🚗🇩🇪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 👇

💡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

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

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

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.

🎙️ 〰️ 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...

Hydrogen Bay Swansea – held at the birthplace of the fuel cell – never disappoints. Thanks to all involved and looking forward to next year… #Hydrogen

🏭 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.

👀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

☠️ 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 🌤️

Grassroots hydrogen refuelling and the Rasa – read more in @drivinghydrogen.com 🚗💧👩🏼‍🌾 drivinghydrogen.com/2025/06/13/h...

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...

✈ 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.

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.

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.

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. 🪻

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...

🤔Do you know where this is? We get around over the years…

⚡️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.

🚗 ♾️ “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...

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

🔋🆚💧❓ “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...

♾️ 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

👨🏻‍🔧Motorsports engineers were a core part of our Alpha vehicle engineering team. Like F1 cars, our vehicles are built with strong, lightweight composite materials – not steel. 🪶The Rasa’s 72kg carbon fibre monocoque chassis = structural integrity, lightness + strength, + doesn’t corrode.

It’s Earth Day today 🌍🌎🌏 This year’s @earthdayorg.bsky.social #OurPlanetOurPower reminds us that we can 𝓪𝓵𝓵 be powerful agents of change. Our mission is to deliver personal mobility with zero environmental impact. This is ambitious, but every decision we take is towards this goal.

Happy Easter | Pasg Hapus to all of our team, partners, investors, community members and beta-customers 🐥🌼

♾️ We’re a circular business, and will only offer our cars via a subscription service. Mobility as a Service (#Maas) – in our case it means we design 𝘰𝘶𝘵 inbuilt obsolescence and design 𝘪𝘯 longevity, efficiency and quality without endlessly requiring quantities of new critical materials.

“𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆” 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆, 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘂𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 + 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘆. “It’s only fair if you want to buy a massive SUV that you should expect to pay more for the space it takes up.” 👇 www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/campaig...

🌍 We live on a planet with finite resources, yet we act like we don’t know this. 🏭 The car industry: inbuilt obsolescence, depreciation + overcomplexity – durability, longevity + resource preservation are rare. ♾️ We’ve designed our cars to last, with resource preservation front of mind.

🌳 Day 2: @anthropyuk.bsky.social National Gathering – we’ve been productive with discussions, test drives, reconnecting with peers + making new friends. Tomorrow: Hugo on ‘Future of Automotive: Alternative Fuels, Autonomy, + Sustainability.’ 12.30pm | Infinity Blue | Core Building. #Hydrogencars

🚀 Welcome back on site at the Eden Project for Day 2 of #Anthropy25. Here's to more impactful sessions, more new connections, and sowing more seeds for a brighter Britain. #Anthropy #RebootBritain #Leadership #Optimism

A Vision for Transport! Riversimple have arrived at #Anthropy25 with their groundbreaking hydrogen powered cars. @riversimple.bsky.social founder, Hugo Spowers MBE and director Fiona Spowers meet with John O’Brien MBE and Juergen Maier CBE FRS FREng. #Anthropy #RebootBritain #Transport #Hydrogen

🌳 We're at the beautiful Eden Project for the @anthropyuk.bsky.social National Gathering, which begins today. Hugo Spowers, Riversimple founder will be joining a fascinating (sold out) panel on the Wellbeing of Future Generations Act – AKA the "Act that changes everything" at 12.30pm today.

〓〓 We’re heading to the phenomenal Eden Project next week for the @anthropyuk.bsky.social National Gathering – a 3 day event bringing together thousands of leaders and organisations to plan for a brighter Britain. 👉 anthropy.uk/national-gat... 📆 26 – 28 March 2025

“We've got 1.5 billion cars on the planet. At the moment, only 2.7% of those cars are electric. So we've got to replace 97% of the world's cars with zero-emission cars...if we think we’re going to do that with batteries, we won’t have a planet left.” 👇 www.brecon-radnor.co.uk/news/riversi...

‘The shape of things to come: the next generation of car designers’ – Riversimple 𝗫 Coventry project is covered in detail in Autocar. Students looked beyond the masculine, aggressive styling to deliver timelessness modernity for our superlight #hydrogen supercar www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/fea...

A winner is announced for Coventry University student competition to design our hydrogen electric supercar – Haoyan Bai, 22 🎉 www.cardesignnews.com/students/win... #Hydrogen

♾️ Our vehicles reflect our relentless pursuit of sustainable materials, even down to the details in the interior: 🌾 Flax carbon composite body panels 🧴Luxe upholstery created with recycled PET bottles 👩🏼‍🚒 Door handles handmade by Elvis & Kresse with recycled firehose. #ThinkCircular

🤔 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙛 𝙬𝙚 𝙩𝙖𝙭𝙚𝙙 𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙨 𝙗𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙬𝙚𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩, 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨? www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-news/mot...

We use advanced, lightweight, high performance non-toxic materials in our vehicles, and work with true pioneers – like composites consortium, REPOXYBLE. REPOXYBLE create new composites that minimise the resource demands and energy use of manufacturing processes, including bio-based composites.

Lightness is key for us. The Rasa is built with strong, lightweight composite materials rather than steel – and is one of the lightest cars on the road, weighing around just 655kg.

Our pioneering Future Guardian governance structure is featured in the new @ukgbc.bsky.social report, Trends in Sustainable Solutions in the Built Environment 2024. Read the report here ➡️ ukgbc.org/trends-in-so... #Governance

🌱 The future is a shared responsibility. This is the founding principle of Anthropy – who are holding a 3 day event at the Eden Project in Cornwall this March. We’ll be joining with our hydrogen Rasas – find out more 👉anthropy.uk #Anthropy25

“𝗪𝗲'𝘃𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝟵𝟳% 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱'𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘇𝗲𝗿𝗼-𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗵𝗼𝘄. 𝗜𝗳 𝘄𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝘄𝗲'𝗿𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗯𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀, 𝘄𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝗳𝘁.” 💧Fuelling the Future, a film by insurers Adrian Flux #hydrogen www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhG2...

𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝘆𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗲𝗻 𝗯𝗲 𝗮 𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲-𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗿𝗮? ☀️ 🫙 “𝗜𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝘂𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲, 𝗯𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱.” 👇 www.re-tv.org/articles/hyd... #GreenHydrogen

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗮𝘀𝗮 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗰𝗮𝗿 – 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗵𝘆𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗲𝗻. → Hydrogen passes through a fuel cell, where it combines with oxygen to produce ⚡ → This ⚡️ flows to small, lightweight electric motors in each wheel → The Rasa also uses supercapacitors for acceleration – storing recovered energy.

ℝ𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕤𝕚𝕞𝕡𝕝𝕖…𝕨𝕣𝕒𝕡𝕡𝕖𝕕 𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟜 🎁 We took stock of our big moments over the last year, and there are some themes…our new hydrogen supercar concept was a big draw, along with the fact that we’re an antidote to excess and weight in car design. #Hydrogencars

“The great advantage we have at Riversimple is a clean sheet of paper…we have no legacy constraints – we’ve designed the entire company around the characteristics of #hydrogen and the needs of the 21st century.” Michelin and Petrol Ped film 👇https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePvOITdcvik

“We need an urgent review of the automotive market and the regulation intended to drive it… …When the world changes, so must we.” Is this an existential crisis for European #autoindustry? www.smmt.co.uk/2024/11/alar...

✅ What we do: ‘Brilliant’ (Topgear) little hydrogen cars designed by F1-engineers, big plans to scale up, a radically different business model, and deep respect for our community and the environment. ❌ What we don’t do: SUVs, inbuilt obsolescence, meme-warfare, big fat batteries.