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Ariel Electric Limited

Homepage - Ariel Motor Company

road, off-road, track wherever you go, go in your ariel Atom Nomad ace

CRN
02654803
Founded
1991
Age
34

Overview

Legal name
ARIEL ELECTRIC LIMITED
Region
South West England
Registered address
ARIEL WORKS
YEOVIL ROAD
CREWKERNE
ENGLAND
TA18 7NR
Insolvency history
No

Corporate ownership

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Latest accounts

Financial period: 1 Jun 2023 to 31 May 2024

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Turnover
Unknown
Profit / Loss
Unknown
Employees
1

Company events

Reference milestones and recent Companies House filing stream events.

5 events
28 Feb
2027

Accounts due

Accounts Due

Next accounts due date

07 Jun
2026

Confirmation statement due

Confirmation Due

Next confirmation statement due date

31 May
2025

Accounts filed

Accounts

Last accounts made up date

24 May
2025

Confirmation statement filed

Confirmation

Last confirmation statement made up date

16 Oct
1991

Incorporated

Inception

Company registered at Companies House

Public funding

8 awards
First funded
2015
Funded years
2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020
Age at first award
23 years

Projects

2020 Feasibility Studies Lead participant

Ariel C19 R&D Recovery Plan

1 Jun 2020 to 30 Nov 2020

Awarded
£250,000
Total cost £250,000

no public description

2019 Collaborative R&D

AMPERE - Additive Manufacturing for Power-dense Electric motor Enhancements

1 Sep 2019 to 31 Mar 2022

Awarded
£150,178
Total cost £214,539

This project aims to utilise Additive Manufacturing (AM) to address the key issues with current electric motor design to deliver step changes in power density. The consortium will build upon the existing class-leading motor architectures from Equipmake and utilise targeted cooling of rotor and stator components. HiETA bring their expertise in thermal mana...

2018 Collaborative R&D

AMPLiFII-2

1 Feb 2018 to 31 Jul 2020

Awarded
£785,872
Total cost £1,122,673

"AMPLiFII 2 is aimed to take the results of the successfully delivered Amplifii project (in the form of a modular, scalable, flexible battery architecture for deployment on low to medium volume vehicle platforms) and accelerate their integration into vehicle products for JLR, JCB, Ariel and ADL. It will take the manufacturing technology developed during A...

2016 Collaborative R&D

Interjet RR - Complete Low Carbon Adaptive and Interactive Low Rolling Resistance and Aerodynamics System

1 Oct 2016 to 31 Dec 2018

Awarded
£110,125
Total cost £157,321

The Eco low Rolling resistance tyre or EcoRR, project is a follow on from a successful IDP8 Proof of Concept project called EcoRR. The project focus is a tyre which can adapt it’s profile and stiffness dynamically, allowing it to operate in a very low rolling resistance mode, or in a performance grip mode when cornering or braking/accelerating. Proof of c...

2016 Feasibility Studies

Lightweight Innovative Flexible Technology (LIFT)

1 Mar 2016 to 28 Feb 2017

Awarded
£25,132
Total cost £35,903

LIFT (Lightweight Innovative Flexible Technology) is an exciting one year feasibility project that will investigate a completely new and highly disruptive lightweight automotive suspension system concept. The project partners will make use of the latest materials and structures to combine the necessary elasticity and damping properties with durability and...

2015 SME Support Lead participant

Ariel Ltd (add on to 102490)

1 Dec 2015 to 31 Mar 2016

Awarded
£1,500
Total cost £1,500

Awaiting Public Project Summary

2015 Collaborative R&D

Automated Module-to-pack Pilot Line For Industrial Innovation - AMPLiFII

1 Nov 2015 to 31 Oct 2017

Awarded
£318,818
Total cost £455,453

Awaiting Public Summary

2015 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

HIPERCAR - High Performance Carbon Reduction Sports Car

1 Apr 2015 to 30 Sep 2017

Awarded
£734,499
Total cost £1,224,165

HIPERCAR (High Perforfance Carbon Reduction) . A collaborative research and development project investigating the creation of a low volume ultra high performance production sports car with zero and low emissions, achieved through advanced hybrid components and systems, using and expanding a UK technology led supply chain.

Product types

Collaborative R&D Feasibility Studies SME Support