Public Funding for Microlise Limited

The old order changeth, yielding place to new as Lord Tennyson once put it may not hold true anymore. It has been BSA Company's mission to ensure that past glory lives on to see a new even brighter day. This is the case with Britain's oldest and perhaps most cherished brand - BSA. Not only are we resurrecting this legend, but we are also doing so in an electric avatar thus ensuring that it is poised to be the best of what tomorrow can promise. For the first time in history, a true retro motorcycle will be powered by a battery powered electric engine. This motorcycle will have the best of both the worlds -- old charm (retro) and futuristic technology (innovation and green). This promises to be a motorcycling delight for the customer and with it, BSA will aim to lead UK's e mobility growth story and help support the government's stance on climate change. Change of this magnitude needs like-minded partners and we've found them in Ashwoods Motors (Dana), Hypermotive, WMG, Vital Auto and Microlise in the design and development of this new electric motorcycle. Additionally Delta Motorsport, RedLine and Ricardo are partners (subcontractors) who've played a vital role as well. With the new range of eBSA motorcycles, BSA Co. aims to put British motorcycling back on the global automotive map again.

This project will trial 4 RCV vehicles in 2 different UK locations. All vehicles will be repowered with a full electric driveline supplied by Magtec. This drivetrain will be a lightweight version of the one used in the previous low carbon truck trial and almost half a tonne of weight will be saved which will mean that the vehicle is more efficient and will not need any special derogation to achieve full payload. Innovative business models to allow mass exploitation will be developed.

Natural gas (methane) is an excellent low carbon fuel for Internal Combustion powered transportation, particularly when used in dual fuel solutions for powering HGVs. Existing engines have been readily modified and proven at Euro 5 and 6 level as part of an Innovate UK Low Carbon Truck Trial. Unfortunately methane, as a Greenhouse gas, is 20+ times more powerful than CO2 and, not only does ‘methane slip’ from large road going engines negate much of the CO2 saving achieved, but tighter Euro 6 emissions limits mean that compliance is challenging. This is severely hampering the UK and other European Governments' stated attempts for methane to become an alternative fuel of choice for HGV fleets. G-volution’s earlier research into controlling methane slip and development of new after-treatment techniques has shown that compliance and CO2 reduction is possible with a combination of these. The consortium will develop and demonstrate 15 dual fuel (diesel/gas) road vehicles that comply fully with Euro 6 emissions regulation and show additional CO2 reduction in real life HGV operation.

This project will trial 81 dedicated gas HGVs ranging from 7.5 tonne to 44 tonne which are new to the UK market. Four vehicle manufacturers will be trialled across ten different vehicle configurations, creating a wealth of valuable data on vehicle performance, fuel efficiency, reliability and cost. When using CNG/LNG, CO2e savings of up to 8% can be achieved, and biogas produced from waste will be introduced during the project, resulting in Well-To-Wheel CO2e savings of at least 70% compared to diesel. In addition five refrigeration units will use a prototype liquid nitrogen system, further reducing CO2e and air quality emissions. The vehicles will be trialled by five high profile transport operators across a range of different duty cycles, from urban to long haul. They will be supported by technical experts who will collate comprehensive data via telematics and portable emissions monitoring equipment, which will be fully analysed in order to quantify the potential benefits of dedicated gas technology compared to diesel. Two new state-of-the-art gas stations will be delivered as part of the project, in London and Birmingham, for which no funding is being sought, thus developing infra-structure that is needed to help reduce pollution from heavy transport, whilst keeping a low budget.

Reducing air pollutant (NOx and PM) and CO2 emissions on UK roads is increasing priority for UK government, retailers, HGV hauliers and the general public. HGVs account for 17% of all UK road transport emissions; but the opportunities to significantly reduce their emissions in the near future are limited. The Reduced Emissions Logistics (Red-E-Log) project offers an immediate solution in the use of liquid biomethane (LBM) burning engines for HGVs. By making use of biomethane (methane produced by bacteria feeding off waste streams) significant amounts of fossil fuel can be eliminated from UK roads. This means the total CO2 equivalent for LBM trucks is as much as 85% less when compared to a present day HGV running on diesel, making this a solution to reducing global CO2 emissions that we can implement today. Red-E-Log is a collaboration between Kuehne & Nagel (K&N), Microlise, Cenex and Emissions Analytics (EA) to deploy 29 of the latest generation (2017 and 2018) OEM warranted 44t duel fuel and Liquid Natural Gas articulated trucks. The project will deploy three state-of-art truck technologies that are not currently (October 2016) in use in the UK with a high-profile fleet, and promote the reintroduction of LBM into the UK market.

TRIUMPH is a demonstration and study of zero emission capable trucks and refrigeration units in urban environments. Refrigerated urban delivery is a key component of the modern food distribution network and temperature controlled transport is highly polluting in urban environments. Zero emission technologies provide a solution to urban air quality and can also reduce CO2 emissions. A limited evidence base exists to support the uptake of new innovative technologies in a commercial vehicle environment. This project will investigate three solutions to zero emission delivery in urban environments. 1) Fully electric vehicles (supplied by Magtec); 2) Range extended electric vehicles (supplied by Tevva). 3) Liquid nitrogen engine refrigeration units (supplied by Dearman). A detailed study of all three options will be undertaken. The project will also: develop real time environmental sensing, provided by EarthSense, which will inform the control strategy of range extended electric vehicles to provide zero emissions operation in areas of the poorest air quality; develop fleet telemetry systems for the trial vehicles; develop fleet advice software to inform roll out in the wider fleet community; and compare the emission, cost and technical performance to Euro VI diesel vehicles.

This proposal is to develop an innovative service to enable collaboration in a shared freight transport logistics environment. We will bring location data and environmental data together with GPS, vehicle telematics, optimisation, image processing and mobile technology to create an innovative service to reduce empty freight runs, creating business opportunities for users at all levels

This proposal aims to "provide tools that enable intelligent, predictive modelling capabilities, including the integration and analysis of heterogeneous data types". Uniquely we will seek to bring together disparate data that is currently unconnected to create a platform allowing not only high value benefits to be derived by isolated data community members but also collectively by the disparate data owner communities as a whole. The approaches planned for Data Exploration during this project, will culminate in novel approaches and techniques, and tools with applications across other challenged sectors that suffer "Data Silo" blackholes, across financial, engineering, biotech/informatics, and other complex disparate data environments.

Led by Brit European with the support of CNG Services and Microlise, the environmental efficiency project puts in place a core regional fleet of heavy trucks to primarily distribute finished JCB construction and farm equipment. These Mercedes Actros vehicles operate Hardstaffs 'dual fuel' technology to reduce CO2 emissions by 15-18% dependent on vehicle operating cycles. The portable CNG (compressed natural gas) fuelling facility can fuel up to 4000Kgs of gas per day and can be quickly and easily moved to another location to support further fleet developments. In order to monitor substitution rates accurately between diesel and gas and the resultant CO2 emissions, Microlise will be further developing their on board telematics systems and reporting suite to support the project. The first vehicles are targetted to be operational from quarter 1 2013.