UK Pavilion at Cenex Expo to feature Cutting-edge Vehicle Innovations
In 2023 the Advanced Propulsion Centre UK (APC) announced an £18.7 million investment in 10 fast-start projects aimed at rapidly developing automotive products with a clear route to market.
With £9 million in government support delivered through the APC and matched by industry funding, successful applicants have been working on their projects to demonstrate a product, system or vehicle within 12 months.
As the project timeline comes to a close, the 10 projects will be featured on the Advanced Route to Market Demonstrator (ARMD) stand adjacent to the UK Government Pavilion at Cenex Expo 2024.
A wide range of UK-based SMEs and multinationals at the cutting edge of vehicle innovation benefitted from the second round of the Advanced Route to Market Demonstrator competition (ARMD2), including: the development of electric first responder motorcycles for the emergency services, electric delivery vans, fuel-cell technology, electric drives, and motors, as well as tractors and composite materials.
CEO Ian Constance, said: “The Advanced Route to Market Demonstrator competition is a distinct ambitious offering from the APC as it sees the development of new, tangible products in a short period of time. The successful applicants all had fantastic proposals. We are excited to see the fruits of this £18.7 million investment from both industry and government. Given the success of the previous round, the projects displayed at Cenex Expo will be ones to keep an eye on.”
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In detail, the projects who will be showcasing their innovative technologies are:
Involution Technologies
Demonstrating an innovative electric drive unit (EDU) suitable to drive any large on/off-highway commercial, construction or agricultural vehicle.
Prodrive Engineering
Design and build of a demonstrator of EVOLV light category EV zero-emission ‘last mile’ delivery vehicle.
White Motorcycle Concepts
Electric first responder motorcycle (WMC300E+) evolving operational emergency services with hybrid motorcycle, aiming to deliver a fully operational, full-scale, rapid-charge first responder electric demonstrator motorcycle.
JLR
SOCA – Sustainably Optimised Composite Automotive is aiming to decarbonise the manufacturing of composite components for automotive applications through the combination of innovative technology and material.
Parker Hannifin
Novel fuel-cell humidification system for zero-emission heavy duty vehicle applications. Utilising proprietary hollowfibre membrane technology to develop a novel humidifier, maximising fuel cell performance and operational life.
Viritech
Project ICEBreaker is developing and testing a novel fuel cell powertrain for Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGV) offering higher efficiency and lighter weight.
Wrightbus
CoacH2 – Next-generation hydrogen fuel-cell coach powertrain demonstrator to accelerate the development of zero-emission hydrogen fuel-cell electric coaches, with a full on-vehicle technology demonstrator.
Maeving
Development of a new powertrain to drive two new lightweight removable battery electric motorcycles.
Protean Electric
Development of the Olympus lightweight and novel in-wheel motors (IWM) to accelerate the adoption of IWM by OEMs, through improving the state-of-the-art IWM technologies and meeting the advanced requirements of leading OEMs.
Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains
HPP solid state battery concept is an innovative solid-state battery solution capable of meeting the unique requirements of solid-state cells.