Aspire Engineering Limited

As the Automotive sector rapidly moves towards electrification there are significant barriers to OEMs and tier 1 suppliers investing into electric motor manufacturing capability, these involve concerns over market adoption rates but also the technical risk and commercial funds required to build the capability. Project PIMMS addresses these concerns throug...

Ricardo has spent ten years developing magnet free, sustainable, synchronous-reluctance, traction motor technology, which retains the attributes of magnet-rich motors. As part of this, Ricardo is completing the DER "UK-Alumotor 1" supply chain development project, which has delivered manufacturing learning for aluminium windings, low wastage stator manufa...

The Bellerophon Rapid Assembly and Disassembly (BRAD) project will deliver a quad bike powered by maintainable and reusable batteries, with a concept manufacturing process which reduces manufacture and remanufacture time, providing cost reduction for efficient battery system assembly thus providing an electric powertrain in a market which is dominated by ...

UK-Alumotor, supported by Driving the Electric Revolution (part of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund), will develop a dedicated supply chain to manufacture a patented electric machine (e-machine) which will exploit UK-based high-value manufacturing technology. The e-machine will leverage specialist material, transferring technology developed within t...

The CICERO (Classic Car ElectRificatiOn) project addresses 2nd life opportunities for EV battery packs that pushes beyond the current state of art. The key objectives are: (i) develop a digital vehicle configurator and digital-twin of a Classic/Heritage vehicle, (ii) create a disassembly process designed and optimised via a digital twin. (iii) address log...

Across all electric vehicle applications - including fully battery powered electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids and fuel cell variants - the battery is critical to overall vehicle cost and performance, especially over the full lifecycle. However, despite Lithium-ion continuing to dominate the EV domain, no single cell chemistry is optimised across all of th...

The partners will develop a winding machine for aluminium wires. The winding machine will be developed and provide the first UK supply chain solution for manufacturing aluminium coils. Coil winding is a critical component of eMachine manufacture and is not provided by any UK manufacturer. UK based companies of eMachines have to purchase winding machines f...

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, ...

Project DETAIN brings together the expertise of Unipart Logistics, Aspire Engineering, HORIBA MIRA, and Instrumentel, to develop an 'intelligent' high voltage battery storage solution to mitigate the risks associated with thermal runaway. The consortium have an ambition to use intelligent systems to DETect and contAIN thermal runaway: DETAIN. Project DETA...

The main motivation for the BATREV Technology Feasibility Study (TFS) is addressing the business need for remanufacturing warranty-return & damaged/worn/EoL Electric Vehicle Batteries, (EVBs), the variety & quantities of which are increasing exponentially as vehicle manufacturers compete fiercely in the EV market. The main states-of-the art address high-v...

"Project VALUABLE's key objectives are to develop commercially viable metrology and test processes as well as new supply chain concepts for recycling, reuse and remanufacturing of automotive lithium-ion batteries to create a complete End-of-Life (EoL) supply chain network within the UK. The consortium's vision is to 1) increase the value-add of the batter...

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...