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# motorcycle to exhaust competition
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/motorcycle-to-exhaust-competition/
- Published: 2005-06-15T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T07:15:19.000Z
- Author: Ryan Hyatt
- Tags: Business, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*Motorcycle emits water vapor*

CITYWIDE — Enthusiasts say a motorcycle soon to hit Santa Monica streets will not only draw eyes with its sleek features, but also deliver an amazing eco-friendly performance that might change the face of local transportation forever.

Intelligent-Energy, a British energy solutions company that is relocating to Santa Monica this summer, unveiled the world’s first consumer “fuel cell” motorcycle on Tuesday at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood.

Called an “Emissions Neutral Vehicle,” the eight-horsepower motorcycle runs on a six-kilowatt electric motor and a detachable fuel cell stack the size of a briefcase that can be refueled in less than five minutes. The ENV has a top speed of 50 miles per hour and can be driven for 100 miles, or approximately four hours, without needing to be re-charged.

Intelligent Energy expects to produce 10,000 units of the ENV in its first production run, to be on the market by 2006.

The cost for one motorbike is expected to be $6,000.

Harry Bradbury, chief executive officer for Intelligent Energy, said it’s the ENV’s “radically compact” fuel cell that will drive the success of the company. He said the unique battery used by the bike will be compatible with other consumer products Intelligent Energy intends to help develop, which will have far-reaching applications for users.

“In the not-too-distant future, people will be able to use a bike like ENV to leave work in the city, drive to the countryside, plug the fuel cell into a motorboat, then plug it in again to power a small log cabin.”

Intelligent Energy was founded in 2001 and employs 80 people between its offices in South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States — currently in Long Beach, Calif., and Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The company is looking to establish itself by the end of summer along the Wilshire commercial corridor.

Bradbury said part of the reason his company will be focusing on Santa Monica and the rest of the Southern California market is because of the area’s reputation as the “heartland of new energy technology.”

“We have been untainted by commercialization for so many years,” Bradbury said. “Now that we have the backing we need, we have the chance to change people’s lives while running a substantial business.”

He said the technology his company supports has been in existence for the last 15 years, but he and his associates have been “waiting for everyone else to catch up” before taking Intelligent Energy into the alternative energy and consumer vehicle market.

“We have a whole vehicle on the market which we built ourselves and didn’t require anyone else’s participation,” Bradbury said. “It is a product we feel will be attractive to many in Santa Monica and their urban lifestyle.”

> “It is a product we feel will be attractive to many in Santa Monica and their urban lifestyle.” — HARRY BRADBURY CEO, Intelligent Energy

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 15, 2005.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/061505.pdf?ref=smdp.com)