Welcome to the Summer edition of Valeswood News. Our hydrogen bikes have been receiving a lot of favourable attention at shows and in the media, including the Gadget Show.

We have recently been to Christ's College, Cambridge as part of our work with the Government's Fuel Cell Knowledge Transfer Network. We are developing an exciting hydrogen bike project with them in London which will go public later this year.

Mike Hugh, Jon Butler and John Turner
at Christ's College

We have developed our first hydrogen boat and are very grateful to Barnt Green Waters Limited for allowing us to successfully trial it on Upper Bittell Reservoir.

We used a Minn Kota 12 volt electric motor supplied by Johnson Outdoors. We connected this to a PEM hydrogen fuel cell and a nickel hydride cylinder containing 1200 litres of hydrogen gas.

Dr Alex Bevan of our partners Proto-Systems Limited enjoyed putting the boat through its paces.

Alex Bevan takes the helm

We will be launching our new hydrogen electric scooter this summer.

This great new vehicle has a certificate for use on the UK roads. It demonstrates that affordable, silent and pollution free hydrogen vehicles are beginning to arrive.

It has a top speed of 40 mph and a range of 100 miles on a tank of hydrogen. It can be ridden by anyone who is licensed to ride an ordinary motor scooter.

Tomas Urban test rides our scooter