Hydrogen Vehicle Systems (HVS), a UK-based hydrogen-powered commercial vehicle innovator, has announced that the consortium it leads, Hub2Hub, has been awarded £6.6 million to develop and deliver an autonomous zero-emission HGV for the UK market.
Click the thumbs up >Fusion Processing has built a Fiat Ducato van with Level 4 autonomous driving capability in order to test the technology for use on buses.
The vehicle will be used for on-road development work as part of the CAVForth autonomous bus project.
Jim Fleming, marketing director at Fusion, said: “We needed a vehicle on which to install the automated driving system developed for CAVForth, and although we have a full-size bus in our Bristol facility, the Ducato crew van serves as a more convenient test platform to take on the road and measure the system performance.
Project CAVForth is run by a consortium of mobility companies, headed up by Fusion Processing. It includes Stagecoach, Alexander Dennis and Transport Scotland.