Aston Martin Lagonda Limited

PIVOT will revolutionise the global aluminium casting industry whilst changing the look, performance and environmental impact of future automotive solutions. Casting is the most complex of manufacturing techniques and, as the automotive industry continues to seek solutions for mass reduction (especially for EVs), it has become the most important. PIVOT re...

Project ELEVATION (Electric Lightweight Vehicle Platform and Digital Toolchain) is a six-partner collaborative R&D project led by Aston Martin Lagonda with Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC), Expert Tooling & Automation, Creative Composites, Fuzzy Logic Studio and WMG, University of Warwick. Project ELEVATION will accelerate the development of a luxury...

Development of ever lighter vehicle bodies will increase efficiency and environmental performance of all Aston Martin vehicles through reduced vehicle mass, and offers opportunity for increased range and improved attributes of electrified products. Mass reduction is a critical element to achieving these improved vehicle emissions and efficiency. Replacing...

"The Hybrid Battery Optimisation (HBO) project will develop a novel type of high-performance hybrid energy storage system (HESS) with higher power and energy storage capability per weight than existing alternatives. Existing energy storage systems for hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) are typically based on a single type of electrochemical energy storage dev...

"This project is focused on the development of unique technically advanced high performance e-motors and inverters that exceed currently available best in class standards. It will be undertaken by hofer powertrain UK with UK collaborators, supporting application in future high performance vehicle programmes for world leading UK based vehicle manufacturers...

"Key challenges for effective battery pack design include increasing energy/power density and understand/mitigating degradation. Energy and power density are heavily linked to the system design with effective thermal management defining power limits as well as the rate of degradation. Thus, there is an urgent need for tools which assist engineers in the d...

Led by Williams Advanced Engineering, a consortium including Aston Martin Lagonda, Unipart Powertrain Applications, Warwick Manufacturing Group, National Composites Centre, Coventry University, Aspire Engineering and Productiv, will address the need for high performance electric vehicle (EV) batteries by: 1) realising a novel flexible battery technology w...

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Unipart Eberspächer Exhaust Systems (UEES), Aston Martin Lagonda Limited (AML), JSE Limited (JSE) and Coventry University (CU) recently completed a Niche Vehicle Networks CR&D project to create an ultra-light-weight exhaust by using hand welded thin-gauge material, reducing part count and exploring the boundaries of high grade stainless steel and manufact...

New paint production processes in the automative industry have the potential to be much more cost and materials efficient but require higher levels of process monitoring than are currently available. With its terahertz technology, TeraView Ltd has demonstrated the offline ability to rapidly measure simultaneously several coating layers in a non-contact ma...

Carbon fibre reinforced plastics (CFRP) in volume production for the mainstream automotive sector have, to date, been limited by perceived high raw material cost, ineffective design and labour intensive manufacture.This project aims to facilitate an increase in the use of CFRP and other high-performance composites in selected components by optimising auto...

Carbon fibre composites offer the potential to significantly reduce vehicle weight, and thereby reduce emissions and fuel consumption. However, current manufacturing processes for these advanced materials are labour intensive, costly and produce high levels of waste. Aston Martin has pioneered a highly automated preforming process which has demonstrated h...