{"id":60093194,"date":"2025-08-07T18:39:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T17:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/?post_type=news_digest&#038;p=60093194"},"modified":"2025-08-07T18:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T17:39:11","slug":"china-expands-hydrogen-bike-share-network","status":"publish","type":"news_digest","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/digest\/china-expands-hydrogen-bike-share-network\/","title":{"rendered":"China expands hydrogen bike-share network"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Chinese company has recently added 3,000 hydrogen-powered bicycles to its bike-share scheme in Chengdu\u2019s Xindu district. This follows a smaller pilot scheme of 500 bikes it introduced last year and makes Xindu the first location in China to launch large-scale implementation of hydrogen-powered transport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of 21 July, over 200,000 users had registered for an account on the Sichuan Qinglv Technology mobile app, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/sichuan.scol.com.cn\/tfrm\/202507\/83092830.html\">Sichuan Daily<\/a>. More than 1.06 million rides were logged, with a total of over 2.5 million kilometres travelled, the outlet reported. Over the next few months, Qinglv plans to roll out a total of 15,000 such bikes in the district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chengdu is among a growing number of cities trialling hydrogen-powered bike-shares as part of broader efforts to decarbonise urban transport in China. Similar initiatives have already been <a href=\"https:\/\/mp.weixin.qq.com\/s\/WdO-rcOOo6dAjibu41Z3NQ\">launched<\/a> in Chengdu, Changzhou, Yancheng and Huangshi.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Such bikes are powered by hydrogen storage reservoirs that feed into fuel cells which convert hydrogen into electricity. The Qinglv bike\u2019s hydrogen fuel cell <a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.scdaily.cn\/shtml\/scrb\/20240828\/315347.shtml\">system<\/a> has been installed beneath its seat and stores around 100 grams of hydrogen \u2013 enough to power the bike at speeds of up to 25 km\/h for four hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cost still remains a barrier to wider adoption. Most hydrogen bikes on the market are priced at around CNY 10,000 (USD 1,375) \u2013 2-3 times that of lithium-ion battery-powered bikes, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/paper.people.com.cn\/zgnyb\/html\/2023-08\/21\/content_26013658.htm\">People\u2019s Daily<\/a>. However, this is offset by the slower depreciation of solid-state hydrogen storage, which can go through thousands of cycles, compared to just hundreds for lithium-ion batteries.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huang Yuyu, vice president of a hydrogen-focused investment firm, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jfdaily.com\/staticsg\/res\/html\/web\/newsDetail.html?id=948619\">said<\/a> that hydrogen-bike technology has advanced rapidly over the past two years, significantly reducing supply chain costs. He expects the price of a hydrogen bike to fall to around CNY 4,000 (USD 550) within the next two years, which would make them more competitive against lithium-ion battery-powered counterparts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another challenge is regulation. Unlike lithium-ion, \u201ccurrently, there are neither product standards nor operational specifications for hydrogen-powered bicycles\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.shobserver.com\/wx\/detail.do?id=631230\">said<\/a> Zhang Xiang, dean of the New Energy Vehicle Technology Research Institute at Jiangxi New Energy Science and Technology Vocational College. He noted that just a few institutions are researching and discussing these matters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Read Dialogue Earth\u2019s previous <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/energy\/by-product-hydrogen-a-bridge-to-a-green-hydrogen-economy\/\"><em>analysis<\/em><\/a><em> on why cheap hydrogen produced from industrial by-products might contain a risk of locking in carbon emissions<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A company has added 3,000 hydrogen-powered bicycles to its bike-share scheme in Chengdu, making it the first city in China with large-scale 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