Alexander Dennis’s Enviro100AEV electric autonomous bus has won Vehicle of the Year at the Self-Driving Industry Awards 2025.
The vehicle received the designation during the Cars of the Future award show at the Turner Contemporary art gallery in Margate, England.
The vehicle is currently being utilised in ongoing UK Government-funded projects including Connector, which will see the bus used to operate a trial passenger service in Cambridge, and AutonoBus, where it iill perform controlled track testing at SAE Level 4 under the supervision of a trained safety driver located in a remote control room.
Measuring 8.5 metres in length; the bus offers seating for up to 26 passengers and has been equipped with Fusion Processing Ltd’s CAVStar® automated drive system, which utilises AI and high-performance computing with radar, lidar and optical camera systems.
Jamie Wilson, Head of Concepts & Advanced Engineering at Alexander Dennis, said:This award for our Enviro100AEV is a fantastic recognition of the groundbreaking work we are doing to explore the technical and commercial opportunities for connected and automated vehicle technology in buses.
This has been made possible by the technology partnership with our friends at Fusion Processing, whose automated drive system is at the heart of the exciting advances we look forward to continuing to demonstrate to the self-driving vehicle industry over the coming months and years.
