fuel cell.

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

🇩🇪Last week, the Federal and Bavarian governments announced a letter of intent for €273 million for the BMW HyPowerDrive project, with fuel cell cars to come onto the market in 2028 👇 #HydrogenCars fuelcellsworks.com/2025/11/14/f...

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Cardiff is the first UK council to charge more for parking big cars. ☝️London, it’s your turn… 🚙💨 Heavy cars like SUVs = more pedestrian fatalities, less space for others, higher resource consumption, higher energy consumption on the road and more NEEs – whatever powertrain is used. #Hydrogencars

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Thrilled to have Monty Foley-Williamson from green hydrogen providers Protium at our HQ in Wales today 🚗💧 📸With Monty is Jim Emery, responsible for our refueller in Abergavenny. 💧☀️⚡️ #GreenHydrogen

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

👥 🚗The Riversimple daily 'Startup' meeting on #WorldHydrogenDay! Our vehicles are still providing the most impressive data on our hydrogen fuel cell powertrains; so we’re celebrating H2 this morning, with some routine testing after our meeting.

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

🚗🇩🇪We spent some excellent time in Germany last week at the world’s largest integrated manufacturing site for automotive coatings – BASF Coatings HQ in Münster for their Circular event day 👇

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

💡We're in the Yoke whitepaper on climate tech adoption – along with dozens of expert voices that share insights on how to move world-changing solutions from pilot, to proof. 👉https://www.yokedesign.studio/bridging-the-gap-innovation-to-adoption-white-paper #Hydrogen

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Big vehicles have a heavy cost. For every life saved by being in an SUV or pickup truck, 4.3 other lives are lost; for the heaviest 1% of SUVs or trucks, this ratio soars to 12:1. We’re opting out of the pointless race towards ever vehicle size and power. #RoadPeace #FCEV #Autobesity

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

We’re developing a subscription service for our vehicles – this is a move away from vehicle ownership towards an all-inclusive, simplified and clean driving experience ➡ www.riversimple.com/subscription/ #MaaS

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗮𝘀𝗮 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗮 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗹, 𝟭𝟮𝗸𝗪 𝗳𝘂𝗲𝗹 𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗹 🔋💧 Fuel cells use far fewer critical + rare materials than the batteries used in battery electric vehicles. Our fuel cells use the same amount of platinum as an ICE catalytic converter, and the platinum can be 100% recovered and re-used at end of life.

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

🎙️ 〰️ Hugo Spowers MBE joined the latest London Futurists podcast – exploring the adventurous origin story of Riversimple and the the ultimate adrenalin-heavy activity – heading up a pre-revenue start up…👇 #Hydrogen londonfuturists.buzzsprout.com/2028982/epis...

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The remarkable potential of hydrogen cars, with Hugo Spowers - London Futurists

The guest in this episode is Hugo Spowers. Hugo has led an adventurous life. In the 1970s and 80s he was an active member of the Dangerous Sports Club, which invented bungee jumping, inspired by an in...

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Hydrogen Bay Swansea – held at the birthplace of the fuel cell – never disappoints. Thanks to all involved and looking forward to next year… #Hydrogen

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

🏭 Inbuilt obsolescence, depreciation and overcomplexity dominate the current economic system and manufacturing. ♾️ We’re working to a completely different model, a truly circular one – with Mobility as a Service hydrogen cars, made with long-lasting, serviceable components and closed loops.

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

👀The #hydrogen Rasa turned heads and garnered much attention on the streets outside the @sciencemuseum.org.uk in London yesterday for @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.socialand Wicked Acceleration Labs

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

☠️ Air pollution is the largest environmental threat to human health. 🚗💨 Cars + vans are the biggest source of emissions. 🚗💧Our #hydrogen electric cars emit nothing but a drop a water from the tailpipe, and as the Rasa is so light and efficient, very low NEEs. Clean Air Day 2025 🌤️

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

✈ The Rasa is designed to slip through the air with minimal resistance, critical for energy efficiency. ⌳ Our car tapers at the rear to aid airflow ⏥The underside is as smooth as the rest of the body for low drag ⍈ The rear is square to allow the air to break away from the car cleanly.

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

𝗜𝘀 #𝗵𝘆𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘃𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲𝘀? Yes. It’s as safe as, or safer than, any other fuels – and confirmed to be so by authorities in Europe and the US, where it is heavily regulated.

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

𝗪𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗴𝗶𝗴𝗮𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀. ✅ Making cars from advanced composites, our minimum efficient scale of production is c.2% of that of conventional auto manufacturers, for whom a steel press tool costs around £1bn.

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

We’re well into UK Clean Air Month, and we’ve been enjoying a fresh, zero-emission drive in our hydrogen powered fuel cell car, the Rasa. The Rasa weighs in at around 660kg. This means low particulate emissions, as well as zero from the tailpipe. 🪻

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Wᴇ’ʀᴇ ʟɪᴠɪɴɢ ʙᴇʏᴏɴᴅ ᴏᴜʀ ᴍᴇᴀɴꜱ. #UKEarthOvershootDay is the date when Overshoot Day would fall if all of humanity consumed at the same level as the people in the UK. We need big plans, bold action + new ways of doing things. And simply, to use less. overshoot.footprintnetwork.org/newsroom/cou...

overshoot.footprintnetwork.org

Country Overshoot Day 2025 calendar

The Country Overshoot Day 2025 calendar shows the dates by which humanity would have used up everything Earth can renew for that year, if all people consumed at the level of that country.

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

🤔Do you know where this is? We get around over the years…

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

⚡️The Rasa uses supercapacitors for acceleration + storing recovered energy. ♾️ When the car brakes, kinetic energy normally lost in the form of heat is captured as ⚡️ and as the car slows, this floods into the supercaps + is sent back to the motors, allowing acceleration from 0-60 in 9.5 secs.

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

🚗 ♾️ “Recyclable composites are one of the critical elements for us in the future. I don’t believe we can ever have a sustainable industrial system that is dependent on continuous consumption of finite resources.” Watch this REPOXYBLE case study 📺 👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKf8...

youtube.com

REPOXYBLE use case: hydrogen car - Interview with Riversimple

YouTube video by Airi - Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca Industriale

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

We're at the #ClimateImpactSummit at the Royal Institution in London today...

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

🔋🆚💧❓ “We don’t argue about whether solar PV or wind turbines, which one is going to win the renewable energy race. They’re just different, and we need them both. The same is true of batteries and hydrogen.” Hugo Spowers on the Kantar “Sustainable Futures” podcast 🎧 www.kantar.com/campaigns/su...

kantar.com

Sustainable Futures podcast

The sustainability podcast for marketers and business leaders.

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

♾️ By building a completely different sort of car on the back of a truly circular MaaS business model, we have an opportunity to achieve a system-level breakthrough on critical material supply, car obesity, air quality, road safety, water quality, and Chinese competition. #CircularEconomy

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

👨🏻‍🔧Motorsports engineers were a core part of our Alpha vehicle engineering team. Like F1 cars, our vehicles are built with strong, lightweight composite materials – not steel. 🪶The Rasa’s 72kg carbon fibre monocoque chassis = structural integrity, lightness + strength, + doesn’t corrode.

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

It’s Earth Day today 🌍🌎🌏 This year’s @earthdayorg.bsky.social #OurPlanetOurPower reminds us that we can 𝓪𝓵𝓵 be powerful agents of change. Our mission is to deliver personal mobility with zero environmental impact. This is ambitious, but every decision we take is towards this goal.

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Happy Easter | Pasg Hapus to all of our team, partners, investors, community members and beta-customers 🐥🌼

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

♾️ We’re a circular business, and will only offer our cars via a subscription service. Mobility as a Service (#Maas) – in our case it means we design 𝘰𝘶𝘵 inbuilt obsolescence and design 𝘪𝘯 longevity, efficiency and quality without endlessly requiring quantities of new critical materials.

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

“𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆” 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆, 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘂𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 + 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘆. “It’s only fair if you want to buy a massive SUV that you should expect to pay more for the space it takes up.” 👇 www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/campaig...

fleetnews.co.uk

Campaigners call for parking charges to be based on car size

Academics also suggest policymakers could increase taxes for heavier cars and that local authorities could adjust parking policies to charge higher fees.

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

🌍 We live on a planet with finite resources, yet we act like we don’t know this. 🏭 The car industry: inbuilt obsolescence, depreciation + overcomplexity – durability, longevity + resource preservation are rare. ♾️ We’ve designed our cars to last, with resource preservation front of mind.

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

🌳 Day 2: @anthropyuk.bsky.social National Gathering – we’ve been productive with discussions, test drives, reconnecting with peers + making new friends. Tomorrow: Hugo on ‘Future of Automotive: Alternative Fuels, Autonomy, + Sustainability.’ 12.30pm | Infinity Blue | Core Building. #Hydrogencars

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Anthropy UK @anthropyuk.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

🚀 Welcome back on site at the Eden Project for Day 2 of #Anthropy25. Here's to more impactful sessions, more new connections, and sowing more seeds for a brighter Britain. #Anthropy #RebootBritain #Leadership #Optimism

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Anthropy UK @anthropyuk.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

A Vision for Transport! Riversimple have arrived at #Anthropy25 with their groundbreaking hydrogen powered cars. @riversimple.bsky.social founder, Hugo Spowers MBE and director Fiona Spowers meet with John O’Brien MBE and Juergen Maier CBE FRS FREng. #Anthropy #RebootBritain #Transport #Hydrogen

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

🌳 We're at the beautiful Eden Project for the @anthropyuk.bsky.social National Gathering, which begins today. Hugo Spowers, Riversimple founder will be joining a fascinating (sold out) panel on the Wellbeing of Future Generations Act – AKA the "Act that changes everything" at 12.30pm today.

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

〓〓 We’re heading to the phenomenal Eden Project next week for the @anthropyuk.bsky.social National Gathering – a 3 day event bringing together thousands of leaders and organisations to plan for a brighter Britain. 👉 anthropy.uk/national-gat... 📆 26 – 28 March 2025

anthropy.uk

National Gathering - Anthropy

The national gathering Our national gathering brings together leaders and leading organisations across all sectors to consider Britain’s future and its place in the world. Secure your seat https://ant...

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

“We've got 1.5 billion cars on the planet. At the moment, only 2.7% of those cars are electric. So we've got to replace 97% of the world's cars with zero-emission cars...if we think we’re going to do that with batteries, we won’t have a planet left.” 👇 www.brecon-radnor.co.uk/news/riversi...

brecon-radnor.co.uk

‘We won’t have a planet left’ warning from Powys car company founder

The founder of a sustainable car company in Powys has delivered a stark warning about the motoring industry’s efforts to help meet net zero targets.

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

‘The shape of things to come: the next generation of car designers’ – Riversimple 𝗫 Coventry project is covered in detail in Autocar. Students looked beyond the masculine, aggressive styling to deliver timelessness modernity for our superlight #hydrogen supercar www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/fea...

autocar.co.uk

The shape of things to come: meet the next generation of car designers | Autocar

Coventry Uni students competed to design a radical FCEV supercar that Riversimple will put into production by 2030

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

A winner is announced for Coventry University student competition to design our hydrogen electric supercar – Haoyan Bai, 22 🎉 www.cardesignnews.com/students/win... #Hydrogen

cardesignnews.com

Winner announced in competition to design hydrogen electric supercar

Hydrogen met high design as Coventry students reimagined the supercar - lighter, cleaner and ready to disrupt

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