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Vantage Power Named 2015 Inventor of the Year

Vantage Power has been named 2015’s Autodesk Inventor of the Year!

Members of the worldwide Autodesk community voted for Vantage Power, who is solving the problem of harmful pollution from diesel buses with its retrofit hybrid power engines. For more than eight years, Autodesk has identified the most innovative customers from among hundreds of thousands of designers and engineers that use Autodesk manufacturing tools and spotlighted their work via the “Inventing the Future” monthly series. At year’s end, online voting takes place to determine which of the featured customers will become the Inventor of the Year.

Buses serve as the transportation backbone for cities all over the world, but the diesel variety are also responsible for large quantities of pollutant that contribute disproportionately to air pollution, health and quality of life. The transportation industry has introduced hybrid buses to help reduce emissions and cut fuel costs, but purchasing a hybrid bus at a price more than 50 percent higher than diesel equivalents hasn’t proven popular. That’s where Vantage Power’s hybrid powertrain for buses come into play.

Vantage Power designs and manufactures retrofit hybrid powertrains for buses, enabling operators to reduce their fuel consumption and emissions at a fraction of the cost of purchasing new hybrid buses. Vantage Power’s product has been recognized by the industry with several awards, and backed by four customers who will soon be receiving the first production units.

Based in London, the company leverages Autodesk Product Design Suite, featuring Autodesk Inventor 3D design software, provided by the Autodesk Entrepreneur Impact Program to develop the B320 System. The self-contained hybrid powertrain retrofits into existing bus models and reduces fuel consumption and emissions by more than 40 percent.

“We’re thrilled to have been voted Inventor of the Year for 2015, and it’s great to see our sustainable and commercially beneficial solutions recognized by the Autodesk manufacturing community”, said Alex Schey, Vantage Power CEO.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Alexander Schey .