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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 7d

👥 🚗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 · 15d

🚗🇩🇪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 · 28d

💡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 · Sep 4

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 · Aug 19

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 · Aug 1

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 · Jul 22

🎙️ 〰️ 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...

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...

londonfuturists.buzzsprout.com

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · Jul 18

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 · Jul 1

🏭 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 · Jun 27

👀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 · Jun 19

☠️ 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 · Jun 16

Grassroots hydrogen refuelling and the Rasa – read more in @drivinghydrogen.com 🚗💧👩🏼‍🌾

drivinghydrogen.com/2025/06/13/h...

Home-made hydrogen: West Sussex farm fuels Riversimple Rasa

A West Sussex farm is making its own green hydrogen and using it to fuel a Riversimple Rasa. Engas Global’s trial could offer a scalable, localised refuelling model for rural mobility.

drivinghydrogen.com

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · Jun 11

There is no chicken and egg paradox when it comes to hydrogen mobility...

We're involved with a grassroots demonstration of green, convenient hydrogen refuelling in rural West Sussex – read more 🐣

www.linkedin.com/pulse/chicke...

There is no chicken and egg paradox – and this farm in West Sussex is showing us why…

Green, convenient, affordable hydrogen is here right now, with an enterprising ‘plug and play’ system from UK-based Engas Global The Engas Global system is currently deployed on a farm in Steyning, We...

www.linkedin.com

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · Jun 10

✈ 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 · Jun 4

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 · May 28

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 · May 23

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 · May 20

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...

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.

overshoot.footprintnetwork.org

Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · May 16

🤔Do you know where this is?

We get around over the years…

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · May 14

⚡️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 · May 8

🚗 ♾️ “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...

REPOXYBLE use case: hydrogen car - Interview with Riversimple

YouTube video by Airi - Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca Industriale

www.youtube.com

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · May 7

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

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · May 6

🔋🆚💧❓

“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...

Sustainable Futures podcast

The sustainability podcast for marketers and business leaders.

www.kantar.com

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Riversimple @riversimple.bsky.social · May 1

♾️ 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