Vision Marine Technologies and Avikus, an HD Hyundai Company, Begin NEUBOAT Integration Partnership for E-Motion™ Electric Propulsion

Vision Marine Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: VMAR ; TSXV: VMAR) ("Vision Marine" or the "Company") today announced that it has begun a technology partnership with Avikus Co., Ltd. ("Avikus"), an HD Hyundai subsidiary specializing in intelligent navigation and operator-assist technology, to evaluate the integration of Avikus's NEUBOAT capabilities with Vision Marine's twin-motor E-Motion™ propulsion architecture. The program will use the STERK 31E as its first validation platform and is intended to establish an integration framework connecting intelligent navigation, vessel controls, and Vision Marine's high-voltage electric propulsion technology. The collaboration represents a step in Vision Marine's strategy to advance E-Motion™ beyond electric propulsion toward a broader integrated vessel technology architecture connecting propulsion, steering, helm controls, safety systems, and intelligent navigation. Subject to successful integration and validation, planned NEUBOAT functionality includes object recognition, route planning, smart autopilot, adaptive cruise, collision-avoidance assistance, and auto-docking assistance. Avikus's technology combines camera- and LiDAR-based perception, object-recognition hardware, vessel-control interfaces, and an integrated user display. Under the partnership, Avikus has provided the initial NEUBOAT operator-assist and auto-docking system for integration and validation on the STERK 31E, and its engineering team is providing related technical support. The companies' engineering teams are working jointly, with Vision Marine's engineers having performed substantial vessel-side engineering, system-interface development and integration work involving the STERK 31E, its twin E-Motion™ propulsion architecture, helm controls, and steering systems. The parties are proceeding collaboratively on a non-exclusive basis, without a formal written agreement or binding commitments, and the partnership is intended to continue beyond the initial integration and IBEX presentation. The companies are developing and validating an integration approach intended to make Avikus technology available as an integrated option for customers on other compatible twin-motor vessels. For future customer orders, Vision Marine would acquire the applicable Avikus system for integration, enabling each company to commercialize its respective technology. Any future offering would remain subject to vessel compatibility, customer demand, and commercial arrangements for future orders. As part of Vision Marine's ongoing technology-development activities, the current phase is focused on generating engineering and validation knowledge and is not expected to materially affect the Company's current operations or financial position. Vision Marine believes the increasing convergence of propulsion, digital controls, perception, and intelligent navigation creates an opportunity for electric propulsion systems to become more deeply integrated into the overall vessel architecture. By combining Vision Marine's twin E-Motion™ propulsion architecture with Avikus's intelligent-navigation capabilities, the companies intend to develop and validate interfaces connecting advanced perception and navigation functionality with propulsion, steering, helm controls, and other vessel-control systems. The existing twin-motor architecture provides Vision Marine and Avikus with a real-world platform on which to develop, calibrate and validate system architecture, control communication, and the interfaces among the NEUBOAT sys...