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Rare Earth Elements (REEs) are essential for the Rare Earth Permanent Magnets (REPMs), which are required for e-motors and additional components. REE supply is volatile and can disrupt commercial ecosystems. The UK has limited natural REE resources but does boast successful industries reliant on REEs. The only realistic route for an insulated, sustainable...

Ionic Technologies, Less Common Metals (LCM) and Ford are seeking to establish a demonstration circular supply chain for Rare Earth Elements (REEs) in the UK, by utilising innovative technologies to create high specification magnets containing 100% recycled REEs for use in Electrical Vehicles (EVs). Production of critical minerals of all kinds is expected...

Currently, UK EV drive manufacturing uses Laser welding as a 'go-to' high-productivity joining process for copper and aluminium components. However, laser welding has shown many short comings, owing to the fundamental limitation of adsorption of laser energy into copper material, and thus greatly complicating the manufacturing processes of PEMD devices. T...

Hydrogen fuel cell propulsion is key in supporting UK Net Zero transport policies, as demonstrated by the Automotive Council roadmaps. Fuel-cell Commercial Vehicle Generation 2.0 (FCVGen2.0) is a Ford-led industrial research project that pilots the introduction of Fuel Cell Hybrid Electric Vehicles (FCHEV) to the Light Commercial Vehicle (LCV) sector, aim...

Composite materials have been used for decades and have found their way into almost every industrial sector, mainly due to their outstanding material properties and lightweight benefits. Today, 2.5 million tonnes of composite material are used globally in the renewable energy sector. It is estimated that there are 12-15 tonnes of glass fibre reinforced pl...

In the drive to Net Zero the use of Hydrogen can play an important role in future UK transport. Whilst the majority of work looking at using hydrogen as a fuel for vehicles has been focused on fuel cell there is the potential to use hydrogen as fuel within a conventional internal combustion engine as a means of ensuring rapid market penetration of a ZEV i...

eSHADOW ~ Electrified Structural Hybrid Automotive Developments for Optimised Weight eSHADOW is a Ford led collaborative industry research project that aims to focus on the development of hybrid material structural engineering tools to promote lightweight design and verification for Product Development processes. The research will be conducted with a tota...

"The ViVID project is a Ford led collaborative industry research project that aims to focus on the development of digital engineering tools to promote model based systems design and verification for the Virtual Product Development process. The research will be conducted with a total of three UK industry based partners and an academic partner, who will dev...