Autonomous Vehicle News
The “Hydrogen Innovation – Future Infrastructure & Vessel Evaluation and Demonstration (HI-FIVED)” consortium will receive over £3.8 million of funding to build and showcase its innovative autonomous vessel and bunkering infrastructure technologies for liquid hydrogen. The £5.4 million project is expected to be delivered in autumn 2024. In 2022, ACUA Ocean launched what claimed to be the world’s first hydrogen-powered drone surface vessel (H-USV), which won the CMDC2 competition. The project, part of the UK Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition, is being partly funded by grants from the Department for Transport and is being delivered by Innovate UK. The CMDC3 is part of the UK Shipping Office for Reducing Emissions’ (UK SHORE) flagship multi-year CMDC program.