Hydrogen fuel-cell ebikes can be 'recharged' in seconds

While most ebikes on the road today will come with a battery pack, some are riding down the hydrogen fuel-cell cycle path. HydroRide not only has fuel-cell ebikes available, but also a compact refill station to top up H2 canisters. The global ebike market is estimated to grow in value to almost US$120 billion by 2030, and it's not surprising. Whether commuting or leisure riding, pedal-assist bikes take some of the strain out of the journey while also opening up routes for older riders. The vast majority of ebikes on the street roll with Li-ion batteries, but they can spend a good deal of time parked up charging, Swiss tech company HydroRide Europe AG is hoping to tempt e-cyclists over to the hydrogen fuel cell camp with the promise of super-fast top-ups for its range of city ebikes. And even has a compact hydrogen generator in its product portfolio, which can produce 20 g of hydrogen from 200 ml of purified water in around five-to-six hours. The company says that its refill station can even be powered by solar panels instead of the grid to produce green hydrogen, though efficiency and operational figures don't appear to have been revealed.

The warehouse I worked at used liquid hydrogen on all of the OPs, short for Order Pickers. They are wire guided lifts that you ride in, and they go in the narrow isles and go up to any level top to bottom. So you can pick items or put them away, called stowing. The wire guide is computer controlled so once you go into an isle and pick up the wire guide, sort of like an ‘electric eye’, if you will, it can’t be steered anymore by the operator and you can’t crash into a rack on either side, they can only go straight through the isle and up and down controlled by the operator. There’s only about 8 to 10 inches clearance on either side of the OP but it still can’t crash and can go pretty fast straight forward and up and down too. Quite cool really. Backing up an OP is strictly forbidden, especially when inside an isle of racks.

I also worked at another Amazon warehouse for a while not too far away in adjacent city, it had the same type of equipment. OPs and other, but that one used all electric equipment, there was no liquid hydrogen in use at that warehouse.

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