Vehicle Futures Hub
The Vehicle Futures Hub is an academic research hub at Imperial with a mission to collaboratively accelerate vehicle technologies for a sustainable future.
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The Vehicle Future Hub (VFH) is a research network at Imperial delivering cutting-edge research on future vehicle technologies. The hub’s key focus is to accelerate research, innovation and technological development in vehicles through collaborative, cross-sectoral efforts. Our large research network comprises of several academic experts with backgrounds in transport, mobility, and vehicle innovation. We strongly believe in the power of a systems engineering approach and are passionate about creating a technology that are sustainable, safe, and beneficial to society.
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Driving cross-collaboration across multiple vehicle sectors
We define vehicle as anything that moves from A to B. Our research applications span from small drones all the way up to large satellites. The following sectors are key priorities to help enable sector wide transformation for a sustainable future:
- Ultra Light Duty Vehicles
- Passenger Road Vehicles
- Heavy Duty and Off-Road Vehicles
- Maritime and Shipping
- Aerospace
- Rail
Focusing on transformative innovation
The Vehicle Futures Hub is focussing on impactful research that has a number of benefits to society. We are driving research that can be commercially exploited, focussing on large programmes and building consortiums and networks - driving the collaborative, cross-sector innovation required for a step-change in the future of the transport and mobility industry.
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