Dutch company develops electric bicycle that promises to revolutionize the market. The e-bike has the capacity to travel 300 km using just 2 L of water.
The electric bicycle market continues to grow and, every day, vehicles with unique characteristics appear on the market. This time, the market turns its eyes to the WASH, a hydrogen-powered electric bicycle developed by a renowned design and engineering studio in the Netherlands. The e-bike has the capacity to travel 300 km with just 2 liters of water.
Discover the water-powered electric bicycle
Dutch design office Studio Mom has developed the LAVO e-bike, a compact modular concept for hydrogen powered transport. Commissioned by Providence Asset Group and in partnership with the University of New South Wales Sydney, Hyperkid and Elian Steering, the bike's design incorporates Australian-developed hydrogen storage technology, the LAVO System.
Studio Mom has been working on electric bikes and other sustainable forms of transportation for several brands, including Cortina and Gazelle. The company has now developed the LAVO e-bike for Providence Asset Group, an investment firm, managing and financing diverse generation assets, clean energy storage and technology.
According to Studio Mom, hydrogen technology is the promise of emission-free energy and makes it possible to transport three times more energy per unit of weight compared to a state-of-the-art battery. Greater autonomy, speed or load is therefore easy to achieve. Small-scale transport in combination with hydrogen is finally solving the short radius problem. As a result, the electric cargo bike may increasingly come as an alternative to cars for transporting loads over longer distances.
Electric bicycle has the first and only energy storage system
The LAVO bike was developed as a toolbox for emission-free mobility. It is adaptable to different applications for small business use, from city biking to cargo biking.
The exclusive Elian front steering hub guarantees great performance, rigidity and driving comfort. It is worth highlighting that the electric bicycle has the first and only energy storage of ready-to-use hydrogen in the world, developed for daily use in companies and homes, called the LAVO System.
Developed by leading scientists from University of New South Wales, Lavo's technology aims to provide a more complete, versatile and sustainable solution than other energy storage solutions on the current market.
Other water-powered vehicle initiatives
In addition to this e-bike that runs 300 km with just two liters of water, NanoFlowcell reached a new milestone with its technology, completing 350 thousand km traveled with the Quantino 48 Volt car, which is powered by salt water.
In this way, inventor Nunzio La Vecchia now hopes that his technology, which essentially consists of using a type of salt water to accumulate electrical energy, will begin to be noticed by the automotive industry as a more viable, cheaper and efficient way than others, such as lithium-ion batteries or hydrogen fuel, which also do not generate any type of pollutant or noise emissions.
The car powered by salt water serves as a technological demonstration of how the technology can be adapted to a low-cost vehicle aimed at urban areas, which was chosen to carry out several tests. Since 2019, the prototype of the water-powered car developed in Switzerland has already exceeded 250 thousand km driven on the open road, where around 100 thousand of these were carried out for laboratory tests.
