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The Fhybrid is an electric scooter that could run up to 40 mph using a Lithium battery. Its creator, Crijn Bouman, a industrial design student of Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, says it accelerates faster than regular scooters and could travel approximately 124 miles on a tank of hydrogen.

Right. But what we like more than those facts and numbers is that the scooter design gets simplified. In fact, it almost looks like a bicycle. And this design could very effectively give the impression to the end users that they’re not buying something heavy, dating for the first Industrial Revolution ― in short, polluting.

And here’s another cool trick of the design: Since two-wheeled vehicles rely primarily on front-wheel braking for efficient stops, Bouman’s scooter captures the braking energy and partially use it to recharge its battery.


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