Alexander Dennis Limited

IONETIC offers a scalable solution in response to the demands of the UK niche and low-volume vehicle industry, for OEMs that manufacture <20,000 vehicles p.a. As a dynamic UK start-up specialising in EV battery-pack technology, IONETIC is leveraging its state-of-the-art "Arc" design and production platform to establish the manufacture of highly optimised ...

This project follows on from the CAVForth project which saw Stagecoach operate a fleet of five 37 seat Alexander Dennis buses that have been fitted with the CAVStar(r) automated drive system developed by Fusion Processing Ltd. This new project will see the route extend to Dunfermline bus station, and will also include use of a new model Alexander Dennis e...

Titan, Alexander Dennis and TRL will work together to develop and demonstrate an electric steering system for bus and other heavy commercial vehicle applications. An approach will be developed that provides a flexible and cost effective approach to enabling innovative low volume manufacturers to bring autonomous steering features to market quickly and saf...

The Greater Cambridge region has achieved growth and success on an international scale, but high commuter demand has led to issues of congestion and poor air quality. The Cambridge Autonomous Vehicle strategy details opportunities to use AVs to tackle these problems. Project Connector will undertake an at-scale trial of on-demand self-driving vehicles wit...

Transport is vital to our economy and way of life. For decades, internal combustion engine vehicles have delivered great economic and social success, but more lately require legislative changes to improve air quality for health. Driven by an ever-greater knowledge of environmental effects, the UK has now legislated for net zero carbon by 2050 -- and there...

"This project will use full size, 12m, single deck buses operating at Level 4 autonomy, providing a pilot bus service, in all weathers, using a 14 mile each way route between Fife and Edinburgh including crossing the Forth Road Bridge. This exciting and challenging project will provide a world leading demonstration of UK autonomous vehicle capability at a...

"AMPLiFII 2 is aimed to take the results of the successfully delivered Amplifii project (in the form of a modular, scalable, flexible battery architecture for deployment on low to medium volume vehicle platforms) and accelerate their integration into vehicle products for JLR, JCB, Ariel and ADL. It will take the manufacturing technology developed during A...

This project will deliver a truly zero operational emission bus with an optimised hydrogen fuel cell electric range extended powertrain. Significantly reducing the size of the battery to minimise weight and using a low power fuel cell to reduce costs, providing the optimum system with regards, range, shift duration, cost and weight. Led by Arcola Energy a...

To improve resource demand forecasting on New Product Development projects utilising a novel approach to predictive modelling.

Williams Hybrid Power (WHP), supported by GKN Land Systems, have developed a hybrid system to regenerate braking energy on city buses utilising their Gyrodrive system with a high speed flywheel originally developed for Le Mans Prototypes KERS technology. To date this development work has shown the fuel savings in excess of 25% for the bus operators. In th...

Artemis Intelligent Power, Alexander Dennis Limited and Lothian Buses will jointly develop and demonstrate a new system based on Artemis’s Digital Displacement® hydraulic technology that will significantly improve the efficiency and reduce the emissions of vehicles such as buses that operate in urban environments. The system will allow more optimal sizing...

We plan to develop and integrate three complementary novel technologies and demonstrate their application to noise and vibration cancellation. They are: a novel highly responsive, audio bandwidth combined sensor/actuator and associated "local echo canceller" for both sensing the noise and simultaneously cancelling it; novel moulded composite panels with t...