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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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? …
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 …
In just over a week’s time UK Trade and Investment along with the Department for Business Innovation and Skills, Advanced Propulsion Centre, and Innovate UK will head out to Japan to the largest automotive technology conference in Asia for automotive …
UK businesses are well placed to take advantage of the growing global demand for low emission cars and energy efficient vehicles. In 2014, one in four electric vehicles bought in Europe was built in the UK, yet these new technologies take …
I’m excited about this year’s CENEX LCV 2015 (low carbon vehicle) event as it’s a great opportunity to celebrate the success of low carbon vehicle developments over the past year and more, as well as a look forward to new …
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