Hydrogen phone chargers to keep Africans connected when power runs short

NEW POWER SOURCE: African smartphone users will soon have an alternative means to get round the power shortages afflicting much of the world's poorest continent — a portable charger that relies on hydrogen fuel cells. — Reuters

CAPE TOWN: African smartphone users will soon have an alternative means to get round the power shortages afflicting much of the world's poorest continent — a portable charger that relies on hydrogen fuel cells. 

British company Intelligent Energy plans to roll out 1 million of the new chargers in mid-December, mainly in Nigeria and South Africa, after successfully testing them in Nigeria over the last five months, its consumer electronics managing director, Amar Samra, said.