A collaborative project involving specialist UK-based companies and academia to develop, localise and industrialise the next generation of EV technology for existing and future vehicles produced by London Electric Vehicle Company (LEVC). Building on the success of the current ‘eCity’ technology that has already helped to reduce over 30,000 tonnes of CO2, investment in this new EV technology ensures that LEVC will continue to lead the development of innovative green mobility products.

"The car industry is set to undergo a fundamental change as the deployment of EVs is expected to continue to show double digit growth, with multiple new market entrants, encouraged further by clean air initiatives from 2025 to reinforce trends. Additionally, greater automation and the prospect of the driverless car is looming, where from 2020- 2030 onwards initial offerings from major OEMs are expected. EVs and Level 4 &5 Fully Autonomous Vehicles (AV) will utilise Regenerative Braking Systems (RBS) which introduces a fundamentally new method of decelerating the vehicle. This means the need to convert kinetic into thermal energy is significantly reduced and foundation brakes can therefore, can be fundamentally re-designed. Right now, the vast majority of cars use braking components (calipers and discs) made from heavy grey cast iron -the material of choice for the last 80 years and deployed on almost all cars. The only alternative is carbon ceramic technology -- extremely expensive, taking months and vast amounts of energy to manufacture. **Full-Stop** offers the market a third alternative, -a viable system that is far lighter than cast iron but with matching performance in all industry standard tests, but also with comparable cost, -with a simple manufacturing process that's fast and clean. Full-Stop utilises the latest advances in high temperature tolerant composite materials, to deliver a foundation braking system (Callipers/discs and pads) with a 60% weight saving, whist still performing to the highest rating for these safety-critical components. **Full- Stop** brings together two preceding Innovate-UK initiatives -- 1) BRAKETHRU, a 2yr program focused on the composite brake disc, where a new disc architecture was born and is now being patented. 2) CABTEC -- a short study focused on developing polymer composite calipers and lightweight brake pads, where feasibility had been demonstrated and a first prototype produced by project end (March-2018). **The Full --Stop** objective is to raise the TRL level and prepare for commercialisation. Whilst the BRAKETHRU outcomes are extremely encouraging, a more extensive longer term testing programme is required, along with a whole raft of OEM-specific, and environmental testing in order to establish performance under all feasible conditions together with demonstrating the scalability to other vehicle types, and investigate noise performance, corrosion resistance and other desirable commercial aspects. CABTEC needs to progress into a full R&D program involving several more iterations of the current composite calliper prototype, and a full on-vehicle test programme."

The London Taxi Corporation (LTC) is embarking on a wider project to deliver a series of light-weight, zero-emission capable, range extending vehicles. The new vehicle design, with improved driver ergonomics, will be configured to meet onerous duty-cycle needs. The initial market will be the UK, to meet targets for de-carbonising transport operations (e.g. TFL), Europe & globally thereafter. The key part of the project is to develop the hybrid supply chain within the UK. LTC will work with SMEs and the RTO HSSMI to develop the supply chain capability such that more value added operations can be re-shored to the UK. LTC will host an LTC-supplier co-development space in which LTC and partners will develop the capabilities for low carbon hybrid powertrains. The project aims to support the involved SMEs to become capable of not only selling to LTC but to export to other OEMs nationally and internationally.”