This concept vehicle marks a significant step in the company’s connected automated mobility efforts in a market that will take off in the next several years once regulation catches up to the technology.

Speaking with EVM officials, they told us that the company had secured two significant contract wins that underline its growing footprint in the UK bus and coach sector.

The project, developed with Emergency One, Cenex and the London Fire Brigade, is already being integrated into Emergency One’s EV0 electric fire appliance range, with Equipmake providing the energy management system. Still at the demonstrator stage, ZEPA V2V shows clear commercial potential to increase duty cycles of electric emergency vehicles.

At this year’s Cenex Expo, held at the Millbrook Proving Ground between 3-4 September, Bristol-based tech company Fusion Processing Ltd showcased a self-driving bus produced in partnership with Alexander Dennis for deployment on public roads in Cambridgeshire.Truck & Bus Builder spoke again with Jim Hutchinson, Fusion’s chief executive officer, to get an update on the company.

A year ago, Truck & Bus Builder visited Intelligent Energy Ltd, a Loughborough-based developer of fuel cell systems for a range of applications including aircraft, marine, and drones. At this year’s Cenex Expo, held at Millbrook Proving Ground between 3-4 September, the company showcased the fruits of a project it led to develop a system suited to the demands of heavy-duty transportation.

ULEMCo Ltd, the Liverpool-based specialist in dual-fuel vehicle conversions, presented its first hybrid project – a truck running on a combination of battery power and hydrogen – at Cenex Expo, held at the Millbrook Proving Ground between 3-4 September.

On 30 September 2024, Britain’s last remaining coal-fired power station at Ratcliffe-on-Soar was closed down. Opened in 1968, the power station had a capacity of 2,000 MW and annual carbon emissions in the millions of tonnes when it was decommissioned. Today, local authorities and consortia have new ambitions for the old plants: to repurpose the existing infrastructure for the production of green hydrogen. That was the message carried away by news reporters who attended an open day at the Loughborough University campus on 8 November. Visitors got to see some mature products of the transition taking place in the east midlands. These were the fuel-cell-powered vehicles displayed by Intelligent Energy Ltd in front of its headquarters on the edge of the campus.

Cenex is the UK’s premier event for the future of mobility, combining insights from the Low Carbon Vehicle (LCV) and Connected Automated Mobility (CAM) sectors.

The ’CoacH2’ project, worth GBP1.2m and including partners such as Translink and Queen’s University Belfast, aims to produce an electric vehicle which can meet the demands of coach operation, including heavy payloads and long-distance routes.

The proof-of-concept vehicle was assembled, deployed and tested at the MIRA Technology Park in Nuneaton, UK. The prototype is expected to be tested by operators and OEMs during the rest of 2024.

This product is a significant upgrade to its heavy-duty electric motor technology with the new HTM-3500 motor, doubling the continuous power output of its predecessor.

The BMS is designed to maximise the efficiency and performance of the batteries while being cost-effective, helping manufacturers reduce the overall costs of vehicle development​.