Intelligent Energy shows the ENV fuel-cell motorcycle prototype

Intelligent Energy is an energy solutions company, developing new energy technologies and creating and implementing power delivery services for its business partners, based on its PEM fuel cell technology.

The company has a proprietary suite of new energy technologies, focused on commercialising energy services in hydrogen generation, fuel storage and power generation using PEM fuel cells.

Based in London and Loughborough (with subsidiaries in America and South Africa), the company is led by a world-class team, including: Sir John Jennings (Non-Exec Chairman), a former Chairman of Shell Transport and Trading ; Dr Harry Bradbury (CEO), a former global Energy Leader with Deloitte and Touche Solutions ; and Dr Paul Adcock (Head of Research and Development), who is the former Director of the Fuel Cell Group at Loughborough University.

Intelligent Energy is in fact made up from the entire team of experts of Loughborough University who specialised in fuel cell technology, giving it one of the largest and most experienced teams in the field throughout Europe, with collective intellectual property rights and know-how built up over a 12- year period.

The company's many successes to date include a light aircraft, developed in partnership with Boeing, which is powered by a fuel cell. Boeing said that it had chosen the British fuel cell system because its performance, compared with weight and size, was better than that of its rivals. Intelligent Energy is now working on fuel cells which would provide ancillary power for commercial airliners.

The company's fuel cells are undergoing trials at more than a dozen sites, including schools and hospitals in South Africa, which plans to bring electricity to more than 4m homes that are currently without power.

ENV technical specification

Motor: 6kW, 48 VDC Brush motor

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