The Riversimple Rasa wowed TNW when it unveiled a lightweight, zero-emission, no-gears, hand-built prototype hydrogen fuel cell car in February designed by one of the chief designers behind the Fiat 500. It isn’t faster than a Tesla, but it’s already got better range and lots of other rather interesting things going for it. The Welsh company has today launched an equity crowdfunding round offering up 7.5 percent of the company in order to help bring the car to life, initially asking for £1 million ($1.4 million) to “develop [the] car for customer readiness.” A further million will help them build and…

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