Supermarket Asda, startup HVS receive UK hydrogen self-driving lorry grant

By Nick CareyLONDON (Reuters) – A consortium including Hydrogen truck startup HVS and supermarket chain Asda said on Wednesday it had been awarded a 6.6 million pound ($8.1 million) UK government grant to develop autonomous hydrogen heavy goods vehicles.The project is one of seven backed by Britain’s Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) to showcase the potential of self-driving vehicle technology and must demonstrate a sustainable commercial service by 2025.Glasgow-based Hydrogen Vehicle Systems (HVS) leads the “Hub2Hub” consortium that will produce two prototype self-driving hydrogen fuel cell vehicles – one with a driver cab and one without – for testing starting in 2024.The third member of the consortium is UK self-driving technology firm Fusion Processing.”This project will feed back to the government’s understanding of what the legislation should be to introduce…

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