Riversimple already disclosed it would not sell a single car. It would be just another automaker following a business model that gives evident signs of exhaustion if it did that. As much as the combustion engine was doomed for relying on a finite raw material like oil, manufacturing as we know it also depends on multiple limited resources. Riversimple wants to invert that logic and reward performance, not sales. What we did not know is that it plans to do that even with its suppliers.
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Carbon neutral: You ll fund the green economy - but what is it?
By Sarah Dickins
image captionGreen jobs are about more than solar panels and windfarms
Billions of pounds of your money will seemingly be spent on the green economy whoever wins May s Welsh Parliament elections. But what does that mean?
Is this just wind farms and solar panels, more recycling and people switching to electric cars?
Well, it s a bit more than that.
One party pledges to spend £6bn on making Wales greener while another has promised £1bn a year. Other parties say they ll build low-carbon homes and will invest in the green economy.
“We support firms that produce boundary-breaking products in terms of design, manufacturing and performance,” added Brian Holliday, MD Siemens Digital Industries GB & Ireland.
Riversimple is currently building a low volume production run of Rasas for a trial with the general public based in Abergavenny in Monmouthshire. The trial is being supported by OZEV (Office for Zero Emission Vehicles) as part of the HTP (Hydrogen for Transport) programme.
“We are really pushing the boundaries of sustainable possibilities, because as a start-up we are able to do so whereas mature companies face exit barriers that make some of these initiatives impractical,” said Spowers. “We understand and respect this but Siemens are genuinely interested in exploring this brave new world and I think the flow of learning in this area will be two way; they can definitely help us with their various tools but they can also learn from us as we are a relatively small scale lab.”