Lyra Electronics Limited

There is an urgent global need to meet net zero targets and commercialise electric mobility. However, while 10% of cars globally are electric, (including the UK), only 5% of motorbikes are electric. In the UK the volume is closer to 0.1% (~1.2m) e-bikes. Primary reasons for the slow uptake of e-bikes is that cost and performance do not match or improve on...

TransPLANT is an initiative to train experienced mechanical engineers such that they can apply their engineering knowledge and experience to power electronics engineering. This project is a precursor to a training programme and will target senior managers of engineering companies to explain to them that the fundamental concepts or power electronics design...

Jaguar Land Rover requires the development of cutting-edge electrified propulsion technologies to remain globally competitive. This aligns to the strategy for all new Jaguar Land Rover models to have an electrified option from 2020\. Jaguar Land Rover has created a consortium of world-class academic and industry partners to create a state-of-the-art highl...

Accelerated Technologies for Future Battery Electric Vehicles (@FutureBEV) will ensure competitive powertrains in function and costs and enable UK technology transformation to zero emission mobility. Two premium automotive global companies, BMW and McLaren Applied join forces to bring together a development team to include Custom Interconnect Limited (CIL...

Gallium Nitride (GaN) is arguably the most promising material to replace silicon in power electronics applications in the 650V market sector. This sector is worth multi-billion with applications ranging from power supplies, power factor correction, AC-DC converters, wireless charging to inverters in electric vehicles. Power systems based on GaN are lighte...

Jaguar Land Rover demands the development of cutting edge electrified propulsion technologies to remain globally competitive. This aligns to and sustains the strategy for all new Jaguar Land Rover models to have an electrified option from 2020. Jaguar Land Rover have created a consortium of world class academic and industrial partners to create a state of...

This £2.44m 2.5-year project, led by ULEMCo, will deliver an operational prototype zero emission ambulance, for Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) based on taking the current TRL3 level feasibility study for use of a fuel cell range extension (FC Rx) power module on a OEM EV, along with light-weighting, base vehicle modifications and innovative power elect...

Transport is vital to our economy and way of life. For decades, internal combustion engine vehicles have delivered great economic and social success, but more lately require legislative changes to improve air quality for health. Driven by an ever-greater knowledge of environmental effects, the UK has now legislated for net zero carbon by 2050 -- and there...

Public description Most vehicles run on fossil fuels like petrol or diesel. Their exhaust gases are responsible for most of the carbon dioxide (associated with global warming) and particulate emissions (that can cause athsma) in the UK at present. Making these vehicles electrically driven moves all emissions away from the tailpipe of the vehicle, and if r...

"The high-cost of electric powertrains is limiting the speed of uptake of electric and hybrid-electric vehicles. This project aims to deliver a fully-integrated e-axle (power electronics, electrical machine and gearbox) which will beat UK Automotive Council 2025 cost targets for these technologies and be suitable for UK manufacture. This will simultaneous...

Currently, battery technology represents the major bottleneck to widespread uptake of electric vehicles. Range Extender devices, which combine an internal combustion engine with a generator, provide a vital medium-term solution to reducing tailpipe emissions and facilitate the transition to an electric vehicle infrastructure. There is an industry-wide tre...

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...