A passion for adventure, the spices of the unknown and an appetite for discovery; here are the ingredients of a story to tell around a fire. A recipe that I eventually know rather well. Here it goes and all those interested are invited to join it. But before beginning, let me warn you, we are talking about spicy cuisine: a beetle (the car), the South American flavours and of course a bit of experimental cooking: modifying this car to run on hydrogen.

Elbows on the table, jaws on your fists, here there are no rules: culinar specialties will unorderly pass by at high speed but in the end we’ll have tasted everything, with hopefully the icing on the cake in California… It’s time to eat!

I was a happy Marketing Director for a tour operator in the UK. I had a quite and normal life in Nottingham; sports girls and money (what appears today to me like a lot of it). And so I bought a flat and saved more money (I’m not of the kind to go in night-clubs and splash everything at once). 3 years later, my business targets were well over-achieved and bonuses were starting to accumulate in a provocative way…

I then faced a dilemma: despite my good intentions about recycling or renewable energies, my induced needs of consumer were sliding towards anti-eco goods: giant flat screens, air travels, luxurious cars…

But eventually I decided to purchase a Porsche Cayenne: 0-100 in 6s, 15l/100km, 280gCo2/km… a monster of technology and a source of pride for its owner… My goal was to have it converted to run on LPG or other fuel to make it more “eco-friendly”. Then I realised it would be difficult to experiment in the UK, within my work environment, with such a vehicle. I cancelled the purchase and then contemplated buying a Ferrari 456…

I’m suffering, I wake up by night wondering who I am becoming.

If I were so happy, why wouldn’t I just keep the Smart car, buy a house in Southen France and experiment over there? Buying a second house would mean having to keep on working to maintain my needs, which would mean not following my dreams but being a slave of my ambitions.

It’s too much. I cannot carry on. I need to breath, to travel, to follow my dreams. I quit, spend a few months researching on renewable energies and make the decsion of learning more about hydrogen and its use in normal internal combustion engines. I will do it in South America. I buy a ticket to Guadelupe and 2 months later I find myself in buenos Aires where I start working on the H2 Project.

This project is ike my redemption, my rehabilitation bak to a world I have left. I want to show there are other solutions. hydrogen is one of them. I don’t want to be a victim of big corporations anymore by not having the option to choose or decide for myself. I want to live in phase with a world that I’ll be shaping, with a place that my children will have wanted me to leave in good conditions: a world citizen who cared and ensured not to pollute this place.

I wil try not to disappoint them. Buenos Aires will be the headquarter of my offensive.