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Why apply to the new Women in Innovation competition? Pauline Dawes
Who are you and what do you do? I am Pauline Dawes, CEO/ Founder of SOMI Trailers, a disruptive new technology that replaces 4 truck journeys by three, globally.
Automotive
The future of mobility
While transport hasn’t traditionally been the sexiest of sectors, it does touch just about every corner of our lives. The UK transport network moves an extraordinary number of people and vast quantities of goods to the places they need to …
The challenge of creating a UK vehicle battery industry
Regulation on the emissions from internal combustion engines, actual and planned market disruption from Tesla (and Dyson, Google and others) and technological advances in electric powertrains and batteries are driving a surge of demand for electric vehicles (EVs).
What do we need for electric vehicles to be a success in the UK?
The 2040 trajectory for electric vehicles (EV) With the recent government announcement to ban the sale of conventional internal combustion engine vehicles from 2040 the transport stage has now been set for significant disruptive change. 2040 is a long way …
The Faraday Challenge – part of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund
Future generations will be using vehicles, which have batteries as their primary source of energy. They will be able to charge, travel, discharge to the grid and recharge at will. There will need to be completely different business models developed around how …
What will cars be like in the future?
Do you remember the film Total Recall, when Arnie jumps into a taxi driven by a robot called Johnny? Or how about the flying-through-time DeLorean from the Back to the Future movies? Science fiction, right? Well, although time travel isn’t …
Building a Connected & Autonomous Vehicles community
There is a huge amount of activity in the UK focused on Connected & Autonomous Vehicles. UK is a great source of innovative minds (supported by world leading universities) and has a fantastic engineering community, having delivered to the world, …
Low carbon vehicles – the future of automotive sector
It was great to be back at the CENEX Low Carbon Vehicles 2016 conference and exhibition last week. I was at the very first LCV event back in 2008, at that time myself and Michael Hurwitz from the Department for …
Autonomous vehicles: the most disruptive technology ever for the global automotive industry?
Could autonomous vehicles, either fully or partially, be the most significant disruptive technology in the automotive sector’s 100-plus years’ history? Will we really be telling our grandchildren that, yes, they really did let humans drive cars once upon a time? …
Can your business or innovation help save the UK truckloads of C02?
Heavy-goods vehicles and vans contribute 31% of the UK’s domestic transport greenhouse gas emissions. That’s a big slice. Just imagine if the van delivering your supermarket weekly shop was zero C02, or those HGVs you passed on the motorway weren’t …