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(1,245 posts) Mon Aug 11, 2025, 10:39 PM Aug 11

China expands hydrogen bike-share network

China expands hydrogen bike-share network

Niu Yuhan | August 7, 2025

A Chinese company has recently added 3,000 hydrogen-powered bicycles to its bike-share scheme in Chengdu’s 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.

As of 21 July, over 200,000 users had registered for an account on the Sichuan Qinglv Technology mobile app, according to the Sichuan Daily. 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.

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 launched in Chengdu, Changzhou, Yancheng and Huangshi.

Such bikes are powered by hydrogen storage reservoirs that feed into fuel cells which convert hydrogen into electricity. The Qinglv bike’s hydrogen fuel cell system has been installed beneath its seat and stores around 100 grams of hydrogen – enough to power the bike at speeds of up to 25 km/h for four hours...more
https://dialogue.earth/en/digest/china-expands-hydrogen-bike-share-network/

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My son spent last summer in China. He rented a bicycle, the cleanest transport in the world. It wasn't made filthy... NNadir Aug 12 #1

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1. My son spent last summer in China. He rented a bicycle, the cleanest transport in the world. It wasn't made filthy...

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Tue Aug 12, 2025, 06:25 AM

Aug 12

...by stupidly adding hydrogen crap to it, since in China, hydrogen is made overwhelmingly by reforming dangerous fossil fuels.

Subsidizing Grid-Based Electrolytic Hydrogen Will Increase Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Coal Dominated Power Systems Liqun Peng, Yang Guo, Shangwei Liu, Gang He, and Denise L. Mauzerall Environmental Science & Technology 2024 58 (12), 5187-5195

The text is clear enough.

From the introductory text:

... Currently, nearly all hydrogen in China is either produced directly from fossil fuels (55% from coal gasification and 14% from steam methane reforming (SMR)) or as a byproduct of petroleum refining (28%), with only 1% coming from water electrolysis. (2) Producing 1 kg of coal- or SMR-based hydrogen emits roughly 19 and 10 kg of CO2, respectively. (3) In 2020, hydrogen production from fossil fuels in China emitted approximately 322Tg of CO2, equivalent to 25% of total CO2 emissions from industrial processes, a number expected to rise with increasing hydrogen demand. (4) Industrial processes include production of nonmetallic mineral products, chemical, and metal products, as well as production and consumption of halocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride. (4)

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The bold, italics and underlining is mine.

EST: Chinese Hydrogen Production Is Making Climate Change Worse.

The fossil fuel industry loves to advertise hydrogen in order to greenwash itself. We see their ads here all the time. Nevertheless, there is probably no one here who has ever seen a hydrogen bicycle, a hydrogen motor cycle, a hydrogen car, or a hydrogen bus, a hydrogen helicopter and all the other bullshit in these ads.

I haven't, despite being an old man who's listened to hydrogen bullshit for the last 50 years. My own experience with hydrogen is limited using it in organic synthesis. I'd fill the tank every six months. The hydrogen in the tank was clearly made from the reformation of the dangerous fossil fuel natural gas.

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