First hydrogen bikes land in Saint Lo

Hydrogen bikes from Pragma Industries, originally designed for certain employees, will be offered to tourists from the spring of 2018.

On Monday, December 11, SME Pragma Industries launched its first hydrogen electric bicycles in Saint-Lo.

« Today we will deliver twenty to the English Channel, ten to Saint-Lô and ten to Cherbourg. Forty more will be delivered in the coming days to the urban community of the Basque Country, the cities of Chambéry and Ariège. "Said Christoph Brunio, Sales Manager of Pragma Industries, announcing the prospects" several hundred bicycles »For 2018 in France and for export. ” We are bombarded with requests "- he stressed.

In Saint-Lo, hydrogen bicycles will initially be used by hospital staff and Lecapitaine, a company with 800 employees. Then they will be offered to tourists from April to October. This first pilot deployment is funded by ADEME and local authorities and has a total cost of over € 700.000.  

Rechargeable in minutes thanks to small, replaceable tanks, hydrogen bikes from Pragma Industries require a dedicated filling station. Compact, it produces hydrogen locally by electrolysis of water. A device that could be of interest to many communities, but subject to lower prices. Pragma Industries' hydrogen bicycles are currently on sale for 7500 2020 euros. The price the company intends to cut in half by the year XNUMX.