Mark Jannot, Editor of Popular Science magazine, commented: ‘Best of What’s New is the ultimate Popular Science accolade, representing a year’s worth of work evaluating thousands of products. These awards honour innovations that not only influence the way we live today, but that change the way we think about the future.’

Mark Lawson-Statham, Chief Operating Officer of Intelligent Energy, commented: ‘This award is deeply gratifying to the whole team at Intelligent Energy and shows that the world recognises and is ready for the great benefits of clean power that fuel cell technologies can bring to our economies and environment.’

The ENV bike, the result of an all-British creative collaboration between Intelligent Energy, who brought their vision and world-beating technology to the project, leading industrial designers Seymourpowell and leading British suppliers, has become a worldwide phenomenon since the prototypes were first launched in March 2005 at London’s Design Museum. Media coverage has included over 100 individual televisual transmissions and print coverage has included over 300 newspapers and magazines in 35 different countries. The reaction of the general public to the bike, whose fuel cell technology allows riders to drive at 50mph for up to four hours before needing to refuel, without any noise or emissions pollution whatsoever, has also been incredibly positive, from British trailbikers and American environmentalists to urban commuters everywhere from Sydney to Rio de Janeiro.

The ENV bike was engineered and purpose-built around Intelligent Energy’s world-beating CORE fuel cell, demonstrating the real, everyday applicability of fuel cell technology. The CORE, which is completely detachable from the bike, is a radically compact and efficient fuel cell, capable of powering anything from a motorboat to a small domestic property. 

About Intelligent Energy:

Intelligent Energy is a fuel cell development company, creating and implementing new energy technologies and power delivery services for its business partners. The company is above all an intellectual property and know-how led business, focused on commercialising its fuel cell and hydrogen generation technologies. Its key technology is the proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell, which uses hydrogen to produce cleaner electricity. Intelligent Energy’s PEM fuel cells are world beaters, both in terms of volumetric power density and low parasitic losses. They also use metal rather than the more common graphite plates, making them smaller, more robust and, crucially, easier to manufacture.

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