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The **SERRMA project** (Sustainable Energy Resilience in Rural Maritime Applications) aims to tackle one of the biggest challenges in maritime decarbonisation: the lack of high-power charging infrastructure in smaller and remote ports. These locations often have limited grid capacity, making it difficult or impossible to electrify vessels, equipment, or p...

PULSE (Power electronics Upscale for Localisation and Sustainable Electrification) will bring to market new, UK developed, power-electronics products and a dedicated make-like-production pilot line. Protean Electric will develop an 800V SiC Twinverter, 800V in-wheel-motor, and an integrated drive unit. Unipart will bring decades of advanced manufacturing ...

In LEAD (Low Energy Autonomous Digital) Factory we have put together a consortium containing the world's leading companies in their relevant disciplines, combining their innovation strengths to allow us to create a new method of manufacturing. This unique process will create functional plastics from plant waste, converting them into usable, functional pol...

RaRE will establish an end to end supply chain for recycled rare-earth ancillary motors. Building on work completed at the University of Birmingham to devise a method to extract magnets from waste electronics the process will be scaled and the material re-processed back into new magnetic materials at pilot scale by Hypromag to demonstrate the quality of m...

Battery technology across the broad range of challenging battery electric vehicle (BEV) applications is yet to reach a level of maturation enabling significant commonality of designs and components. As well as being isolated from battery design and development (D&D), the embryonic UK and global Tier 1/Tier 2 supply chain is highly fragmented, and fails to...

The fuel rail is a pressure reservoir which feeds fuel injectors with fuel from a high pressure fuel pump, it works in a very demanding environment experiencing high cycle fatigue due to high frequency pressure fluctuation. The Optipress project will innovate fuel rails design by connecting design tools for FEA, distortion prediction and fatigue design to...

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...

The project will develop a new highly innovative lightweight exhaust system for forced induction diesel and petrol automotive vehicles. This project will deliver cost-effective materials and manufacturing technology, including metrology and CAE methods to enable a step change reduction of 50% of the mass of an exhaust system. It will provide innovative so...

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...

An innovative research project led by Jaguar Land Rover, ALIVE6, - will apply new technologies to the Ingenium engine family, striving to maximize fuel efficiency whilst maintaining the in-vehicle feel Jaguar Land Rover customers expect. The collaboration with Grainger and Worrall, Automotive Insulations and Nifco will research low friction cylinder bore ...

The aim of the VExPro project is to optimise the throughput of multi-disciplinary and multi-physics optimisation problems and validate the methodology against current prototype development approaches for the production of a lightweight exhaust system. It will encompass areas of thermo-mechanical, mechanical, acoustics, vibration, manufacturing and light-w...

The ACTIVE project is a collaborative R&D project that accelerates the introduction of advanced low carbon technologies into main stream vehicle applications targeting very substantial CO2 savings. This is a UK centred project focused on the Engineering skills needed to develop and apply these technologies and aims at increasing the UK's capabilities in t...