H2 Clipper selected for accelerator programme

The company’s 21^st century airship is designed for transporting pure hydrogen from where it is least costly to produce to markets where clean energy is most needed, and for enabling a 100% carbon-free method of transporting freight and other cargo 7 – 10 times faster than by ship, truck, or rail, and at a 70% savings over traditional air transport. The company already has developed a significant body of design and intellectual property assets, heavily relying upon Dassault Systèmes’ CATIA software applications. With its admission into the 3DEXPERIENCE Lab accelerator programme, the H2 Clipper team will now have an opportunity to dramatically expand its use of software applications from Dassault Systèmes. H2 Clipper anticipates completing a detailed design and construction of a prototype to fly in 2024, with the goal of flying its first full-sized airship in 2027.

According to Frédéric Vacher, Head of Innovation at Dassault Systèmes, companies like H2 Clipper are selected for the accelerator programme by demonstrating significant technological breakthroughs with the greatest potential to positively impact and transform society in alignment with one or more Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as outlined by the UN under its 2030 vision.

As a participant, H2 Clipper’s senior leadership team, project managers, designers and engineers will have full access to its own cloud-based virtual environment on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, Dassault Systèmes’ robust platform of integrated design, engineering, simulation, and data intelligence applications, to continue digitally developing its airship, as well as benefit from high-level access to Dassault Systèmes' worldwide network of customers, partners, and technology collaborators, and, when applicable, mentoring and expertise.

Since filing its first patent in 2008 (granted in 2012), the company’s work has been motivated by its longstanding belief that significant green hydrogen production and use is critical to any successful plan to transition key portions of the global economy off fossil fuel and into renewable energy. As more hydrogen projects are announced globally, there is a growing appreciation among leading analysts that one of the biggest challenges will be how to efficiently transport, distribute, and store hydrogen.

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