Scottish Enterprise supports HVS to Develop a Rigid Hydrogen-Powered Truck
Hydrogen Vehicle Systems Limited
Press Release
December 2021
Glasgow
Scotland based Hydrogen Vehicle Systems (HVS) has received the support of almost £50,000 from Scottish Enterprise and Transport Scotland.
This support was part of “The Can Do Zero Emissions Heavy-Duty Vehicles (HDV) challenge” which was launched in July by Transport Scotland and Scottish Enterprise to help businesses develop innovative solutions to decarbonise transport and aid Scotland’s green recovery.
Through this support, HVS aims to undertake a feasibility and development study into its rigid hydrogen- powered truck. There are currently 486,000 HGVs on British roads and rigid trucks make up around half of these, all of which will need to be replaced over the coming years as petrol and diesel bans start to come into force.
HVS is working tirelessly to produce zero-emission hydrogen-electric HGVs that will replace the heavily polluting diesel trucks that currently contribute 20% of transport emissions, about 23 million tonnes of CO2, despite making up only 2% of vehicles.
This study will help us reach a bigger market with our products, reducing emissions further. We are also working to improve driver well-being, overall efficiency and make UK roads safer through innovations on our trucks.
“This HVS study aims to facilitate the decarbonising of the road haulage sector with the introduction of hydrogen fuel cell trucks to uphold the environmental benefits observed from the COVID-19 lockdown and continue the country's drive towards net-zero. his HVS rigid hydrogen-powered truck will have performance parity with diesel regarding heavy payload, long-range and rapid refuelling.”
Jawad Khursheed
Chief Executive Officer
“"The zero-emission heavy-duty vehicles projects will provide support for businesses to innovate in this transport space whilst also helping meet net-zero targets. HVS is one of the businesses that received support, and we are excited to see its plans to use hydrogen-electric technology in a range of vans and trucks to decarbonise the road haulage sector in Scotland and worldwide.”
Andy McDonald
Head of Low Carbon Transition for Scottish Enterprise
The multi-award-winning HVS brings together the latest technology and their innovative designs to produce zero-emission commercial vehicles. HVS’ vehicles will help the wider transport industry to meet ambitious emission reduction targets of -15% by 2025, -30% by 2030 and fully zero-emission fleets by 2040.
“Our market analysis indicates that the commercial vehicle segments such as haulage are where we will see autonomous vehicle technology first used in large scale deployments. Hub2Hub is a perfect showcase of what the advanced version of our CAVstar Automated Drive System can achieve. Combining SAE Level 4 autonomous driving with tele-operation to deliver safer and more efficient vehicle operations.”
Jim Hutchinson
CEO, Fusion Processing
About HV Systems
HV Systems design and develop zero-emission, long-range, hydrogen-powered commercial vehicles. With its Head Office based in Glasgow Scotland, HVS have a strategically positioned team across the country, including Coventry and other centres close to the wider automotive industry.
CEO of HVS, Jawad Khursheed took over leadership of HVS in early 2020. He has guided the company through the COVID-19 Pandemic and rebooted the vehicle development program. Since 2020 HVS has been granted a patent (a heat recapture system to increase drivetrain efficiency), successfully completed an Innovate UK funded feasibility study (SBRI Phase 1), built a comprehensive TCO model and projected emissions savings for vehicles, and brought van and truck development programmes to prototyping ready stage having built relationships with suppliers, industry partners and end- user/customers.
HVS believes in the moral and also commercial imperative to reduce carbon emissions to prevent the increasingly extreme impacts of climate change from escalating in the future. Battery power is far less effective in larger vehicles where maximising payload capacity is vital and logistics companies cannot afford the long downtime required to recharge. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are a logical solution with quick refuelling and performance parity with current diesel trucks possible.
Awards
The Scottish SME Business Awards winners 2019
The Scottish Green Apple Awards 2019
Business Green Leaders Awards Finalists 2019
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